Electrocuting your chicken

[Molpet]

Been there. I butchered two three-year-old turkeys that my boss wanted gone. Waste of time. Both of them also went to the dogs. It was so stringy that it was like eating clumps of wet horse hair. It was early on in my butchering experience so I'm not sure if I contributed to the toughness in someway by not resting or something but, by golly, it was bad.

I rest the heritage turkey for 5days
Traditionally they are harvested the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Cooking is different than the baby BB. Low and slow. I prefer the flavor of the heritage. I don't think they are tough. I roasted a 4 yr tom and didn't think he was tough.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Sausage.
and I'm not going to the trouble to electrocute my birds before decapitating. I AM going to the trouble to make sure my knife is SHARP!

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I feel like this would have the opposite effect. As someone who has been electrocuted by high voltage fences many many times... I can say that as soon as you feel that shock every muscle and fiber of your being tenses up like crazy! The one time I got shocked by a cattle fence I had terrible charlie horses in my calf the rest of the day because I tensed up so bad and every other time I had muscle spasms the rest of the day. If you have a tensed up bird at butcher it is not going to be tender quite the opposite really. Also I have to agree that there is no way to control the path of the electricity.

 

[Banana01]

Be careful, you might bring it back to life.

 

[iwltfum]

I rest the heritage turkey for 5days
Traditionally they are harvested the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Cooking is different than the baby BB. Low and slow. I prefer the flavor of the heritage. I don't think they are tough. I roasted a 4 yr tom and didn't think he was tough.

These were narragansett. I grow mostly BBws these days but that was way back before I knew anything about resting the birds after butcher. I hadn't butchered more than a few chickens and turkeys at that point. I'm glad you had better luck! There certainly is less wiggle room and more fore-thought and planning involved the older any bird gets.