Personally I have decided Autumn/Winter/Early Spring is the right time.
The associated smells are going to be less, Flies are near non existent, Chicken soup is much more welcome on a cold evening!
It is 18:10 hear in the UK so dinner time my other half is just serving up a Roast Chicken as...
I did my first two Roos at the weekend in as much as these were the first I have killed with the intention to eat them.
I have dispatched a few sickly hens previously but we have always then disposed of the entire bird.
One was a Silver Laced Wyandotte that was developing a case of Wry Tail...