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[Starfire669]

Supplies? All you need is a sharp knife!

A sharp knife, a blood bucket, and the boiling water pot for de-feathering. lol. All found, now to clean the pot. I think I am going to try the milk jug method, cut the jug, stuff the chicken in upside down and slit throat. Let it bleed into the bucket, suppose to be a lot less mess and easier on the chicken, as well as less bruised carcass. Will see how it goes. I got 4 pain in the butt cockerels to try it on.

 

[RustedOak]

A sharp knife, a blood bucket, and the boiling water pot for de-feathering. lol. All found, now to clean the pot. I think I am going to try the milk jug method, cut the jug, stuff the chicken in upside down and slit throat. Let it bleed into the bucket, suppose to be a lot less mess and easier on the chicken, as well as less bruised carcass. Will see how it goes. I got 4 pain in the butt cockerels to try it on.

You'll be a pro by #4

 

[Starfire669]

You'll be a pro by #4

I know the chop of the head method very well. But I am looking for something a little less messy, lol. Don't enjoy the blood splatter after chopping a head. Figure with the chicken all tucked in snug in the milk jug it can't struggle and the blood will flow straight down into the bucket. Least I hope so. Some people claim that being so snug in the milk jug keeps the chicken calm as well. I always hypnotized the chickens before chopping. So they didn't struggle till After their head was off. I will let you know how this new method works compared to a hatchet/axe.

 

[RustedOak]

Question... I'm just about done with my a-frame chicken tractor and a thought came about. My 4 barred rocks are 8-9 weeks old and still a ways from laying... My tractor has two nesting boxes built in. I don't want my young girls to get in the habit of sleeping/pooping in the nesting boxes. Should I block them off so they can't get into them or just leave them be?

 

[Starfire669]

Question... I'm just about done with my a-frame chicken tractor and a thought came about. My 4 barred rocks are 8-9 weeks old and still a ways from laying... My tractor has two nesting boxes built in. I don't want my young girls to get in the habit of sleeping/pooping in the nesting boxes. Should I block them off so they can't get into them or just leave them be?

I would block them off. I left mine alone and my youngest pullets are now sleeping in them. Mine will be blocked off soon.

 

[Brookshire11]

Anyone here from the Houston/Galveston area? A pair of 6 week old white chinese geese were abandoned at a lake in the area. The people who are looking out for them can't keep them. The babies are living on the lake now. If anyone closer can take them look at the thread titled Someone dropped these off. If no one can take them I am willing to provide a home, but I am in the San Antonio area, and am terrified of Houston traffic. Please help us save these precious babies!

I hope they find help! I used to live north of Houston and drive downtown a few times a week for school. It's NOT fun. I think it's worse than Dallas traffic.

 

[TherryChicken]

Got 4 more things to. Do wi th my brooder, but then it'll aall be fixed again.

 

[Starfire669]

I hope they find help! I used to live north of Houston and drive downtown a few times a week for school. It's NOT fun. I think it's worse than Dallas traffic.

I shouldn't drive there because of my back injury. the minor nerve damage i have slows my reflexes down enough that I need to stay away from that kind of traffic. Otherwise I would have started the drive to get them immediately.

 

[TherryChicken]

Oh by the way, I have alot of stuff for sale, for animals and off topic. I would post where I'm supposed to, but never lets me.

 

[harley1975]

Question... I'm just about done with my a-frame chicken tractor and a thought came about. My 4 barred rocks are 8-9 weeks old and still a ways from laying... My tractor has two nesting boxes built in. I don't want my young girls to get in the habit of sleeping/pooping in the nesting boxes. Should I block them off so they can't get into them or just leave them be?

I would block them off. I would even go farther by make it where I could block them off even when they are bigger so you can block them off at nite. Make it where when it's morning you can move the block so they don't sleep in nest or go Broody by being able to get in the nest all the time.