This is how I did the broomstick method. I've heard about it, and I'm glad I tried it because it was so easy.
First off, I was ****** at him at the time, which helps put you in the right mindset to get it done. I walked in the henhouse and saw a hen he had beat up on and I was very motivated. So I took a 4' broomstick handle from the shed and I had the rooster by the legs hanging upside down in one hand. When the rooster stopped flapping and just hung still, I laid the broomstick over the back of his neck and stepped on each end of the broomstick, trapping his head. Then I pulled up on his legs and his head came off. It was quick and suprisingly easy. There was some blood but it wasn't nearly as bad as when we butcher meat birds. I just stepped away let him lay for a while so I didn't get splattered.
I've always dreaded the killing part when we butchered chickens and made my husband do the head chopping part. But this was easier. I didn't want to ask my husband to do this deed for me because I figured this was my problem to deal with since they are my chickens and I was the one who kept too many roosters.
Lisa
First off, I was ****** at him at the time, which helps put you in the right mindset to get it done. I walked in the henhouse and saw a hen he had beat up on and I was very motivated. So I took a 4' broomstick handle from the shed and I had the rooster by the legs hanging upside down in one hand. When the rooster stopped flapping and just hung still, I laid the broomstick over the back of his neck and stepped on each end of the broomstick, trapping his head. Then I pulled up on his legs and his head came off. It was quick and suprisingly easy. There was some blood but it wasn't nearly as bad as when we butcher meat birds. I just stepped away let him lay for a while so I didn't get splattered.
I've always dreaded the killing part when we butchered chickens and made my husband do the head chopping part. But this was easier. I didn't want to ask my husband to do this deed for me because I figured this was my problem to deal with since they are my chickens and I was the one who kept too many roosters.
Lisa
