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Good luck with that.

I think he killed a squirrel with his gun once. I'll have to try the tuna can test. I would sure feel better doing that, I believe. Thanks for ya'lls help. I am hoping to eventually do meat chickens and I need to be able to handle this. I know my chickens have a good life and healthy food so...

You hit the nail on the head. I was way too hesitant and I didnt like that he was suffering the consequences of that. I guess I wasn't going deep enough as well to hit the artery. They make it look so easy on You Tube. If I doesn't go better next time I will have to try another method. Son has...

Well that was somewhat traumatic and more difficult than I hoped. I had wanted to do 3 cockerels but with my husband's help. Weather did not permit for the day I planned and I did not want to wait till Friday or Saturday when he would be home. I think I should have waited. Thought my son would...

Thanks for the help. I have this electric knife sharpener that I hadn't seen for a while but my husband dug it out. I had bought two knives at a discount store a little while ago. Took them both out of the package. One was really cheap and not very sharp, so we tried the sharpener on it and I...

Plan to process some roosters tomorrow, weather permitting, for the first time. I have three that I need to get rid of. They are just short of 25 weeks. Got my cone set up. I don't have great knives and I know you need a really sharp one to kill them. Any suggestions before I go shopping? Also I...

Not thinking I would have the nerve to do it either. Just reading the page in my book. It shows using a killing cone and you cut the jugulars first then when you push the knife into the brain it says you hear a squawk and that indicates success. That would just creep me out.

I need to look at it when I get home but it made it sound like it was a knife through the roof is the mouth. Then the follicles relaxed but that that was short-lived.

I have a book I bought on butchering. That talks about something called "pithing" that allows you to dry pluck easier but only for a very short period after killing the chicken. It involves sticking a knife in the brain. I've never done it but some folks on here might know if it really works.