- Apr 7, 2008
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My dear BF and I have a dilemna as to how to kill a meat bird.
I have killed and processed a turkey and a young rooster earlier this spring. My brother-in-law helped me. I held down the body and my brother-in-law streteched the neck of the bird out and chopped it off with an axe. It was not as hard as I thought it would be. The birds were used to being around people so were not agitated. They obviously knew something different was happening, but they were not fighting against me like a wild animal would.
I have raised a broad-breasted white turkey and she is now full size and ready to process. My dear BF is a hunter, yearly goes duck hunting as well as turkey hunting. He is not uncomfortable about killing birds, etc.
Our dilemna: He has never been close to the animals he's killed. And he has watched many wild animal shows where a bag was placed over the animal's head during tagging and noticed it calmed the animal. Also he feels it is out of dignity to the bird to put a bag over it's head during butchering.
I wanted to get your opinion on processing a bird. Do any of you place a small black bag on their heads prior to butchering?
I worry it might actually aggitate the birds further. Also reminds me of an old west hanging!
Please let me know your experiences and thoughts.
mjolly
I have killed and processed a turkey and a young rooster earlier this spring. My brother-in-law helped me. I held down the body and my brother-in-law streteched the neck of the bird out and chopped it off with an axe. It was not as hard as I thought it would be. The birds were used to being around people so were not agitated. They obviously knew something different was happening, but they were not fighting against me like a wild animal would.
I have raised a broad-breasted white turkey and she is now full size and ready to process. My dear BF is a hunter, yearly goes duck hunting as well as turkey hunting. He is not uncomfortable about killing birds, etc.
Our dilemna: He has never been close to the animals he's killed. And he has watched many wild animal shows where a bag was placed over the animal's head during tagging and noticed it calmed the animal. Also he feels it is out of dignity to the bird to put a bag over it's head during butchering.
I wanted to get your opinion on processing a bird. Do any of you place a small black bag on their heads prior to butchering?
I worry it might actually aggitate the birds further. Also reminds me of an old west hanging!
Please let me know your experiences and thoughts.
mjolly
My husband hunts as well but if he kills something it is eaten by our family....my thoughts were always that you kill for food not for just the fun of it.... We have the motto....you kill it you eat it.....Ive never heard of anyone just killing an animal and then walking off.
