@Hensndoes yeah I imagine it does seem harsh, but it's the slaughtering and butchering of livestock.. it isn't going to be pretty unfortunately no matter which method or how you go about it. But you dispatch the bird with respect with no suffering at all. The birds are well cared for up until the actual process. They are all big and healthy, and have free ranged most of their lives. It still makes me sad when my hubby culls some birds because you work so hard to breed them, hatch them, feed them, and raise them up. I can't help but feel a tiny bit defeated when I have to cull unworthy birds, but the bad are culled to make room for more grow outs so I can hopefully produce more good.
I was reading and thinking, $%^&..... she is every chickens nightmare. Dexter of the chicken world. I do have to learn to do this. I like the broom idea. It almost seems like an accident. I have given away at least 50 cockerels/roosters, that's a lot of Coq au vin! And if nothing else to put them out of their misery when necessary. I have a limping pullet. What a day! I need to stay in the house. I am sure this is just a temporary thing. Jumping off the roost, etc. I moved a coop today so at dark thirty Antonio was walking around with his girls wondering where to go! The hens laid eggs in the moved coop... you think they could figure it out. Two hens were in the nesting boxes when I moved the coop. They just went along for the ride. Chickens!
