Chicken Farming

Cork24

I am thinking of breading Chickens / ducks,

i am to give them the best life as they can have, free Range walk around at all times etc.

but when it comes to killing i dont want to cut the throat as it seems to cause alot of stress on the birds. i was looking at more like Shooting them at close range aiming at the head.

have an one got ways to kill birds that dont cause to much stress to them

1chippy

it might be a better option to plant some willow and a garden.:rolleyes:

Hay_man

Cork24 wrote: »

I i was looking at more like Shooting them at close range aiming at the head.

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LOL is this a joke?

Cork24

Hay_man wrote: »

Cork24 wrote: »

I i was looking at more like Shooting them at close range aiming at the head.

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LOL is this a joke?

No, I have seen this done a few times, people would shoot them, with out the mess of cutting their necks

redzerologhlen

Cork24 wrote: »

I am thinking of breading Chickens / ducks,

i am to give them the best life as they can have, free Range walk around at all times etc.

but when it comes to killing i dont want to cut the throat as it seems to cause alot of stress on the birds. i was looking at more like Shooting them at close range aiming at the head.

have an one got ways to kill birds that dont cause to much stress to them

Break their necks, I always have to do it for the girlfriends auld pair.

gozunda

Cork24 wrote: »

I am thinking of breading Chickens / ducks,

i am to give them the best life as they can have, free Range walk around at all times etc.

but when it comes to killing i dont want to cut the throat as it seems to cause alot of stress on the birds. i was looking at more like Shooting them at close range aiming at the head.

have an one got ways to kill birds that dont cause to much stress to them

Shooting chucks aint really an option unless your an expert marksman and even then a bit messy imo

keep it simple

Try one of these LINK

Anyway if you are going to dispatch / process / sell them direct you will need to follow DOA guidelines

otherwise you may be prosecuted.....

Cork24

gozunda wrote: »

Shooting chucks aint really an option unless your an expert marksman and even then a bit messy imo

keep it simple

Try one of these LINK

Anyway if you are going to dispatch / process / sell them direct you will need to follow DOA guidelines

otherwise you may be prosecuted.....

Thanks for that link,

i take it from reading all you need to do is place the neck in the Wall Mount and close it will do the rest.

Sam Kade

Cork24 wrote: »

I am thinking of breading Chickens / ducks,

i am to give them the best life as they can have, free Range walk around at all times etc.

but when it comes to killing i dont want to cut the throat as it seems to cause alot of stress on the birds. i was looking at more like Shooting them at close range aiming at the head.

have an one got ways to kill birds that dont cause to much stress to them

What are you planning to shoot them with a shotgun :eek:

gozunda

Cork24 wrote: »

Thanks for that link,

i take it from reading all you need to do is place the neck in the Wall Mount and close it will do the rest.

yes more or less, the device comes with instructions.

some people use a stunning device to depends on the size of the operation

its important that to hang the chicken upside down to let the blood drain from the body once it has been slaughtered

Depending where you are based there are also a number of poultry processing plants (DOA approved) that you bring fowl to and they are processed there and then. Might be an idea to look these up. Do you know anyone who has experience of raising fowl by any chance - its not for the faint heated tbh.

20silkcut

Cut the top off a traffic cone. Stuff the chicken in to it and pull it's head.

Cork24

gozunda wrote: »

yes more or less, the device comes with instructions.

some people use a stunning device to depends on the size of the operation

its important that to hang the chicken upside down to let the blood drain from the body once it has been slaughtered

Depending where you are based there are also a number of poultry processing plants (DOA approved) that you bring fowl to and they are processed there and then. Might be an idea to look these up. Do you know anyone who has experience of raising fowl by any chance - its not for the faint heated tbh.

No i dont, i goes shooting for Rabbits birds etc.. but never came this close to killing some living thing

bbam

Of course you don't have to kill animals just because you rear them.
Actually many of us do our best to keep our animals alive and sell them that way.

Whatever about your ability to keep animals it doesn't sound like you
Should be killing them. It's not a game and if not done properly inflicts suffering.

Actually im calling troll on this thread, only an idiot would think trying to shoot a chicken in the head is the best way to kill it.

Cork24

bbam wrote: »

Of course you don't have to kill animals just because you rear them.
Actually many of us do our best to keep our animals alive and sell them that way.

Whatever about your ability to keep animals it doesn't sound like you
Should be killing them. It's not a game and if not done properly inflicts suffering.

