I am going to kill Al Runion-- need advice

[the1much]

dont forget the COLD water,, right after you dunk in hot,, dunk him in the cold to stop the "cooking"

and ive had a big ole 9 month RIR roo fer dinnah,, he was so tender, it was like butter

 

[jvls1942]

If you are going to cook him on the grill;;;;; boil him in water for awhile first to mostly cook him.. then grill away for the flavor... works for venison also.. grilled venison and goat and mutton are all just great. just remember, the leaner the meat the tougher it will be on the grill..

frying meat brings out the stronger flavors.. not always what you want.. like venison will taste a lot gamier..

the worst chicken I ever ate was just wonderful..

never kill an animal while you are angry.. cool down first..

 

[ILoveJoe]

Due to fowl

weather, Al Runion has been granted a temporary reprieve.

He must know my plans because he has not attacked me for 3-4 days. He is trying to trick me I think, cagey beast.

 

[silkiechicken]

That's what they do... Had a butcher day delayed for a meanie once... well, his temporary repreive ended in the jaws of a coon instead of me!!!

 

[ILoveJoe]

Today was the day! I did in Al Runion!

What an experience.

Al has had a run of good luck and it seemed that on all the "good days" to kill him, something always happened to postpone it. Today was not a "good day" ....we have a bit of freezing rain and it is cold, but I did it anyway!

I told hubby I had to fill the water tank for the horses and gathered up all my stuff to 'do in ' AL. I did NOT want to tell hubby what I was about to do, he would just make me nervous with his worrying aloud.

I had read on this forum that someone had used a kitty litter container as a cone and pulled the head through the spout.

That WAS my plan. I had the container. I cut the bottom out, I threw away the screw on lid and I poked 4 fours - 2 opposite each other- so I could use bailing twine to tie it against one of the posts inside the barn. I had the muck basket with a bucket lined with a garbage bag inside the muck basket, all strategically placed to catch the blood.

I had a fillet knife I bought from Walmart to cut his throat and use to eviscerate him.

I had bailing twin to tie his legs.

I had on my waterproof jacket to keep blood from splattering all over my clothes and I also had my carhart coveralls on to catch any blood from splattering all over my pants.

As I worked around him today, feeding the girls, he kept doing his wing flapping, skittering sideways at me, giving me the evil eye manuever, I told him "today is the last day for that action".

I drug out the hose, started the grill and put the big aluminum wearever pot on the grill and used the hose to fill up the pot with water, then drug the hose out to the water tank to fill. While the tank filled, I got all my tools in order and went to catch Al. I caught him easily and carried him into the barn. I tied his feet together and lifted him up and into the kitty litter container/cone of death. OOOps he didn't fit, he was too big!

I kept thinking of all the 'how-to' advice I had been regaled with at work, and ended up hanging him from a beam in the barn. I had already made a nice splatter proof area so I was forced to improvise this part. I pulled a sheet of plastic out of the hayloft and laid it on the ground under him and put the muck basket and bucket under him.

He hung there quietly throughout the time it took me to get my new setup complete. I heard the water tank overflowing and had to rush back out to turn off the water.

Once back in the barn, I grabbed the knife, I crossed myself and approached Al. I held his head with my thumb under his beak and I turned his head away from me and drug the knife across the side of his throat. Knife not very sharp!?

I had to do another cut and the blood started flowing out and into the plastic lined properly placed bucket.

Then he started to flap. I held onto his head and directed the blood into the bucket but his flapping loosened the tie I had to keep him on the beam and he started sliding downward into the bucket. Can this get any better?

He ended up flapping his way out of my hands and head first into the bucket. I grabbed his feet and held him until he was completely dead then I hung him back up and started plucking as many feathers as I could get out before dunking him into the hot water. I cut his head off and dropped it into the bucket.

Surprisingly, I got alot of feathers off before dunking him, but I did tear the skin in a few places. After dunking him, I finished plucking him on the table in the backyard. I eviscerated him without tearing any intestines or the vent, but I forgot to pull the crop first and I must have drug it out with his intestines, I never saw it....?

I took him into the house to finish him out of the rain and I ended up skinning him, since he is going into the stew pot tomorrow.

He is now residing in the stockpot, covered in a brine.

 

[lesliet]

Great Job!!!

 

[the1much]

way to go

and his crop probably came out along with his windpipe

and just wait,, he's gonna taste better then any other chicken you have ever eaten hehe

 

[ILoveJoe]

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I hope he does! The meat is definitely darker than store bought chickens. His skin was nice looking before I ripped it all off.

 

[ILoveJoe]

I didn't tell hubby I had killed the chicken.

I had the carcass in the sink and he went into the kitchen and I heard "What the....?!"

 

[the1much]

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my uncle shot a deer,, i was at school, he stuck it in the barn hanging, but had the head bent up looking at the door,,,,,, i came home, he sent me out to the barn,,,,, HOLY POO MY PANTS !!!

ya do know you can cause permanent damage to people doing that??? hahahaha