DIY HUMANE way to Kill Slaughter Chicken (Stun-kill, Gas)

[bairo]

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Youve never been hypovolemic due to bilateral jugular slits. Big, big difference.
Light headed for about 5 seconds, unconsciousness, then death. All in under 30 seconds for a chicken.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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I'm watching Sherlock Holmes right now and I could almost see him saying what you just did, I agree!

 

[triplepurpose]

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I'm watching Sherlock Holmes right now and I could almost see him saying what you just did, I agree!

x2. Well said!

 

[happytraylz]

I must say, this is a very interesting thread! I have yet to kill one off my chickens for food, but hope to be raising meat birds within the next year (my Silkies are not for food). I have enjoyed everyone's comments on this, and am pretty sure that the head removal will be there way I go.

 

[DB_Tex]

I have no qualms about the hatchet to the neck method. It may not look pretty but we keep it sharp and it severs the spinal cord for an instant and painless death even if it doesn't go through the whole neck on the first strike. To be fair though, we've only done ducks. They have a HUGE target area for this so it's impossible to miss. Hopefully our first broilers are half so easy. To my joy we had a rare glorious arizona rainstorm for several days before we killed our first drakes. I know I sent them off having been truly happy and having lived the good life.

 

[twentynine]

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Ding Ding Ding!!!!!!!

Winner!

Cut to the chase, no drama, no ying yang balonga.

And well stated too!

I can't believe you guys were debating the merits of CO2 verses CO verses argon, can it get more complicated?

 

[galanie]

This has been a really entertaining thread. I can't believe that either. I think the strangest though was the electrocution in water with jumper cables or something like that? I think the thread should have been called "strangest ways to kill a chicken."

Or "How to Incredibly Complicate a Simple Task."

 

[Abirdbrain]

Being an animal person I take no delite in harvesting from my flock. I made simple cones from furnace duct pipe nailed to a board, and slip several clucks in them. (3) I take a pair of loping shears, that you would trim tree branches with, and trim their heads off (snip!) Simple , fast, and bloody, as they drain in just a few minutes, and thrash but a few seconds. It is the fastest cleanest way I have found.

Getting past the emotions for talking to them over time, and mentally naming them, or worse, considering them a pet, is part of the agony over killing for food. You simply HAVE to get into the right mindset.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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x10, hesitating is only going to wind you up in a situation that you really don't want to be in. Imagine chopping the head off, hesitating at the last second and only cutting the head halfway off? Now you have a chicken running around with its head flopping around behind it. Not pretty.

 

[Ariel301]

Wait...PETA said that gassing them was more humane than the near-instant death of just chopping off the head? Given the things I know about PETA, I would not trust anything they say about how to kill an animal. I've seen an animal die of suffocation. It wasn't pretty. It wasn't fast. I've seen animals die from decapitation or cutting the throat. Even with a large animal like a full-grown bull, it is over in seconds. The animal doesn't even know that happened. We routinely slaughter young goats by holding them between our knees and making a deep cut to the throat. The animal doesn't even make a sound, it just falls over and is gone, the heart stops in maybe 5-10 seconds on a goat or chicken. That's about as instant as you can get.

I love my livestock, and I treat them like family. But they are not pets. Some of them have names. But when they are no longer able to pull their weight around the farm, they end their life in a useful way in the soup pot. Some are destined for the table from birth, and I don't treat them any different from those that will be around for years. My meat goat babies are bottle-fed along with the keepers. But I KNOW that their purpose is to become my food, and so I don't get attached. Sure, we'll remember that animal, even while we eat it. But we don't agonize over it, we know it had a good life, we had fun raising it, and it died quickly and relatively painlessly. We butchered two beef cows, and we gave them names. When I'm cooking beef for dinner, it isn't unusual for my husband to ask me if we are eating Norman or Cowzilla and compare the flavor of the two.

I honestly think that the original poster is not cut out to be raising animals for meat. If you are still constantly worrying about a cat that you gave away a year ago, then you are not going to be able to handle killing a chicken. If you are bothered by the thought of hanging it upside down AFTER it is dead...you should probably not make your own meat. You're not strong enough emotionally to do it. I think even if you were to put it in a gas chamber or electrocute it or even have a veterinarian euthanize it and hold a funeral and bury it in a little coffin in the backyard with a gravestone, you would still feel sad about it for a very long time, right? But you also ought to know that the animals used to make storebought meat are not treated humanely in feedlots, poultry houses, or processing plants. So, as for the "future PETA member daughter" who won't let her parents kill their birds but still eats storebought meat...she needs to watch a few videos of what goes on with commercial food animals, I think.