What tool do you use???

[SIMPleChick]

I have been doing a lot of reading on how to "dispatch" a chicken. Many bleed them out with a knife, or chop with an axe, yank with your own hands, and I know there are neck breaking tools. So what do you use??
Knife
Axe/Hatchet
Wall mounted dispatcher
Hand held dispatcher tool
your own hands
etc...

And do you just bleed them out or hack the whole head off???

I have read all the posts here on how to do it but I want to see who does what and which way is more popular/easier? THANKS!!!

 

[Dogfish]

Less than $4 at Home Depot. It has lasted a 70 bird day and a 95 bird day. Sharp, quick, done.

 

[pringle]

My dad usually just chops the head off with a hatchet,but if you are not use to a hatchet I would go for slitting the throat in a killing cone.For quail I hit the back of there heads on a wooden table which will instantly kill them then I cut there heads off with a pair of poultry shears.

 

[terri9630]

We use a buck knife and remove the whole head.

 

[chickens friend]

Put chicken into a traffic cone with the cone upside down, grab the head and pull it through the hole, then take a pair of pruning shears and completely cut off the head. With this the struggling is almost none, and it is a clean, quick kill.

 

[booker81]

I use a scalpel to cut the jugular on one side

Easy, fairly inexpensive when you get a box of blades, and SUPER sharp.

 

[BoomChickaRocka]

Hatchet for dispatch pen knife for everything else. just like the ancients! My Grandfather taught me this way and its the most efficient way i have ever found

 

[donrae]

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This. We tie them upside down from a line/branch/etc. Honey holds the head in one hand and makes a quick clean sweep with the other. VERY sharp buck knife.

 

[CowgirlJules]

I use scalpel blades too, but mine are on a folding knife from Havalon. I use those things for everything, deer, sheep, chickens, bear, everything. They're fantastic and won't stick you through your pocket.

 

[terri9630]

Quote:
This. We tie them upside down from a line/branch/etc. Honey holds the head in one hand and makes a quick clean sweep with the other. VERY sharp buck knife.

That's what we do. Our peach tree has a branch at the perfect height to hang them from with enough empty space below/around it so they don't break a wing.