Re: whack em and stack em vs hacking them
- From: OmManiPadmeOmelet <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:59:18 -0500
In article <Xns96D898020A1DEdanny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
diddy <diddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I said I got my roosters and chopped their heads off. Which was quick, but
> a bit messy.
>
> I was told it was easier to clean the necks (and save feathers for resale)
> if you whacked em in the back of the heads, cleaned them, and THEN cut off
> their heads.
That's what I do, but I also cut just the front of the throat after
whacking them as they need to bleed. Do it right and it's not messy.
Plust you save the blood in a bowl of water for the rose bushes. ;_)
> So with roosters now old enough to tyrranize the hens. They are all
> screaming and running from roos, and the roos are NOT gentlemen, I decided
> it was time to thin the roo populations again (I so wish K'Lamity Klem
> hadn't met his untimely death to tractor, when he ruled the roost, the hens
> felt safe in his company, and not terrorized) With Klem gone, I've
> experienced my first predation losses since his arrival.
> The roos are attacking my horse for getting in the way of the hens (who ran
> under her legs to get away from the roosters)
> Ok, so I decided to off some roosters (made a wonderful turnip/rooster soup
> yesterday.. yum!) and i went out with a ball bat, and whacked one in the
> head. It flopped, and recovered and jumped back up! (Not what I expected or
> wanted!) And i caught up with it, whacked it, and the scene repeated.
I restrain and use a piece of metal pipe.
One good HARD whack (usually followed by 1 or two more just to be sure)
kills quick. The body trembles if you do it right, then spasms. I hold
legs and wings together and stretch the neck out and whack HARD at the
base of the skull. Then cut the throat after it trembles before it
starts trying to flop.
> OK, this rooster has a Kevlar head, or I'm doing something wrong. How hard
> do you have to hit these things? I think I'm getting a bit gun shy now. I'm
> sure if I hit a human that hard, it would have killed them? I may just
> stick with hacking them. Because whacking them just seems cruel. Need to
> work on my technique!
Don't pull your punch.
--
Om.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson
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