As far as homemade gas chambers go, if one can not stomach "cutting to cull" can they stomach cutting the dead chicken open and pulling his stinking guts out?
Stunning a chicken increases handling stress on the bird and adds more labor to butchering. It might make the human feel better but...
My hatchet seems to stun & kill them at the same time. Or at least they look stunned when their head is still laying on the chopping block with that 1 eye blinking back at me while their body does backflips across the yard. I know they prefer the hatchet because when I take one to the chopping...