Thanks, Ted. I'll keep this post for the next time I do it. When I did it (with a very sharp knife), I was able to cut through the skin easily in about the right spot. What I found, however is that the skin was separated from the neck and the jugular is flat against the neck and my cut hadn't...
Last spring we got 10 chicks to augment our flock of 14 layers. As it turns out, 2 of them were cockerels. We decided to keep them anyway, but two things started to happen. The first is that even though we have 22 girls and 2 boys, they tend to gang up on about 6 or 8 of the girls who stopped...