2026 Workshop | Chickens: Learn To Process Your Own Birds with Yardbird & Matt Wilkinson

2026 Workshop | Chickens: Learn To Process Your Own Birds with Yardbird & Matt Wilkinson

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026

Time: 9:00 AM

location: Warren County Fairgrounds

26 Fairground Rd, Front Royal, VA 22630

The thought of processing a chicken can feel pretty scary, and taking the life of a living creature needs to be done humanely and correctly. Knowing this, Homesteaders of America and Yardbird are offering a hands-on poultry processing workshop.

Presented by Matt Wilkinson, a recognized leader in poultry processing education and who represents Yardbird Poultry Processing Equipment, will slowly walk each workshop participant through a series of well-explained steps that safely and humanely turn each chicken into the foundation for mouth-watering eating experiences.

If you have never learned how to correctly take a living chicken and turn it into a source of food for your family, here is the opportunity to do so. Participate as a family, as a couple, or as an individual in this powerful learning opportunity. Each group will take home their own processed chicken as well as receive a complimentary Yardbird Poultry Processing Apron and Lung Remover, and will walk away with a lifetime of confidence in being able to supply food for themselves and family.

What You Will Learn:

• How to Process Meat Birds Humanely
• How to Use Processing Equipment

What You Will Receive:

• Yardbird butchering apron
• Yardbird lung remover
• 1 butchered chicken to take home

What You Should Bring:

• Cooler for chicken