I like dark meat so I seldom buy whole chickens. But I know how to clean & pick one straight from the pen after mother killed it. I cut up a whole chicken by the KFC method: cut chicken in half, cut that half in half, cut out pully bone, cut off wings with some of breast meat with it, cut off leg from thigh with back attached. You get 9 pieces that way - 4 dark, 5 white meat.