Hi all - unfortunately it looks like we are going to be culling a bird when my husband is home for the weekend. We've just got a bad egg so to speak. She is broody, eating eggs, won't leave the coop, aggressive towards us and a big bully to the others. It's creating a bad dynamic.
Is there anyway to cull a single bird for meat? Do you have to have equipment? Just looking for the best route after the action step is complete.
The best memory I have of my material granny was a Saturday after the crops were laid by and we were all sitting in the back yard eating watermelon. Chickens ran in and out between us looking for bits of melon and of course the watermelon seeds that we spit out. A white pullet ventured to near granny and she struck like a 20 year old, grabbed the pullet by a leg, wrung the pullet's neck and tossed the still flopping body up next to the apple tree were granny dumped her dish water. Then she went back to eating watermelon. The next thing out of granny's mouth was "Recon we'll have chicken and dumplings for Sunday dinner" (the mid-day meal in this part of the world.) If a 79 year old snuff dipping grand maw, dressed in a homemade flour sack dress, and Sunbonnet can kill a chicken it can't be that hard to do, so I'm reasonably sure that you'll also be able to cull a hen. I can promise you that you won't feel a thing.

Unfortunately a setting hen likely won't have enough meat on her bones to make one good h'orderve, so proceed with that in mind.