LadyHK's "Cock-a-Doodle-Condo"

[eagle326]

lol. but I gotta ask again...

cone?

I have a few orange traffic cones I found abandoned by the roadside. Adjusted the small hole to accommodate head and neck and off to the frying pan we go.
Attach them to a backboard and have at it.

Or just hang upside down by feet and once they doze off , Off with their head !!!

[Sniper-T]

so you shove them head first into a traffic cone (of sorts) to isolate the head, and then behead them? Am I grasping this right? how tough is it to cone them? and why bother if you have hold of them anyways, why not just spin them?

I am clearly missing something here...

[bacpacker]

Supposedly it's more humane from what I've heard. Probably less (at least more contained) mess during the killing. If you chop off the head and turn them loose they run for a while and spray everywhere. I assume breaking the neck I have used Bloodmeal before in the garden, but I'm not sure what it's from. It carries a good mineral content for the dirt.

[Sniper-T]

I don't know about more humane... but more contained. I believe. whack and let it do the funky chicken under wraps. Either way, dead is dead, and nerve action is nerve action... it's just under wraps! either way, if it allows a squeem to do the deed, go nuts!

[eagle326]

so you shove them head first into a traffic cone (of sorts) to isolate the head, and then behead them? Am I grasping this right? how tough is it to cone them? and why bother if you have hold of them anyways, why not just spin them?

I am clearly missing something here...

It's just one way ; like hanging them by their feet upside down. As they pass out you do the deed and let them bleed out and sip some coffee. Then give them a nice hot bath. I've done it many ways and each one works fine. I cut off enough from the small opening at top of cone so they slide in nice and easy.

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Pretty much the same principle. We just pick up the chicken carry around hung up by his/her by their feet for a few. The cone we have is screwed to the tree (guess you'd need a picture?) but anyway head first into the cone. TURNing THE ASS AWAY FROM YOU, turn head and slice off with appropriate blade. Chicken bleeds out into bucket, no flopping, chicken ain't all jacked with adrenaline, make for better meat. Kinda like DRT big game.

[jamesneuen]

Any of you guys or gals wax dip yours to make plucking easier?

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

You're kidding right?

[jamesneuen]

about wax dipping them? nope. only really do it on the young ones that have the really fine feathers though. We did a big process at the start of each winter to cull out any non-egg producing chickens and any unreliable ones. We would freeze them till we wanted to eat them and then in the spring let the coop build back up again when they could start feeding themselves. Cut down a ton on how much feed we had to buy each winter.

[ladyhk13]

about wax dipping them? nope. only really do it on the young ones that have the really fine feathers though. We did a big process at the start of each winter to cull out any non-egg producing chickens and any unreliable ones. We would freeze them till we wanted to eat them and then in the spring let the coop build back up again when they could start feeding themselves. Cut down a ton on how much feed we had to buy each winter.

I'm not sure I follow. Wax dip (as in paraffin wax) instead of the hot waster and ice cool down bath to de feather? Seems like a very expensive way to go.