Can I shoot???

[New2TheCoop]

.22 bullets are cheap... And it would be super quick, but someone told me you can't eat a chicken that you shoot because "the meat will be too tough"... Is this true?

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

you can shoot but them you need to bleed them out, like slit the jugular and hang but if you don't do t fast enough they don't bleed out well

 

[Mattemma]

I just killed my first hen yesterday,and I would say a small hand ax is fast and cheap.

 

[ARose4Heaven]

Shooting will kill em, but why bother? As stated above, you still need to bleed em, and the time it takes to catch a thrashing body, is time you need for bleeding the bird.

It is just so much faster to tuck em under the arm facing backwards, have the spouse slit the jugular, and drop em in a barrel till the thrashing is done. keeps all the blood contained and no headless birds wandering the place.

 

[Bossroo]

Why risk shooting yourself in the foot

or your neighbor in the eye

( a .22 bullet will fly a mile ) ? Then, here come the judge to settle a law suit !!!

 

[little_grey_bantam]

Eeek! But I have a pet roo who needs to be put down! I don't wanna kung-chop his neck! Eek!

 

[bigredfeather]

I would say shooting is a very unnecessary risk. There is no reason to when slitting is so easy.

 

[dsqard]

You can do as ARose4Heaven suggested or you can make a killing cone out of a milk jug. I would suggest not shooting the chicken either unless you are an EXCELLENT shot.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

My DH is an EXCELLENT shot (military trained) and won't shoot a chicken. Too much risk, not enough target.

 

[mstricer]

Shooting don't work very well. We had a nasty EE rooster tgat kept attacking me, BF had bright idea to shoot him, he got out the .22 and some bullets, shoot him in the head, I swear it didn't phase him, he just started eating grass, we both looked at each other he tried again this time in the eye, he jumped in turn causing chaos all around, finally it took 3 bullets before he fell. I always felt him to be a bit evil. cutting the throat is best way to go.