Do I have vampires in my coop?

[Avalon1984]

We processed my 3 20 week old roos this weekend and I was so proud since I had sharpened my knifes the night before and made sure they were sharp- and boy they were. My question is, the first one I killed did not bleed out properly. We cut is head off with garden nippers and there was barely any blood. I worried that maybe I had clogged the artery or something so I made several incisions in the neck closer to the body and nothing. I did pluck him right away too and gutted him but there were no areas of discoloration from any blood left in the body either. Do I have vampires???? Or what did I do wrong? The other 2 bled out just fine.

 

[jasonm11]

not sure about the vampires, but chickens dont really have a lot of blood to let out.

 

[Avalon1984]

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Thank you Jason. The other two seemed to have more blood than the first one. I was thinking that maybe he was anaemic. Who knows. I'll try him next weekend and see how he tastes

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[big medicine]

You might also consider putting a padlock on your freezer, there might be Zombies at play here as well.

 

[jasonm11]

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[Avalon1984]

After all my work of filling the freezer with farm fresh goodies, I will protect it day and night!!!

2 more roosters to go tonight, will see how it goes.

 

[RoosterRidge]

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[Impress]

You need to check the rafters of your coop thoroughly, vampires are REALLY good at hiding in tiny crevices and cracks. I do recommend you treat with some food grade Diatomaceous Earth, dust all those cracks and crevices, and make it as unfriendly an environment for those vampires as possible.

 

[Avalon1984]

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Done

I was also happy to see that there were no mites or other critters on my birds when I dressed them out. A friend of mine said he always sees lots of them and just washes them off. Now if I could only get rid of that rogue vampire...

 

[Mac in Wisco]

We processed 120 layer hens this fall and while I bled them out well, there wasn't a whole lot of blood. After that we did 30 Cornish Cross and I was really surprised at the amount of blood, bleeding out the first one I was thinking "Holy Smokes that's a lot of blood", but of course they were two to three times larger than the layer hens.