Thanks!
I don't know... the neck was snapped all the way and the head was dangling loosely, only attached to the body by soft tissue, so the amount of loose skin was I guess however much there would be with the head completely detached from the spine...
Yeah, that's been my method up until I...
I got it vertical right away, it’s the cutting that didn’t happen as quickly as I’d wanted. On the first rooster, where I cut only after the kicking stopped, and waited 5-10 minutes for the blood to drain, that wasn’t enough to get the blood out of the rest of the body and into the neck. Waiting...
I recently dispatched 4 roosters using a new (for me) method and it made me think of this post, too. I can back up what the others have said, too - the blood coagulates way too quickly. A lot more quickly than I thought it would, in fact! I was quite shocked. My usual method is using a slaughter...