How do you cull chickens?

[WI chickens]

I have a pellet gun, but it is a rifle so it is too long to hold up to their heads and I would likely miss trying to pick them off in the yard. A pistol would be better fo me at least.

I don't shoot them from distance. I do it at night. I carry them from the roost to wherever I'm going to dispatch them. They don't even move so I can put the muzzle exactly where I want it and shoot them directly thru the brain.

 

[WI chickens]

Do you do the same with smaller birds like adolescents or chicks? Sorry if it's obvious, I'm trying to find a way that works better for me than branch trimmers

I do. I wouldn't want to have to lopper their heads off.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I do it at night.

Ah, that makes sense.

Thx

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

So I finally got around to doing the deed, for one at least. I took the advice from @WI chickens and did it at night. I did not use my pellet gun. Before I took the condemned one off the roost I opened up the black plastic bag on the floor of the coop and leaned my new bypass loppers against the wall. With my red light on my head I picked her off the coop and laid her down in the bag and lopped off her head. I put my foot on her until she stopped flopping then picked up the bag sealed it and dropped in the trash. She would not have been eaten here so no processing.

I have 5 more to cull, next time I will finish the job all at once.

Sucks, but it is what it is.