Excellent!I learned how to sharpen my knife today. Cull went perfect. And I realized you have to go right under the jaw. Above that, the vein disappears
Yes, just below the jaw...and get the knife between the feather shafts.
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Excellent!I learned how to sharpen my knife today. Cull went perfect. And I realized you have to go right under the jaw. Above that, the vein disappears
This blog shows exactly where to cut....it's a meat bird so feathering is thin.I don't know if it was me or the knives - i tried to only cut the sides and not the trachea, but ended up cutting a bunch of places and still missed the artery.
I know how you feel, my jumbo Cornish Cross backed out of my killing cone when I wasn't watching and bruised himself when he hit the ground. After that, I hung a leg cord above my killing cone, so now there is no way for them to escape. They hang by their legs in the killing cone.Today was my third time culling. I didn't do anything different. But this time went terribly wrong. One chicken got out of the killing cone after I had halfway cut its head off and it ran back to the coop. It was traumatizing to watch, to be the cause of, and that poor chicken suffered. It wasn't the only mistake I made. I do the vein cutting method, but I kept missing the vein this time. I don't know what to do. I don't know if I can do this ever again. Any advice is appreciated. Please be nice. I did this to raise and kill my chickens humanely, so this is making me sick. I've cried all morning. I've watched probably a hundred videos before ever attempting to kill, and like I said, it went well the first two times