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Quote: An excellent observation, about the flapping! Now that you mention it, I know exactly what you mean. I hadn't thought of it quite that way, though. Thanks for that insight. I've recently switched to the same method you use, it seems the quickest and therefor most humane to me, too. I...

I recently watched some of the Polyface Farm videos on YouTube, the ones for slaughtering chickens, and eviscerating. I highly recommend both. I'm killing 3 roos this evening, and trying out what I've learned from them. I'll post my results later tonight.

I worked in hospitals and clinical labs for many years. Humor, especially about death and other difficult subjects, is the way medical personnel keep from going nuts, or jumping off a bridge at the end of the shift. It's just a way of dealing with what you see and experience.

I made the mistake of butchering a roo in the kitchen once.... The kitchen looked like a CSI crime scene, and I looked like Dexter Morgan. Never again! Outdoors only. Then I can bring them in after, to finish processing.

Quote: So it just looks worse than it really is for the bird. There's the same amount of flopping & flapping after the chop, but you have the reassurance that if you remove the entire head with one whack, there's really no way the bird could be feeling anything after that. I used to have...

Quote: Silly Rabbit! If it bothers you, stop reading it.

Quote: Then don't let the village idiot have a gun. Leave the rest of us in peace. A rock under the surface of the soil, just lurking there, waiting to cause a disaster, just in exactly the right spot? Good grief. You can always find a potential catastrophe in anything. It's pretty easy...

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Quote: Wow. That's cool. I'll try it. I've tried 'hypnotizing' chickens without success, but I'm always willing to try again. Thanks for posting that.

There seems to be some confusion about the act of shooting a chicken (or other critter). When we raised turkeys, my DH dispatched them by walking up behind them and shooting them in the head. Since he's taller than a turkey, and the turkeys were always standing on the ground, they were not in a...

Cassie and Brunty, thank you. The pruning shears might be a good option for me. I can't speak for the OP, but that's what I've been looking for, a practical suggestion, rather than a bunch of pointless criticism. To whoever asked, the point of using a .22 for that little tiny head is that it...

Well, I am really clumsy. So would you be if you had arthritis, carpal tunnel, and sometimes the joys of trigger finger, another painful and clumsy hand issue. Yet I manage to make some very intricate craft items, garden, cook, (pretty much everything from scratch, and I usually bake my own...

Red Hen, from what I've read, breathing CO2, in the correct proportion, will cause an animal to lose consciousness, like fainting or suddenly passing out. They continue to breathe, so it's not like an asthma attack, or having your airway blocked. They wouldn't know there's no oxygen in what...

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay : Quote: Of course the CO2 kills the bird, but you still have to get the blood out of the bird, just like I said in my post. If you don't get the blood out you have runied your bird. Jim Who said you wouldn't bleed out the bird after it was dead or knocked out? Of...

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay : CO2 has been used as a method to stun an animal, but the bird must still be killed by either removing the head or by exsanguination. We prefer to decapitate the bird by using a hatchet or other appropriate device. Jim I think we all know the bird will have to be...

For those who are afraid of 'gas' leaving harmful residue, CO2 is used to carbonate beverages. If you drink soda pop, you're drinking CO2. You can safely use dry ice in a glass of any beverage, or use it to freeze food. You or your children have probably eaten ice cream or popsicles from a truck...

Quote: Bicarb and hydrogen peroxide do not make lye. I've used this combo many times to make a homemade deodorizer, I've gotten it all over my hands when washing a skunk-sprayed dog with it. It was mildly irritating, just as hydrogen peroxide is, all by itself, but it did not burn my skin, or...

Quote: Emzyyy, could you elaborate on this a little? What does baking soda and hydrogen peroxide produce? I know it fizzes, I've used that combination with a couple of drops of dish soap, it makes a great deodorizer. You can store it, it continues to produce gas and the pressure will build up...

I just want to add, oxygen is a gas. Our atmosphere is made up of a number of gases. We breathe them all. I think the word "gas" tends to freak people out because they associate it with natural gas, propane, nerve gas, cyanide gas, etc. Without gases we'd all suffocate. Tommy was talking about...

Quote: The OP probably read (as I did) that CO2 (which is carbon dioxide, the stuff we exhale, not some exotic poison) would knock a bird out quickly (a breath or two, was what I'd read) so you could slaughter it painlessly. It turns out that this may not be accurate, but I'm sure that's what...