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About 4 fingers worth I'd guess... ~2-3"... If it was completely detached that's the correct method.

Huh. Did you make sure there was about 4" of loose skin between the neck and the head right after the break? That's where the blood is supposed to drain into. If there was, I don't know what to tell you to help get the blood out better. One of the reasons I started doing cone and knife...

When I did the broomstick method, I understood that the blood was supposed to drain into the neck cavity, and collect there for later removal. I usually wrapped the bird in my arms in a bath towel, sat in a chair, and pulled on the neck just right to make things quick. Then I'd immediately...

Oh, yeah, I forgot about mentioning that. We try so hard as chicken keepers to contain the blood and mess from butchering, that it didn't occur to me to suggest that. But yeah, that's totally what would happen if a chicken escaped after being dispatched with a hatchet.

By the time the owners get home and see what the dog has done, no blood is going anywhere. It's all dried and congealed. You barely get a tablespoon or two out of a live chicken that is passing on in a kill cone. It coagulates almost immediately in the bucket you collect the scraps in. I...