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I rested that mean sucker at least five days I remember, if not more. He never did loosen up. Not frozen at all. I tried to dispatch him with an axe and it went really, really poorly. Never again.

Yep! Not like it flew across the room, but the lid was popped off the side and canted over, ready to fall. I was stunned lol. Even in death, he had to get one more lick in :lau

One of his legs seized while I was cooking him and he kicked the lid off the crockpot :th

I think it's moreso probably making the meat tough rather than changing the literal taste. I had one cockerel get a very, very bad death and he never did loosen up.

I think there is truth to adrenaline affecting the quality of meat. I know that chickens go through death throes differently if they were seriously upset prior than if it went very smoothly. In commercial plants, everything is setup to get things done quickly and without undo stress to the...

My birds don't have any sort of disease that would be spread like that. If I had questions about disease, I wouldn't be gutting the bird, I'd dispatch it and dispose of it in another manner.

They are not traumatized in the slightest. If you are pulling the birds you're butchering from the group you're doing it in front of, they get a bit upset basically as you're catching a bird, but once you walk out, they're back to not caring. The sight and smell of blood does not traumatize...