Slaughtering methods...

[Yukonchick]

You stole my little chicks with the pistols, LOL. Thats ok. I stole it off the internet somewhere!

 

[amber t]

I also have the one with an egg helmet and an ar15

 

[Yukonchick]

LOL,

I luv that pic, especially his little egg shell helmet.!

 

[Cryptkeeper]

I use an orange traffic cone. Makes cleaning it really easy.

 

[AinaWGSD]

We use plastic grocery bags and duct tape (although we've also been known to use clear packing tape when we couldn't track down the duct tape). Cut a hole through one bottom corner of the bag, slip it over the bird's head, and secure the bag in several places (at least at the base of the neck and around the wings just behind the shoulders, we usually go around the feet too) with the tape, then hang the bird over a bucket for the slicing. We usually sit in a folding chair and hold the birds in our lap for the actual cut, then lower them into the bucket to bleed. We line the buckets with black trash bags both to contain the mess as much as possible and to provide a dark place for them to spend their last minutes to reduce the stress on the birds. Granted, this works best if you have some sort of frame or rafters to hang them from (we do ours in the garage and hang them from the rafters).

For me, slitting vs cutting the head off comes down largely to my own squeemishness. I find the bird with the head still on to be less disturbing to me when I am plucking. But when researching how to butcher my own chickens I had red in several sources that it is better to slit the throat and let them bleed out because you get a more complete bleed due to the heart pumping longer than if you just cut the head off.

 

[Yukonchick]

Ya I'm gonna try it out on two chickens tomorrow.

 

[Yukonchick]

Ya, thats exactly what i wanted to know. Blood in the meat probably makes the meat not taste as good. My last chickens had an odd kind of flavor. Not bad tasting but you got kind of tired of the taste of it and could eat much chicken. Those chickens I lopped the heads off with an axe.

 

[bobbi-j]

We're head-loppers. I've never noticed a problem with blood in the meat.

 

[FlaRocky]

I have some shoe strings that have a slip knot on each end(clearance), slip over feet hang on fence post and bleed out. Scaple to cut, also brain kill. Dig hole at base of fence post for blood. Do 6 at a time, 2 to a post. Have my pot of hot water heated and ready with a squirt of Dawn in the water. I use a camp stove and candy thermometer. I heat to 180', swirl in water, check feathers, dip in cold water to stop heat. Feathers wipe right off, then pull flight feathers and finish processing. I don't worry if they flap wings for a bit, helps pump the blood out.

To scrape the lungs out I use an old grapefruit spoon bent at an angle.

Maye

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[Yukonchick]

No, i never noticed either the last time i did that years ago. Heres the two i did today by the slash method.