EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

Quote: Mike said it wasn't a problem for him; it was for me, so there you have it. The fact is, goats are browsers, like deer; sheep are grazers, like cows.

 

[Pensmaster]

Yeah.... I'll let you try it first.

The more I look into it, the more the five bucks to get the neighbour kid to do it seems worth it.

$5 is 10 T shirts

 

[5Sons Coop]

Exactly only mine looks like this. Last 100 or so has been done with this knife.

A feed bag with small head sized hole in bottom corner, a rope and pocket knife. Don't use hatchet your going to hurt yourself. Or shovel

I used 3.5 inch buck knife (none folding). This is going to sound odd but I hold the chicken between my knees softly stretch its neck with one hand and slip the knife in just in front of the neck bone cutting out and away. I have a home made stand that holds 4 orange hi-way cones upside down. After the cut a quick flip upside down into the cone. It works so well I can't see doing it any other way. I slaughtered over 100 this way in a day before with 6 people plucking and gutting. Chopping head tends to make them a little more floppy and bruises meat.

 

[Pensmaster]

Mike said it wasn't a problem for him; it was for me, so there you have it. The fact is, goats are browsers, like deer; sheep are grazers, like cows.

And they all require fencing that I don't have.

 

[BantyChooks]

$5 is 10 T shirts

Therapy is $250 a session

Edited coz my keyboard is convinced I use pounds instead of dollars.

 

[BantyChooks]

I used 3.5 inch buck knife (none folding). This is going to sound odd but I hold the chicken between my knees softly stretch its neck with one hand and slip the knife in just in front of the neck bone cutting out and away. I have a home made stand that holds 4 orange hi-way cones upside down. After the cut a quick flip upside down into the cone. It works so well I can't see doing it any other way. I slaughtered over 100 this way in a day before with 6 people plucking and gutting. Chopping head tends to make them a little more floppy and bruises meat.

Don't want meat, I just need a way to make sick birds dead fast with me not having to look too much.

 

[5Sons Coop]

I may know someone who can thin that herd for you with crop damage permits & archery gear.

Farmer that plants the corn gets the crop tags. These deer did not show up until after season when the snow got deep.

 

[Pensmaster]

I used 3.5 inch buck knife (none folding). This is going to sound odd but I hold the chicken between my knees softly stretch its neck with one hand and slip the knife in just in front of the neck bone cutting out and away. I have a home made stand that holds 4 orange hi-way cones upside down. After the cut a quick flip upside down into the cone. It works so well I can't see doing it any other way. I slaughtered over 100 this way in a day before with 6 people plucking and gutting. Chopping head tends to make them a little more floppy and bruises meat.

Agree chopping, lopping or wringing simply doesn't work well. Messy and messes with quality of meat. I'm not lucky enough to have the help. Neighbor has offered to learn but our times haven't lined up.

 

[Pensmaster]

Therapy is $250 a session

Edited coz my keyboard is convinced I use pounds instead of dollars.

I was beginning to believe this whole Iceland thing.

Very true on the therapy part.

 

[5Sons Coop]

Mike, I was looking seriously into trying that method of using a shovel/broomstick, but a friend said it didn't work well at all... So I've crossed that out again. Just dunno.... At this point, I'm thinking loppers looks the best for me and the bird, coz I can't stomach looking the bird in the eye before picking its head up and slitting its throat. I'm still too much of a chicken hugger to do that much just yet, on my own birds anyway.

But then I have to buy loppers special due to my pair being about as good as a butter knife set.

Yeah, I'm great at coming up with excuses as to why I can't kill a chicken.

Once the decision has been made to process even before the chicken is dead I just look at it as a piece of meat. All the step are non different than trimming the fat I don't want to eat off a cooked steak. I don't want to eat it alive so it must die, don't want to eat the head or guts etc.