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Any huge pot that can hold water and withstand a flame will do it

We just got the biggest Dutch oven the store had to offer. It wasn't expensive either...although me had it prior to the chickens

We got ours online from a bass pro shop. As I recall it was cheap..

I think we got ours as a fish fryer, but it is the same thing, just comes with different pots...the fish fry pot wouldn't work for chicken scalding, but it is awesome for the chips...since you get the collander basket thing with it... Anyway a turkey deep fryer is the same thing... It is...

We use a large stock pot over a propane fryer thingy...we also use it to make homemade potato chips...not the pot but the propane thing...it definitely works though. Like the largest Dutch oven you can find will also work great.

Wouldn't hitting the bird in the head with a hammer kill it anyway?

Hmm. We have never stunned a bird...that is one thing I like better about the ax than a knife...sometimes after you slit their throat you think they are dead, but they aren't...when we remove their head from their body I know that they are 100% dead. Sometimes the neck cutting just takes too...

That is a good idea about the bottles

We do it caveman style around here..no gloves, no aprons, no raincoats...we end up with blood on the ax log, and some on the table, but there's no like gushing or splurting blood...it's not as bad as I first thought it would be...

I don't have this issue...I hold the chicken and my husband either axes it's head off or we cut their neck...just depends on how we're feeling that day. My first time I couldn't figure out how to get the insides out...so we just cut all the meat off the bones...I can't seem to get trimming it...