What is the most humane way of killing a chicken?

[eatwhatyougrow]

I use a killing cone, slice the the neck with a very sharp knife, allows the heart to pump out the blood, and the cone keeps them from flopping around and they are gone pretty quick only takes a few seconds for them to bleed out. then into the water (if i am plucking) and then the processing and then the brine bath.
However when i am feeling lazy and have more than a dozen birds to do at once, there is this great Amish family up the road that for a buck fifty has them all put together in neat little bags for me when i come back to pick them up. i would have to say that is most painless way for me to process them...

 

[AmericanMom]

hubby made a couple homemade killing cones...I have never been able to cull our animals, that was always hubbys job but I have no problem slitting their throats while they are in the cones, they are restricted from moving and its quick and easy...

also agree on not feeding them the night before they go to the happy chicken farm in the sky...makes cleaning a lot easier..

 

[AmericanMom]

I use a killing cone, slice the the neck with a very sharp knife, allows the heart to pump out the blood, and the cone keeps them from flopping around and they are gone pretty quick only takes a few seconds for them to bleed out. then into the water (if i am plucking) and then the processing and then the brine bath.
However when i am feeling lazy and have more than a dozen birds to do at once, there is this great Amish family up the road that for a buck fifty has them all put together in neat little bags for me when i come back to pick them up. i would have to say that is most painless way for me to process them...

LOL.. I need one of those families..

Culling out some of the rabbits next weekend...Got 7 that are 5 months old now..

 

[JadedPhoenix]

My husband has no problem doing away with my extra roosters and yes they do eat them. I am just curious what is the best most stress free way for the chicken? He usually snaps their neck at night when they are asleep in the coop. Is this the best way?

A woman at work will slit their throats then pet them as they die. I think I'll just get them while in the coop though. I don't think I'd be able to pet a chicken to death.

 

[mrchicks]

We use a cone and a scalpel. It's over in mere seconds. For us, that is the easiest/kindest way for us to do a job that neither of us like to do.

 

[Beekissed]

A woman at work will slit their throats then pet them as they die. I think I'll just get them while in the coop though. I don't think I'd be able to pet a chicken to death.

I've seen that!!! They have a vid on YT where the lady pets and taps on a poor chicken until I'm sure it's mentally begging to die before she ever cuts the throat.

 

[mrchicks]

I've seen that!!! They have a vid on YT where the lady pets and taps on a poor chicken until I'm sure it's mentally begging to die before she ever cuts the throat.

OMG, now I have heard it all. *shakes head*

 

[LindaB220]

I've seen that!!! They have a vid on YT where the lady pets and taps on a poor chicken until I'm sure it's mentally begging to die before she ever cuts the throat.

You are so bad.

 

[Beekissed]

You are so bad.

Whaaa? Didn't you see the desperation in that poor chicken's face? It was begging the viewer, "Tell her to kill me NOW! Now, I beg you! This tapping and pawing at my body is driving me mad! MAD, I say! Please, please, please....oh, please, make it stop!"

 

[bobbi-j]

Whaaa?  Didn't you see the desperation in that poor chicken's face?  It was begging the viewer, "Tell her to kill me NOW!  Now, I beg you!  This tapping and pawing at my body is driving me mad!  MAD, I say! Please, please, please....oh, please, make it stop!"