I hate to ask this, but I really want to dispatch my meat chickens as painlessly and quickly as possible. I have a hip problem so I lay the bird on the ground, place a stick on its neck, put my feet on the stick and dislocate the neck. In about 15 seconds I just go ahead and remove the head to bleed the bird. I then put the birds down in the holes of stacked cement blocks to bleed them. Is this method humane? It seems to work the best for me and creates less mess than anything else I have tried. Anyone else have any information about this method or advice about better ways to do the actual killing?:|