Actually im calling troll on this thread, only an idiot would think trying to shoot a chicken in the head is the best way to kill it.

lol, troll... right move along now boy.. Should i sell live chickens who cant lay eggs no more.. :rolleyes: what oh what should happen to them ? maybe some one else would kill them for them selfs no, or is their a place that chickens can live out their lifes in this country ? maybe chicken paradise

and only an idiot would think of trying to shoot chickens ? well alot of people would say goes this way others like you not so much, some have used Shotguns some have used BB guns some like cutting the whole head off some like cutting the neck others love breaking the neck, comes down to what you think is best really

kerryjack

I think your a bit trigger happy going shooting chickens in the head i don't think you know much about chickens and i certainly would not let you have a gun and if you have a gun hand it in to the nearest station before you do yourself harm or harm others with it.

pakalasa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adfipy3lp9o

Black Smoke

Electric chair is the way to go. You can kill 'em, and cook 'em all in one operation, and sell them oven ready:cool:

Timmaay

Sam Kade wrote: »

What are you planning to shoot them with a shotgun :eek:

Nay get with the times, I hear a semi automatic weapon is the most efficient from an efficiency/cost point of view, if you want all the bells and whistles you can go with a fully automatic, likes of below, its abit overkill in my view :P

Hay_man

Black Smoke wrote: »

Electric chair is the way to go. You can kill 'em, and cook 'em all in one operation, and sell them oven ready:cool:

A bit old school

Lethal injection is the most humane way to do them IMO

enricoh

apparently pipe bombs are cheap as chips to make n with a bit of googling u should get all the info u need. just lob one in at feeding time n with a bit of luck it might even save u plucking n cutting into portion sizes

Cork24

kerryjack wrote: »

I think your a bit trigger happy going shooting chickens in the head i don't think you know much about chickens and i certainly would not let you have a gun and if you have a gun hand it in to the nearest station before you do yourself harm or harm others with it.

LOL, Trigger happy far from it..

do myself harm or others i dont think so, i am very careful where i shoot and what i shoot at. i know alot of chickens, had them before only hens to lay eggs.. never used them as food.

Manoffeeling

Two chickens walking down the road, one on each side on the footpath. The first chicken shouts across to the second chicken "yo chicken, come on over here to the other side of the road". The second chicken shouts back, "but I already am on the other side of the road!!"

Black Smoke

Timmaay wrote: »

Nay get with the times, I hear a semi automatic weapon is the most efficient from an efficiency/cost point of view, if you want all the bells and whistles you can go with a fully automatic, likes of below, its abit overkill in my view :P

But that would be classified by the Guards as "fowl play"

bob charles

this along the lines what you were thinking of doing, personally I prefer to stick them in the vice

Sam Kade

Farmer Pudsey

gozunda wrote: »

Shooting chucks aint really an option unless your an expert marksman and even then a bit messy imo

keep it simple

Try one of these LINK

Anyway if you are going to dispatch / process / sell them direct you will need to follow DOA guidelines

otherwise you may be prosecuted.....

If you only have a few this is a bit expensive I am sure you have a garden loppers if not buy one for 5-10 euro's it will do the same job

gozunda

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

gozunda wrote: »

Shooting chucks aint really an option unless your an expert marksman and even then a bit messy imo

keep it simple

Try one of these LINK

Anyway if you are going to dispatch / process / sell them direct you will need to follow DOA guidelines

otherwise you may be prosecuted.....

If you only have a few this is a bit expensive I am sure you have a garden loppers if not buy one for 5-10 euro's it will do the same job

Errhhhhh ? I don't think pound shop garden loppers would be particarly useful for the OP in dispatching chickens....potential for half decapitated chooks running around the field imo

Farmer Pudsey

gozunda wrote: »

Errhhhhh ? I don't think pound shop garden loppers would be particarly useful for the OP in dispatching chickens....potential for half decapitated chooks running around the field imo

It woiuld do exactly the same job hold chicken by legs, have loppers open on the ground held in position by your foot insert chicken neck, push down handle. Hold chicken firmly while it flaps about. You could also hang chicken upside down and use two hand to use loppers the chickem will not be running around.

Not for the squemish however works vvery well very handy if you have artritus in the hands and cannot break there necks

We always just used a hatchet, i never realised untill then where the term "running like a headless chicken" came from. The Chicken ran 20 feet without a head.:eek

This is one freaky article, have a look
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

How to do it right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTz1WDhgE04&feature=related

cj maxx

both chicken legs in one hand.
other hand, hold where base of head/neck meet ,between knucles of 1st and 2nd finger.
pull to dislocate the head and hang chicky up . blood fills into the gap, no mess (unless ya pull too hard , like everything:))
bit handier than trying to pick them of with a .22

deadman1972

TBH if you are fussing this much over killing chooks then maybe it isn't the thing for you at all, and as for shooting them are you serious?

mf240

deadman1972 wrote: »

TBH if you are fussing this much over killing chooks then maybe it isn't the thing for you at all, and as for shooting them are you serious?

Maybe hes chicken.


sorry