Im sorry for your experiences. It must have been awful. I hope you can find a better method.
Culling - Break Neck Method - BEWARE - NOT A PC JOKE - NOT KIDDING
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Im sorry for your experiences. It must have been awful. I hope you can find a better method.
It was terrible but I have to do 6 more. I swear I have PTSD.
- Feb 18, 2013
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I have often thought that butchering chickens has " changed" me, so I can understand the PTSD thing. You need a very sharp filet knife when you cut off the head so there is no sawing. Drop the head immediately in a bucket and don't look at it. I can get through regular chickens necks with a quick downward pull on neck and swipe with filet knife.
Oh, sorry for that story with your roo! 
They are tough, those guys! I had a pretty old meat bird that I had to cull 2 weeks ago. It was my first time with what I'd call a rooster (he is 4-5 months old). Also, I got him at 4 weeks old, he doesn't like me AT ALL.
Anyway, I put that big guy in the killing cone and tried to cut the jugular with my knife. He moved and managed to exit the cone in about .002 second. He was running all over my lawn with the throat half cut. I FELT SO BAD!!
I guess we all learn from these stories, as horrible as they are.
They are tough, those guys! I had a pretty old meat bird that I had to cull 2 weeks ago. It was my first time with what I'd call a rooster (he is 4-5 months old). Also, I got him at 4 weeks old, he doesn't like me AT ALL.
Anyway, I put that big guy in the killing cone and tried to cut the jugular with my knife. He moved and managed to exit the cone in about .002 second. He was running all over my lawn with the throat half cut. I FELT SO BAD!!
I guess we all learn from these stories, as horrible as they are.
About cutting the whole head off, why do I find this so complicated?
I kind of get where to cut.. but I almost never get it on the first try. I always end up on a vertebra.
From my testing (I remove the head once the bird is dead, not good enough to do it when it is alive), I think we need to cut just below the head. A lot higher than we think we should. Is that right? You are able to do this on a live bird? How do you hold the head? It is pretty small versus the amount of pressure we need on the knife. Since I do it when the bird is dead, I put it on the ground and push the knife down, so it's ratter easy, but in the killing cone the head is just hanging in the air, I don't feel I have enough "grip" to make it work..
I also fight to find the place to cut the neck. I am better for the hip joint, the "knee", the wings, the tail..I get those on first try, but the neck, I don't get it, I always end up on a bone instead of between bones.
I kind of get where to cut.. but I almost never get it on the first try. I always end up on a vertebra.
From my testing (I remove the head once the bird is dead, not good enough to do it when it is alive), I think we need to cut just below the head. A lot higher than we think we should. Is that right? You are able to do this on a live bird? How do you hold the head? It is pretty small versus the amount of pressure we need on the knife. Since I do it when the bird is dead, I put it on the ground and push the knife down, so it's ratter easy, but in the killing cone the head is just hanging in the air, I don't feel I have enough "grip" to make it work..
I also fight to find the place to cut the neck. I am better for the hip joint, the "knee", the wings, the tail..I get those on first try, but the neck, I don't get it, I always end up on a bone instead of between bones
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Thanks for your input. I did just exactly as you suggested and cut higher toward the head so I wasn't going through tough feathers. No picnic but better by far. Now I have 5 more to do, but I'm going to grow them out more. I swear the breeder didn't send me Red Rangers. These guys are 12 and 14 weeks old and they are full of pin feathers and scrawny, though I've been feeding top quality feed their whole lives. They are also dark brown and black, not red.
roborob
Hatching
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Hi,
I realize this is a very late post, but I thought the info might help someone. I read an article (below) where it stated that neck pulling was the most "humane" way to slaughter a chicken, at least according to the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA).
http://www.countrysmallholding.com/poultry/how_to_dispatch_your_poultry_humanely_1_3493349
I am going to try this next time, exsanguination (bleeding out) was horrible. While I didn't have to saw all the way through, I am sure the chicken felt the entire process.
I realize this is a very late post, but I thought the info might help someone. I read an article (below) where it stated that neck pulling was the most "humane" way to slaughter a chicken, at least according to the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA).
http://www.countrysmallholding.com/poultry/how_to_dispatch_your_poultry_humanely_1_3493349
I am going to try this next time, exsanguination (bleeding out) was horrible. While I didn't have to saw all the way through, I am sure the chicken felt the entire process.
rodewarrior
In the Brooder
we wrung their necks. After you whirl it and get some moment you sorta pop you wrist like you're flicking a towel at someone. The head stays in your hand and the body flops to the ground (and all over the ground).
Right on,,, you end up with a hand full of bloody chicken head lol
Right on,,, you end up with a hand full of bloody chicken head lol
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