We DID It! Sir Annoys Alot is in my Fridge! [pics]

[leasmom]

I think I would've liked to have done the broom method the first time I killed my rooster. It was such a horrific death because I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't have the proper equipment...I thought, you just need a knife, but I didn't realize that my 'chef' knives weren't sharp enough...and so this time I dropped off my four roosters to the processor which they did for $2.25 each. But maybe the next time I could do that method. I would prefer something like that just for my sake! Nicely done!!!

 

[Mahonri]

You did well.

I hope he is delicious

 

[MrsSmitho]

well, we did it.

We "mercy" killed my sick chicken. Luckiely she was so far gone, she didn't put up a fight when we did it SSOOO wrong

My DH tried to "stop" her heart by pinching on it...he has done that to smaller birds and had to do it with a pet bird once...but he thinks he either didn't get the whole heart or something...it may have worked, but his hand went numb...

so I did the broom method...

warning - top of the head, not the side of the neck !!!!

didn't think that worked, so I tried it a few diferen't ways....UUGGG

then on the way to the back fence, tried to ring her neck because it looked like she was still alive....around and around she went...

Yes folks, that sucked...she was dead, I just didn't give her time to quit moving

and out of the horror, went into the coop and found we have a couple more girls laying! 6 eggs today!! whoo-hoo

anyway...thanks you guys...

Kim

 

[halo]

Terrific job! Thanks for posting the pictures, I really appreciate it. Im getting closer and closer to being able to do this myself. I really think I want to try exactly what you did, just skinning, and removing the breast meat, thighs and legs. Can you expound a little on how you started the skinning process? Thanks.

 

[smom1976]

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ahhh so tramatic.... did you crush her head?? how do you pinch a heart? without going into the bird???

 

[estpr13]

Congratulations on processing your first bird. I have dispached chickens in a number of ways but have never heard of the broomstick method. It looks like a good method. I will have to try it later on today. (Already planned)

My father complains about chicken wings with blood in them because the wings are not tied up when the bird is being bled. So I tie the wing feathers to the feet when bleeding mine.

My thoughts on Children and processing birds.

I was introduced to processing rabbits and chickens when I was about 3 years old by my grandmother. Her thoughts on the matter were that the younger you are when introduced to it the more likely the child is to accept it as a normal part of life.

She showed me what I looked like inside under my skin and that I too could be food for animals.

She was right. I was never scarred for life and accepted it as a normal part of life. I think I respect life a lot more because have a better understanding of death.

 

[ricky bamboo]

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i think this method works on any living breathing creature as long as you are strong enough and have the intent of killing.

 

[ChickenTender63]

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I've never seen it used on chickens, but they slaughter rabbits that way. I imagine it works the same.

Congrats on offing your first roo!! Enjoy that meat

Most of the time on rabbits, you hold their back feet in your left hand, place his chin in the palm of your right hand and extend your thumb between his ears, stretch him out and snap the neck.

It is very simple and quick, and they don't even flinch.

 

[BethinIrving]

Before our chicks and geese arrived, there were all kinds of ideas about BBQ and a full freezer.

Thankfully I got the hens and geese first and ended up not ordering the roosters for the meat supply.

We are so attached to our little darlins, nobody in the household could kill one of them much less eat one of them.

I guess what I'll have to do is get someone else to do the deed, and I'll give them 1/2 of the birds -- if we decide to raise some meat.