Yesterday afternoon we got our supplies all gathered to butcher the rabbit and roosters. I am happy to say this morning that all 7 roosters are in the freezer and the rabbit is in the refrigerator. Thankfully it wasnt as bad as I thought it could have been. My husband did the rabbit first....I wont go into any full details here as there are plenty of instructions online and even videos of how to butcher a rabbit. It was fairly quick and easy though since the fur pulled off like a sweater. Next were the roosters, which my husband went to work on. He got annoyed with the feathers about half way through so i took over. We had done the roosters like we were did the rabbit, kind of peeling the skin and feathers back and off like a sweater. Since these were roosters (not meat birds) and they were 4 month old there was not a whole lot of meat on them. After I got the first bird butchered....I took the wing, leg, thigh and breast meat off we decided to just take the breast meat, leg and thigh off the remaining birds. There was not much meat on the wing and it was a huge hassle trying to get those wing feathers and skin off! I need to get into the chicken coop again and go through the chickens. There are quite a few roosters left and we dont need them all so a few more will have a date with the freezer here in a couple of weeks. Its nice knowing that I can butcher them myself if need be....I figured that I could probably do it but you never know :). My dad and I fished for years together...we used to wager who caught the least fish had to do the cleaning. So I had experience cleaning fish and also doing the plucking of chickens but we had never butchered them this way before. I have to say that I prefer the skinning method! No hot water and yucky smell. Above is a picture of the butchered rabbit in a bag ready for the refrigerator. We are going to the auction this evening so I am planning on cooking it tomorrow. Now I just have to figure out what to make.......hmmmmmm