How to kill male chicks

[dazz02]

i am just planning ahead however would be looking at incubating around 30 eggs at a time. If nitrogen is best where can i get it from where it is cheap?

 

[Alaska Fowl INC]

You can deep fry them and eat the chick whole on a biscuit. The bones havn't developed yet and the beak is soft enough to just be crunchy.

http://lovefoodwine.com/2011/01/03/marinated-and-deep-fried-baby-chickens.aspx

Is this with internal organs still? ,,,people eat those half incubated eggs .....people eat anything,, Me too Buahahh

 

[SigChef]

i am just planning ahead however would be looking at incubating around 30 eggs at a time. If nitrogen is best where can i get it from where it is cheap?

ISI Canister- http://www.chefscatalog.com/product...de=DW4GGP436&gclid=CMDYkaaTkbcCFRCe4AodVxoAMw

Chargers- http://www.whipcreamexpress.com/product/WCC-MN-IS24.html?gclid=CNC078aTkbcCFQVV4AodOUwAsA

This would probably do the trick.

 

[ChickenLove6]

I think the reality is that most roosters you give away for free will likely be eaten. Breeders generally very carefully select roosters and end up with an access of rooster chicks themselves.

The truth is that chickens are a part of the food chain. Are the chickens that you eat wasted lives? Is feeding something else more or less wasteful?

OP

Have you found any interested buyers in live feed? or are they all buy them frozen? Can you ask the potential buyer how they prefer the birds? I would make sure you really can sell them before proceeding too far. otherwise i would raise them just old enough to eat myself so nothing goes to waste.

There are a number of threads on here about CO2 gassing. I have to agree that car exhaust seems potentially problematic.

For a start most roosters are not eaten in the UK. Their meat is too 'sour.' And I never said that feeding the chicks to reptiles is wasteful. Tbh if this person were to sell to reptile keepers I would tell him to go ahead as it isn't wasteful, it is much more useful as it's life is being used to support another animal's.
Oh and I don't eat chicken. I am vegetarian.

 

[MidsummerNight]

 

[aoxa]

For a start most roosters are not eaten in the UK. Their meat is too 'sour.' And I never said that feeding the chicks to reptiles is wasteful. Tbh if this person were to sell to reptile keepers I would tell him to go ahead as it isn't wasteful, it is much more useful as it's life is being used to support another animal's.
Oh and I don't eat chicken. I am vegetarian.

That's weird.. My grandparents are from England and have eaten plenty of roosters in their days. They are the ones who explained to me how to kill them for meat.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Not to comment on the chick killing at all, .............but perhaps, just perhaps some of us old timers may need to do a couple of instructional videos on how to wring a chicken's neck. It sheds no blood, zero mess. It's quick. It's absolutely over in a second. It's silent. It's the primary way chickens have been killed for thousands of years. My grandmother taught me how almost 55 years ago. My dad was a big block of wood and sharp hatchet guy. I learned his method at the same time. Both ways are instantaneous. Chick, young cockerel or older bird.

OP, providing a feeding for reptiles would be great. Feeding a tree/shrub on your property would also be feeding a living thing. Just saying. Review Mufasa's lesson to young Simba in Lion King. Circle of life.

 

[dazz02]

Not to comment on the chick killing at all, .............but perhaps, just perhaps some of us old timers may need to do a couple of instructional videos on how to wring a chicken's neck. It sheds no blood, zero mess. It's quick. It's absolutely over in a second. It's silent. It's the primary way chickens have been killed for thousands of years. My grandmother taught me how almost 55 years ago. My dad was a big block of wood and sharp hatchet guy. I learned his method at the same time. Both ways are instantaneous. Chick, young cockerel or older bird.

OP, providing a feeding for reptiles would be great. Feeding a tree/shrub on your property would also be feeding a living thing. Just saying. Review Mufasa's lesson to young Simba in Lion King. Circle of life.

i would like to wring their neck and did great deal of research online and asked my uncle who can do it. I then tried to do it how he said although all he said was pull and i couldn't snap its neck. Don't be misled i am not weak and can lift good 40kg but for all my pulling i couldn't kill it. Therefore i haven't tried since. With the one i tried i ended up taking it to my uncle who did it and said it was no different to any other he's done. Perhaps if i twisted the neck and then pulled in one sudden movement like i've researched it might work but it isn't fair for me to keep trying. I don't like asking him all the time and believe i should and want to be able to do it myself.

Anyway could you do that with a day old chick as there isn't much to grab hold of i have however heard that you can just squish its neck between your finger.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Severing the spinal connection with the brain is the objective. It is instantaneous. Strength isn't a big requirement, but technique is. Squishing the throat is merely choking or suffocating the bird.

 

[dazz02]

for young chicks i have read that you could break the spinal cord by just squeezing as the bones haven't solidified. Could you please, if you don't mind, explain the technique in detail for killing young chick and an old hen. Then if i dare to i will try when the time is upon me.