Culling - Is This Humane?

[LisaJean]

 

[estpr13]

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wow. i didn't learn alot about culling but this sure explains network news.

I have now had my laugh for the day.

 

[chickeepoo]

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I'm saving up $10 for the next time I have to have a bird culled… I tried the cervical dislocation for a failing Buff with the broomstick method (actually had a friend pull the legs while I was supposed to keep the head down), and her head slipped out from underneath on the first try. Had to go a second time to finish the job, and I never want to watch that again. An accurate hit with a hatchet would have been faster.

 

[PunkinPeep]

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wow. i didn't learn alot about culling but this sure explains network news.

What i want to know is how exactly these experiments were performed. Is this some guy in France, waiting behind the guillotine, going "hey John, blink now. o.k. blink again. o.k. blink again. oh, no more? let's see that was 9 seconds that time...."

 

[Lorimary]

ROFLMAO Hilarious!

 

[Rockportcrpntr]

I started reading this thread but it got a little strange so I'm putting my vote in for the limb trimmer or ugly cowboys method, both seem humane and doable for someone inexperienced with culling. After a moment of silence a short hot water bath and feather removal followed by evisceration I recommend a longer bath with some celery onions salt carrots and some peppercorns and a bay leaf. A nice glass of white wine of your choosing and a slice of homemade bread and a fresh salad

 

[allmypeeps]

Back when we used to gullatine people as punishment I'm sure it (the head thing) was duley noted. That was before it was deemed inhumane

Quote: In actuality, the human head does remain conscious fifteen to twenty seconds after decapitation. This was proven when a scientist condemned to the guillotine in the 1700s told his assistant to watch and that he would blink as many times as he could. The assistant counted fifteen to twenty blinks after the head was severed, the blinks coming at intervals of about one second. So the head does remain briefly alive.

see this: http://www.ask.com/bar?q=guillotined+head+conscious+for&page=1&qsrc=19&ab=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Feuropeanhistory.about.com%2Fod%2Fthefrenchrevolution%2Fa%2Fdyk10.htm

ta ta for now...

 

[PunkinPeep]

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well, i said i wanted to know, and now i do. that's fantastic.

 

[RevaVirginia]

those adolescent orientals sure get a bum rap as far as chickens are concerned.

 

[JennsPeeps]

My serach criteria may have been really off but I couldn't find many credible articles out there about the human brain being active after decapitation - it's not exactly something that can be studied routinely. I did find this article about it, and it seems very reasonable. http://health.howstuffworks.com/10-brain-myths6.htm

The reports of heads blinking & responding during the French revolution don't seem credible to me at all. Not that I don't believe the French (I love them) but rather I think it's way more likely that a suggestible, superstitious, and uneducated person was asked to see something that wasn't there.

I haven't had to cull a bird, and hope I won't have to. But having witnessed a hen's long & laborious death last March, I don't want to have one of my girls suffer, either. DBF and I have talked about culling and we're prepared to do it quickly for the hen's sake, not for ours. Quickest isn't easiest for the human, but it's easiest for the bird.