A very good possibility, she wasn't a tall woman lol. They'd always talk how she'd walk out there, grab the meaner and do a quick flick of the wrist and no more. They never spoke about it flopping around like when they did larger quantities with an ax, so there's that too. But pappaw would tell us how they'd catch the roosters, chop and taler them flop. (Terrified my aunt at the time lol flopping chicken chasing her)
Yes. I struggle with it too. The cone method is the only method I can use. Less confronting for all concerned for an amateur anyway.
This was us. We had four Roos that were supposed to be hens. We culled two and I had planned on keeping the other two, but one roo kept trying to cover my girls and they kept running. Bertha, would chase him off and the other roo would attack him. My husband unfortunately couldn’t tell them apart and ended up culling the wrong roo. He had to go back and cull the one that kept attacking my girls. Now, we have no roos but the girls are much happier, even letting me pet them this morning while I was getting fresh water and hanging up their treats.
Good to hear, I’m hopeful we will experience the same as you. Yesterday we put one of our cockerels up for auction and I’m actually pretty sad about doing so. He was the alpha and one of two boys out of a flock of six so the situation was not good. He was not human aggressive but did chase the other boy around and the hens took a bot of a beating between the two. Still, he was a good cockerel but just in a bad situation not of his doing. We had them all since day two and consider them pets with benefits so giving him up was difficult for me and I find myself worrying about his well being. I know this make me a weenie and that he is just a chicken but he was my chicken. Anyway, I’m hopeful that my remaining flock will be more relaxed as are yours.
Unnecessary torment. Kill quickly, and with respect; anything else is below the standards of ethics, which is the stock in trade of animal farmers.
You open yourself up to being spurred otherwise
Caging the rooster in a separate area from the hens so they can't see or hear anything is more humane.It also calms them down. Tying his legs until he's in a cage is for your own protection until he's in a cage or pen .Once he's safe inside his cage you can untie his legs.I would never awaken a sleeping animal and kill it where the hens would hear it.Thats horrifying
I never once described killing him LOL
I’ve had roosters jump and flap twenty feet away to where my husband said, are you sure it’s dead?! 
