Dixie Chicks

[Outpost JWB]

I see them as animals also. Not humans with feathers. The dog is a bit different. Even when my favorite hen died (Fur Foot-a partridge cochin) my brother said he was very surprised to see that I didn't cry, I just buried her. He had seen me dr her up many times from DH's English setter attack. Once she got better, she was laying eggs and back to normal for months. Then one very cold day, she croaked.

 

[Amberjem]

a little free time for you to enjoy some me time then @Outpost JWB nice you going to do anything special to give yourself some pamper time?

 

[Outpost JWB]

a little free time for you to enjoy some me time then @Outpost JWB nice you going to do anything special to give yourself some pamper time?

LOL! Laundry, cook dinner, dishes, bring in firewood for the snow storm they are predicting for tonight! A woman's work is never done.

 

[perchie.girl]

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lay a towel on the ground hold the chicken by the feet and lay their head on the towel... take a broom stick and place it on their neck and put your foot on the boom stick to hold the chicken down and keep the broom stick in place... then pull on the legs till the neck snaps.

This method is also used for dispatching rabbits.

This way there is no blood to deal with.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

does it work for ducks or geese also?....those darn birds have amazing flexibility

 

[hennible]

And stronger necks

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

lay a towel on the ground hold the chicken by the feet and lay their head on the towel...  take a broom stick and place it on their neck and put your foot on the boom stick to hold the chicken down and keep the broom stick in place...  then pull on the legs till the neck snaps.

This method is also used for dispatching rabbits.

This way there is no blood to deal with.

deb

Oh my, glad I am not a chicken. What about the killing cones? I dont have one and I am looking for a quick, painless as possible and easier way of doing it. Also the tools. I have heard the Chinese rools are better. Do you know anything about these tools.

 

[perchie.girl]

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This is for a bird that is sick I would use the other way for birds that are for dinner. This way if you have a sick bird you arent potentially contaminating your regular dispatching tools.

deb

 

[tntchix]

My ds just bought me a machete (at TSC of all places) for the birds. I really don't want to have to use it, but I know it's necessary sometimes. Bullies, illness, excess roos...

 

[Outpost JWB]

Oh my, glad I am not a chicken. What about the killing cones? I dont have one and I am looking for a quick, painless as possible and easier way of doing it. Also the tools. I have heard the Chinese rools are better. Do you know anything about these tools.

I think this year I am going to buy a caution cone and cut the end off, screw it into a tree and use the killing cone method. Last year I used a huge stump, and hand axe. DH nailed a rope to the stump and said it would be easier if I put the string across the roos neck. Ummm, I kinda thought he was crazy, but sometimes it's easier to go along with him than to argue. So, I put the rope over the roo's neck, covered his eyes with a hand towel & 1st whack, chopped his head and the rope off! LOL! DH didn't put another one on there.

We only got 23 eggs today. It's been crazy nasty weather though. Tomorrow is suppose to be worse. I did get 2 CCL eggs though

Funny story about the CCLs. They are being kept in my greenhouse right now until they get used to the place and quarantine is up. So, not thinking, the little dog follows me everywhere when I get home from work. He went to the greenhouse today to feed them with me and the 2 cockrells started flapping around screaming

and the poor little dog ran to the corner of the greenhouse

also freaked out! I quickly snatched him up and got him out of there. I am going to have to work with them on being more comfortable with him.