As mentioned in an earlier post........one of my teenagers died tonight. Got knocked out and died. She looks like she's sleeping. But alas......no heart beat. Took the stethescope to her and nothing. I took the opportunity to examine her for anything else health related such as mites, etc. Nothing. A beautiful healthy looking girl. My strange question........I just ordered 25 meat birds today and they will arrive on Friday. I was wondering since the bird is wrapped in a bag in our freezer til garbage day.......if I should use her for practice. See, I have never culled a bird before and I am somewhat anxious and hoping I can actually do this deed. So, what do you all think.........should I take her out tomorrow and practice? After she thaws of course......or is that sick and am I a sicko?
OMG I thought you were talking about a human until I got to the second paragraph. I thought you were taking it very well. I don't think it's sick, if it helps you learn and be able to butcher a bird more humanely, why not? Human medical students practice on other dead humans, and that's considered (somewhat) normal.
Actually, if you look at the How To section there's a part about performing a necropsy on your bird if you don't know the cause of death. Sorry about your bird, and I think it's a good idea to practice. It's really not that hard, just don't scald too long or the skin gets cooked!!!
Man!! I've gotta keep up with the posts around here!!!! I DIDN'T see your other post and I thought your "teenager" was one of your (human) kids til I got further down the post!! I was like..."WHAT!!?? How can she be so blah-zay (phonetic spelling)??!!! VERY relieved to find out you were talking about a chicken!!! As for your question, I don't see why not, as long as you don't expose her cooties to your other chickens. Good luck with your culling experience. Better you than me! Oh, and I see I wasn't the only one who was fooled. hehehehe
Quote:So Sorry..........that was unintentional and I guess it's a sign that it's late and I'm tired. That is what WE call them here......our girls. The big one's and the teenagers. My mistake.......wow it does read that way tho.
Sounds pretty sick to me but then again, I see my chickens as companions not dinner. This would be a good topic for the meat birds section since you are planning on butchering
Sounds like a great idea to me. You get to learn chicken anatomy from handling a dead chicken, you get to find out if you can do it yourself, and you make use of dead animal that would have gone in the trash. Not sick, but very practical, good thinking!!!!