How to slaughter a chicken

[Twisted Titan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjy9H9u5dw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Twisted Titan]

Could have used a sharper blade

I wasnt too jazzed seeing all those flies buzzing around the processing area as they are major vectors of disease.

He should had some work gloves for processing

[collector]

Quick processing of a pig/hog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y6yGSVhX1g


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y6yGSVhX1g

[Celtic Rogue]

That was the worst chicken kill I have ever seen! WOW... Sharpen the axe and do it more quickly... He stressed the hell out of the poor bird!

[collector]

I think that chicken kill/clean demonstrated that anyone can do this, even a "city slicker" with a minimum of tools. I agree, the flies were not good and the axe needed sharpening, but it was a very down to earth demostration

[Cebu_4_2]

All my chickens ran/flew down the hill into the woods, stupid things didn't even have heads but made me work to find them. The cocks had nads that I thought were HUGE for such a little bird. After that episode I took them in to be taken care of. Then I learned that your supposed to hang them upside down and use snippers to cut their heads off and things go smooth. I haven't done it since, I don't mind the work of cleaning etc but I just can not take the life out of them... Someone chops the head and I'm a surgeon.

[Son-of-Liberty]

I have slaughtered a fair number of chickens and it is not a pleasant experience when you have to take their life.

I used the cone where you put them into it head first and then slit the jugular with a knife.

If I were to have more then a few bird to do I think it is probably worth the butchering costs.

[osoab]

I basically learned from this video.

I like the drum plucker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAJh9ehtTmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAJh9ehtTmA

[Mouse]

I prefer not to waste chickens I have raised, so I process them. I hang em up on a trot line upside down and cut their throats. When they are done, I either do the whole boil and pluck or just skin them and cut em up.

For turkeys or other stuff that you might get a whole bunch of at once, and don't care about waste.....

Put em breast side up, cut off the feet at the drumstick, cut around the skin at the joint of the drumstick. Slice the skin over breast and just yank all the skin off the breasts and as much of the bird as you can. Filet the breast meat off the bone without cutting into the abdomen. With the thighs and drums you want to take the thigh off without disturbing the abdomen. Just cut that sucker off. Peel off the remaining skin from the thigh and drumstick, rinse it off and you're done. Throw out the whole rest of that big dumb bird. No gutting, no nonsense, you get all the good meat and the rest of it for the wolves/raccoons in your area.

In the event of shtf I will save everything, but when you got a bunch of turkeys on huntin day, you can get shit done real quick like and get 90% of the goodies without hardly even getting your hands dirty. Let the vultures deal with the guts.