My homemade kill station in action (pics)

[Sunny Side Up]

What a dandy design! I will certainly use some of your ideas to make something for my own use.

You could probably add wood to the legs to make it taller. Having it on the wagon is handy for moving it around, but I would rather trade stability for mobility. It doesn't look too heavy or bulky to just lift & carry. You could drill some holes down the legs & corresponding holes on the extra leg lumber, and attatch them with bolts & wing nuts. Then the legs would be adjustable for different working heights.

I like having a work table right at waist level, it helps reduce fatigue & strain, especially when doing many birds in one day.

I'm thinking I would make my table with a detatchable cutting board that I could remove for disinfecting. I use one of those thick heavy plastic ones and I would use bolts, washers & wing nuts to hold it in place while working.

My friend & I have been discussing switching to the slash-and-drain method instead of the chop. I'll show her your neat device for holding the cones with the birds inside, and the collecting buckets below.

How do you folks who use milk jugs for cones do it?

Instead of calling this a kill station, perhaps you could call it your "Processing Platform"

 

[chickens4jojo]

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Oh Yes! That really does sound so much less "threatening!"

 

[babalubird]

Well, darn. I couldn't get the first two pictures to complete load. Only got about 3/4" of the top of each.

Connie

 

[L&Schickens]

Beautiful! what a great idea to use traffic cones. I love it!! I can't wait to get out and process me some chicknes now!!

 

[Fredster]

I killed and cleaned a Black Jersey Giant this afternoon. This time, I held the hose from the shop vac in one hand while I plucked with the other. Much faster and cleaner, because nothing sticks to the hands.

It might be a redneck way to do it, but it worked.

 

[ChickenToes]

Talk about redneck...today we butchered 11 roosters and after we cut their heads off, we stuck them down a length of stovepipe so they couldn't run all over the yard. It actually worked really well! Once they stopped 'twitching' we hung them upside down to drain and continued from there.

 

[Miltonchix]

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Looks like a KILL station to me. And a very effective one at that.

Maybe you should draw up some plans, a materials list, and directions to build it and sell them on eBay.

 

[WoundedEgo]

That is a nice station.

I don't have any detour cones, but I do have some sheet metal so I'd like to make some cones from that. Could anyone who owns a metal cone measure the two openings for me and post them in a reply? Thanks!

 

[Mydnight]

we're six weeks out on our cornish, and I am telling the fiance tonight that he gets to build me one KILL station in the next two weeks! Of course that is after the other coop gets finished. Thanks for the great idea!!

The idea about selling the plans on Ebay is a great idea. Maybe in a little ebook format. That way you don't have to print and send the paper stuff. Y'know, save some trees, build a kill station, eat chicken, YUM!!

 

[Mahonri]

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Agreed, a PROCESSING station is something that can catch on. I would make my T a little taller, cuz I'm a tall glass o water... and when I was a kid, I always hung the birds up high... it's just how I did it. I'd also probably use a wire hanger through two hooks to hook the feet while I cleaned the chicken, I always skin them to make it easier.

I've promised DW that I'll be dispatching two of the noisy roos soon!