Chicken Parts Whenever I read a post, I am never quite sure if the pieces of chicken being referred to are the same pieces I am thinking of. I worked for many years in a poutry processing plant and also have a decent understading of other animal butchery. The leg consists of the drum stick and the thigh...attached. It is one piece. When you seperate the pieces you have a drum (the lower portion excluding the foot) and a thigh (the upper portion that attaches to the body). If you have an entire leg that still has a portion of the back on it, it is a back-attached leg or a dark meat quarter (sometimes called a Henry VIII leg) . Wings also cause some confusion. A wing has three sections...a drumette/drumlet, a wingette/winglet/bar/flat and a tip/3rd flight. All three pieces still attached is a wing. If there is only two pieces attached you have a tip-removed wing. If you have tip removed wings that have been cut into two sections you have split wings.…