just a quick question

[merdock67]

I am new to raising chickens, but is there a problem with just cutting off the head instead of letting them bleed out?

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

I remember my Opa just cutting off the head and watching the headless chicken run around the yard. I don't know what he did with it after that but he was a butcher for Piggly Wiggly food store. I was only five years old but I remember this like it was yesterday.

 

[merdock67]

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That is what i remember to that is why i asked. It is best memories as a child.... not to sound sick I was just struck by it. I don't know how to explain it.

 

[myhubbycallsmechickeemama]

LOL...I'm almost 50 and I also remember my grandparents doing this like it was yesterday!! We cut the heads off because we were afraid of missing the vein and causing them undue suffering.

 

[becky3086]

My father always chopped their heads off. It was chop, fling, that way he didn't get blood all over himself. I hang them and cut their throats.

 

[merdock67]

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I guess that I just dont understand cutting their throats instead of just chopping off the head. I mean is it better to just hang them and cut their throat? If so why?

 

[the Pollo Loco]

I remember grandma wringing their necks like she was cranking up an old model T,

 

[erinchelsea]

We've done it both ways and I think either way is fine. It still tastes like chicken.

I did notice I think they flap around a bit more when you cut off the head, but put them in a killing cone and it's not a huge deal.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

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I agree.

 

[Hopefulloflove]

My little tiny grandma used to wring thier necks...boy was that a sight to see! I don't feel right letting them bleed out...I feel that they suffer more that way...I think chopping thier heads of is the best way...jmho..