FeatherTay
Crowing
This thread is 11 years old. OP has not been active since 2017. Just letting you know.Get yourself a cone. Watch a few youtube videos on how to slaughter a chicken if you want to do it yourself. If you stick a chicken in a cone, it calms them down fast because they feel safe. You can slice the artery fairly easily. You need to know where to cut so you don't pull the neck out and tear the crop. You want to fast your chickens about 18 hours so their system is clean incase you accidently cut something you shouldn't. If you don't want to kill your birds yourself, there's probably someone in the area you live in that would do it at a reasonable price. We have Amish here that will slaughter them for $1.25 per chicken.