Butchering single chicken without cone, needing advice

Would this work for our chickens, I doubt they'd sit still like a tame bird would but it should be fairly easy, hold them by their feet upside down, the calm down a little, then head first into the bucket of co2, you could even put a lid with a hole cut in it to kind of stick them in w/o being able to get out so much. They breathe the gas, knock out, and then die. A minute or two later, bird is peacefully / painlessly gone, then we can pluck, behead whatever we need without having to worry about it going wild, shaking blood everywhere etc etc?

Just some thoughts, if this won't work, please tell me, and why if it's a bad idea.

As a way of killing a chicken, it would probably work fine.

But if you want to eat the chicken, you generally want the blood out, and what you suggest would not work as well as some of the other methods people commonly use.
 
So the heart has to be beating to bleed them? You can't kill then say slit a leg or neck and hang upside down and it drains on it's own before clotting? Granted pumping is faster of course but would that work too or probably not very well?

TY for the reply.
Aaron
 
So the heart has to be beating to bleed them? You can't kill then say slit a leg or neck and hang upside down and it drains on it's own before clotting? Granted pumping is faster of course but would that work too or probably not very well?

TY for the reply.
Aaron
The blood will not drain on its own unless the heart is pumping due to the valves in the veins. And some vessels do not go through the neck so they would be closed off due to the valves in the heart.
 
So the heart has to be beating to bleed them? You can't kill then say slit a leg or neck and hang upside down and it drains on it's own before clotting? Granted pumping is faster of course but would that work too or probably not very well?

I don't know all the mechanics of it, but cutting off the head works fine.
(It's also easy to tell if you did it right!)
 
I butchered some Cornish X in Oct, but our neighbor volunteered the equipment and actually cut their throats. I did everything else, and watched the first few have their throats cut, so emotionally I believe I am okay.

I have an extra roo. Hormones hit and he's just too much for my girls, so the time has come. The issue is, I don't have a cone or anything to hang him by his feet. I'll also (unfortunately) be doing it alone. Has anyone ever wrapped them in a towel and held them in their laps to cut the throat? Or is there any other advice? I don't want to use an ax because I can barely hit an nail on the head and I feel far more comfortable in two quick cuts with a knife.
I don't use a cone either. My technique is to tear off his head with the help of a stick, I suggest his head using my feet and pull his legs until I tear it off.
 
Use the broomstick method. I haven't tried it personally, but I've seen a couple videos, and it looks fairly simple. You only need the chicken and a pole of some sort to do it. Lay the chicken down, belly to the ground. Put the pole over their necks, right under the head, standing on either end. Then quickly pull the feet up. It breaks the neck, and sometimes even pops the head right off. Then let it bleed out, and gut it.
I use that technique and for the moment it works for me with chickens, roosters and turkeys
 
I tied the legs together with baling twine, hung the chicken at a convenient height, and used a box cutter or utility knife with a new blade to sever the jugulars. It was quick and the chicken bled out nicely. Before I used the utility knife I used a large, very heavy and very sharp pair of pruning shears and lopped the head off with that.
 
I tied the legs together with baling twine, hung the chicken at a convenient height, and used a box cutter or utility knife with a new blade to sever the jugulars. It was quick and the chicken bled out nicely. Before I used the utility knife I used a large, very heavy and very sharp pair of pruning shears and lopped the head off with that.
What do you mean by cutting off his jugular if you've already cut off his head
 
What do you mean by cutting off his jugular if you've already cut off his head
Two different scenarios. When I butchered my first chicken, I used the pruning shears, and obviously I lopped off the head with them. When I changed to the box cutter I just severed the veins and did not remove the head until later.
 

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