Emotional support needed to kill mean rooster

[Viksceeks]

I like the idea of home grown meat a lot. I've never killed anything but this guy attacked my son unprovoked, and tried attacking me today, I'm not about that. I've watched a few cone videos, too bad a can't get a guillotine

 

[BantyChooks]

So I've been playing around with the idea of raising meat chickens lately but I don't know if I have the guts to kill them when it's time has come. But now I have a rooster that needs to go he is mean. So this seems like as good as time as any to try out the butchering process before I decide to raise meat chickens. Is there any Humane quick ways to off the rooster where I wouldn't have to look at him. I think if I didn't physically see him when I was doing it it would be a lot easier

Not really. Broomsticking, which I see you've already read up on, is the least hands-on, IMO.
It's hard to fail unless you quit pulling. If you're at all unsure about if it's completed or not, keep pulling until the head comes off entirely.
I use manual CD or broomsticking for all my birds. I find that it provides a satisfactory bleed if you take the head off immediately afterwards.

 

[Viksceeks]

Not really. Broomsticking, which I see you've already read up on, is the least hands-on, IMO.
It's hard to fail unless you quit pulling. If you're at all unsure about if it's completed or not, keep pulling until the head comes off entirely.
I use manual CD or broomsticking for all my birds. I find that it provides a satisfactory bleed if you take the head off immediately afterwards.

Not really. Broomsticking, which I see you've already read up on, is the least hands-on, IMO.
It's hard to fail unless you quit pulling. If you're at all unsure about if it's completed or not, keep pulling until the head comes off entirely.
I use manual CD or broomsticking for all my birds. I find that it provides a satisfactory bleed if you take the head off immediately afterwards.

That's why I was leaning towards that idea. I figured I can just close my eyes or throw a towel over him too. He's pretty flighty though so I've also thought about tying down his wings before I start

 

[BantyChooks]

That's why I was leaning towards that idea. I figured I can just close my eyes or throw a towel over him too. He's pretty flighty though so I've also thought about tying down his wings before I start

That's a good idea. They don't squirm while you're pulling, but afterwards, the reflexes are pretty violent and will bruise your shins.

 

[slordaz]

an elderly lady showed me how to do it here, but not sure you could keep a mean rooster calm enough. you prep knife, pan of hot water out of site of the flock, Lay chicken on the ground until it is calm, then quick slice with said sharp knife on the neck. When they are calm lots easier to not have such a hard time, and they will not jump all over the place even after head is severed.

 

[Quackter]

So I've been playing around with the idea of raising meat chickens lately but I don't know if I have the guts to kill them when it's time has come. But now I have a rooster that needs to go he is mean. So this seems like as good as time as any to try out the butchering process before I decide to raise meat chickens. Is there any Humane quick ways to off the rooster where I wouldn't have to look at him. I think if I didn't physically see him when I was doing it it would be a lot easier

This is the classic. "everybody loves bacon, nobody wants to smell the pigs" The killing isn't the good part, but you like eating chicken right?
**Cringe warning, there is a point, skip between the ** if you want.
*****Here's one way you can look at it, a chicken that you bought at the store, most likely, hatched, got dumped on a table, was "lucky enough to get thrown in a tote destine for a brooder, (his sister got dropped into a grinder), after two weeks in a brooder with a couple thousand more he gets set down in a saw dust covered barn floor, that becomes increasingly overcrowded as they grow, no roost, no grass, maybe a little sunshine peaking through, that sawdust will not be changed in his 10 week short life, after a while he won't be able to walk as he has been bred to eat until his joints fail, he'll crawl between the feeder and waterer on his knees, until one day he will be stuffed into a crowded crate too short for him to stand, (if he could), he'll be loaded trucked without food or water for up to couple days, sat on a dock, his throat will be cut with a disposable knife before they even lift him out of the crate, hung on a line, and the machines take over. Awful, yes. The absolute brutal truth.****

How does this "support" you? You're chicken, from the moment you got him, has been with his flock, has had room to run, flap his wings, scratch, chase bugs, crow, chase the hens, eat the grass, set on a roost at night, eat treats I'm sure...all the stuff chickens love. It's part of life, and you gave him a good one.
Every chicken meat chicken you raise yourself, is one that has a good short life, compared to the reality of the alternative. The same goes for eggers, instead of having half their beak cut off, set down in a box for two years until they are rotated out and become Vienna sausages and dog food.

Give him a good last day, give him a quick death, teach hands-on your children where meat comes from, one of the reason farm kids are such solid people. You'll be doing more for the welfare of animals than a hundred PETA hipsters holding signs or complaining about it on their iphones.

Just my opinion, not judging anyone for their's.

 

[aart]

It's not easy to kill your first chicken, a mean rooster helps...some.
I had one sequestered all winter while I got my equipment ready and my nerve up.
This blog helped the most, where to slit neck and get vent out without piercing intestines.
Wrote this thread as a catharsis of my first slaughter.
You can do it @Viksceeks !

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

We recently butchered a mean rooster and excess cockerels. We drove two nails into a stump, covered the eyes with a washcloth, and used a machete to decapitate.

 

[pennyJo1960]

See that would work also Dad had like several lined up neighbors would join 200 birds done in afternoon

 

[adickenscoop]

There is no humane way to kill an animal. He isn't being mean, he is probably just being a good rooster and trying to protect his hens. Why not bring him to your local animal shelter?