Meet Owen Godbold, my fellow farmer-friend. He’s the fifth of eight siblings – all boys but one. He’s homeschooled, energetic, very humorous, and a chicken-lover. He reveres Joel Salatin and has a vast lore of knowledge concerning poultry and pastures. And he makes cool vlogs!
So since my dad is out of the work-picture with a torn Achilles, Owen stepped up to help out with butchering our family’s meat birds. (See them growing up here and here.)
Here’s his vlog of our chicken-butchering exploits: Renegade chickens included.
Before watching, though, please do realize that this is real footage of butchering. The way we live is often bloody and gutsy, but (as I’ve written before) I feel like this is an ethical way of eating, for us at least. So I invite you to virtually share this serious, thought-provoking part of farming with us: