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• A few people have asked me about that, so I added a paragraph to the post about it. The time to gut is after the plucking and right after removing the feet, before you start cutting up the chicken--if quartering. If keeping whole chicken, you cut then you're done, no further cutting up. So you don't have to go back to find out, here is what I added: If you plan to keep whole chicken, you're going to get up close and personal now with some chicken butts and pull the guts out and remove organs you may want to keep. We decided to just quarter this batch--cutting out thigh/leg pieces and breasts--so we didn't even gut them. (You can quarter, carefully, without gutting.) Next batch, we'll keep a few whole chickens. I like a few to roast whole through the year. When we do that, I like to seal...
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