What Knife do younuse to slaughter the birds?

[QueenieBelleB]

Our first batch of meat chickens, we did a nose and yanked the head off and the broomstick method. However we are about to butcher our first ducks soon. We prefered using a noose over the broomstick but we are concerned doing that method with ducks. We want to try slitting the throat with a good knife. I am unsure what knife to get. Google says a henosuki knife?? We are terriblee at keeping our kitchen knives sharp. I want a good knife that will stay sharp.

 

[iwltfum]

I've never met a knife that stayed sharp for very long while making the jugular cut (I get about 20-25 cuts before I need to resharpen). There are so many knives that will do the job, but there are some styles/lengths/widths that you may appreciate more or less. I like Dexter knives for butchering personally. I usually get them from webstaraunt. But you need to go through a poultry specific site like strombergs for the sticking knives. My go-to for the jugular cut is this one from Stromberg's: poultry sticking knife

 

[iwltfum]

There are really good electric sharpeners out there that make dumb and quick work out of knife sharpening. I would seriously look into a high quality counter top sharpener if you aren't comfortable with a sharpening stone