Canning chickens

I couldn't do half the stuff I do around here if it wasn't for my mother helping me!

I have learned so much about canning from her this summer.

Today we are canning chickens and she has taught me how to cut up a whole chicken into pieces like you get at the grocery store.  Easy, easy, easy!!  I am currently writing this from a stool in my kitchen watching the pressure cooker gauge....

So we prepared our jars....(sent them through the dishwasher) and started boiling the chicken pieces.

We are canning the chicken with the bones.  

We packed the jars as full as we could!  Sometimes only getting one chicken in a jar, and sometimes a little more.

Packing the jars.....

Boiling the chicken.....

Cutting up the pieces....

I had to have mom hold this so you could see just how big some of these birds are.....

This is just the thigh from one of the birds!!!

The drumstick!!!

Well a long afternoon and evening ahead.....but I'll be looking forward to this chicken all year long! 

It smells amazing!!