Homesteaders

[Molpet]

You mean pruners you use for plants? Interesting. If I ever have to cull a hen, I'll have to have someone else do it. I'm not squeamish, just attached! Lol!

I use an older model of long handle browning game pruners ..they are sharp and it works well.. I do have a cousin that would come over and 'do the deed', but I can do it myself this way

https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/pro...614086741.do?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=fn

 

[Molpet]

Facts don't really matter when telling a good story...

LOL yes your version is a better story

 

[poppycock1974]

Are there any Urban Homesteaders from Florida on this board? I can only garden a very small section and am not allowed animals in this community so hope to relocate. I can, bake and make soap,salves and such. Wanting to share experiences.

I'm in Jacksonville but have very little land to work with. I do have 4 chickens (11 to start but 6 were Roos and we sold a pullet) and a few small items I'm growing. We are going to get into homesteading when we move and have land

 

[rancher hicks]

I make my husband cut off the heads. Not because I am squeamish or attached but because I am notoriously clumsy. I am afraid if I took anything sharp to a bird I am the only one who would get cut.
If I must kill the bird I use the broomstick method, no sharp objects there.

I put there head in a plastic (non clear) bag, step gently on their head just enough to hold it and give their body a twist or two. I've done the broom stick method but have pulled of a head or two.. Generally I do it at night with very little light.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I make my husband cut off the heads. Not because I am squeamish or attached but because I am notoriously clumsy. I am afraid if I took anything sharp to a bird I am the only one who would get cut.

If I must kill the bird I use the broomstick method, no sharp objects there.

I put there head in a plastic (non clear) bag, step gently on their head just enough to hold it and give their body a twist or two. I've done the broom stick method but have pulled of a head or two.. Generally I do it at night with very little light. 

I could do that. I might try it next time. But really the cone method with my husband using the knife is so much cleaner. But they are my chickens, so if it is just a cull, it usually falls to me the rake care of it.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I make my husband cut off the heads. Not because I am squeamish or attached but because I am notoriously clumsy. I am afraid if I took anything sharp to a bird I am the only one who would get cut.

If I must kill the bird I use the broomstick method, no sharp objects there.

I put there head in a plastic (non clear) bag, step gently on their head just enough to hold it and give their body a twist or two. I've done the broom stick method but have pulled of a head or two.. Generally I do it at night with very little light. 

I could do that. I might try it next time. But really the cone method with my husband using the knife is so much cleaner. But they are my chickens, so if it is just a cull, it usually falls to me the take care of it.

And I usually do it at night too, but that is because they are so much easier to catch

 

[duluthralphie]

I was looking at those blaze orange highway safety cones yesterday at Menard's. I am really thinking of using them next time.

 

[GardenNut]

I was looking at those blaze orange highway safety cones yesterday at Menard's.  I am really thinking of using them next time.

Why not?! Cut to fit!

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I think it is @Beekissed that uses empty bleach bottles.

 

[duluthralphie]

Why not?! Cut to fit!

That is what I was thinking, I have those 13 pound CX's and then I have my skinny CLB soup roosters. the highway cones are nearly indestructible and a lot cheaper than the killing cones and I can not find one big enough for my CX's.