I’ve never been a fan of cutting the chickens throat and letting it bleed out. To me, it just seems like a life time for them to die. When doing broiler chickens, I personally cut the head clean off in one swipe, let the blood drain into buckets and then use it later on for composting. Gonna have to try this method though and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing. 👍
It is a long time for them. Most animals that are smaller than humans see time differently than we do- literally. For them they experience moments much more in detail and longer than we do as humans, which is part of why they have such a good reaction. The few seconds of bleeding out to them, would be many minutes of experience for a human in terms of how much their brain and feelings are in those moments.
@@Kebbab.213 No, it's true that smaller animals have faster reaction times and different concept of time. It's why it's so damn difficult to swat flies.
Your son was exactly right! Humans and animals are electrical being and when they flap it’s basically their energy coming out 😊 super smart kid! Way to go!
Chickens don't just flap around, they often run around. The body can live for months if you feed it through a funnel, in one case even a year. It's because the bird has a spirit like every other animal and it's still in the same place as when the head was there and still controlling the body. I read an account of a chicken running down a narrow path after being beheaded. It's not just electricity.
@@jimketchum3169it had top half its head cut off but still had enough to function normally including the beak and the brain, it didnt have eyes so the owner had to feed it himself
I'm a new backyard chicken owner. I was super impressed with your empathy. Thanks for a great video and I admire you teaching your child. Food doesn't come from the grocery store, just purchased there...
New Chicken keeper here with a paralyzed bird about to use your method. This video was very honest and straight forward. Cheers to you for teaching your child to treat animals with empathy.
Best video on the subject. This guy demonstrates so much compassion and respect. I just had to dispatch a sick chicken, and it's pretty hard, when you know the bird and are fond of her.
Thank you for your video we have a neighbor who's rooster is 8 years old and very sick. they didn't have the heart to do the deed, my daughter and I watched your video. We were able to replicate the dislocation with great success and no pain to the rooster. thank you for the kindness you taught your son, I also taught my daughter.
They flap because there are chemical/electrical differences between the muscles that all get zeroed at the same time and its like waves on the surface of water after a bucket has been submerged. It will go until the surface level (in a muscle voltage) is equal on both inside and outside the bucket or inside and outside the all cells.
This is the only video I can tolerate watching, I seriously want to learn this in case of something bad happening like a war and I have to retreat somewhere, this was exponentially easier to watch than other videos! Especially since you checked with your son, you explained the flapping well, and you focused on the animals comfort! And I’m so happy you focused on your son too! Thank you!
I’m very sensitive about things like this. Hearing you and your son and you talk about these things in a respectful and scientific manner is really helpful. My boyfriend and I wish to have a farm one day and these are things I may have to learn. Thank you so much for making this video !
Thank you for the straightforward understanding, this really helped me out when a chick wiped out my whole flock with disease and we had no idea how to cull. Thank you!
Thanks for showing this. We have a hen who has stopped laying for months. I'm very impressed with the way you showed your son the process. It's so important, especially in this day and age, to understand and value where our food comes from. I have no doubt whatsoever that your chickens have received the highest standards of care.
Thank you for sharing how to compassionately dispatch a hen. One of my hens had a prolapsed vent which went back in with Epsom soaks but I saw it had an abrasion before she pulled it back in. I suspected she wouldn’t recover. It’s been two weeks today is her last. She was a sweet hen who laid a lot of great eggs. She will be missed ❤
Thanks for showing the different methods so calmly. I’m a new chicken owner and you definitely gave me the confidence I needed to cull two of my roosters. Your son is adorable by the way and I love that he’s able to be with you for this. It’s so important for kids to be a part of everything that happens on the farm. Great job dad 😊
Thank you so much for this especially on the roosters. Our favorite gentle big Golden Wyandotte developed an infected toe that looked like it got to the bone. We nursed him 2 wks without improvement. This helped us let him go and keeping his body whole.. We gave him a sea burial off our dock as we are over in SE Alaska. Looks like you are in BC Thanks so much again.
I have only had chickens for a little over a year and now the dreaded time has come. I have a chicken with a bad leg and getting worse, I got close to my chicken so it makes it harder now. Thanks for posting
So very informative and helpful! As a new homesteader, this gives some great options, and especially appreciate ideas for methods that don't require expensive equipment.
Thank you for making it so easy to understand. I just had to cull 3 young roosters. The first didn't go so well and I feel like crap now. The other 2 went the fast. Now I know approx how hard to pull, I appreciate you showing from begging to end it helped a lot.
Thank you Phil. I needed this information and the Broomstick method was easy, quick, and humane. I appreciate the respect with which you present this information.
Thank you for your detailed showing and description of cervical dislocation. My favorite hen is sick past fixing, and I have to help her (pretty sure she’s at the end stage of cancer) - for the first time I have no one to do it for me. I’ve been spoiled to have help! I feel much more capable after watching you cull your Barred Rock rooster. I am certain I will be able to have a quick and clean kill now. Your son is adorable. I hope he’s still loving to eat chicken! 😊
Thank you for this video. We have an older hen who is not doing well, & I feel more confident about being able to humanely cull her after watching this.
Thank you for this information, I live in a small town that does not allow roosters and I didn't want to kill him, but you gave me the most humane way to do so and I feel better about it.
I agree with you. First time owner of my own flock, but was raised with them. This was very helpful to learn the best ways to cull without any pain or the most humane way. I appreciate that many people cut the throat, but to me, I’d worry that they’d be too aware and in pain for that time and I’m not sure that I’d use that way. I’ve heard of the broomstick method and it was nice to see you thoroughly show how to do this. I have about 70 chickens. Maybe 20 are roosters and I obviously do not need that many and some are very mean. I just hadn’t been ready to cull yet and wasn’t sure the best way to do so. I feel more comfortable now and will probably downsize soon. It’s important for me to keep some roosters, as we live in an area where we can and some of the roosters have the best personalities, but other than companionship for me, they don’t really hold a purpose. We don’t have our chickens hatch eggs, though I do have some broody silkies, I just rotate the eggs out. Again, thank you for your compassion towards these chickens/roosters and it’s a wonderful thing you are teaching your children.
Excellent instruction! Yes, whether you’re raising five chickens or fifty, eventually you’re going to encounter sickness or injury. Or you might need to provide meat for the table. This is what you do, and these are a couple of humane methods.
THANK YOU!!! It's hard to find anybody actually showing you how to do this but it's necessary bc you want to do it right. So yes, thank you for your help. I have a handful of roosters and a chicken that can't walk anymore so I desperately needed this information.
Thanks. I have to do this today and I appreciate your serious and respectful attitude toward your birds. Your thoroughness of explanation is extremely helpful for such a tough but necessary task. I feel sad but at least I now feel more prepared.
When we first started raising chickens back in the 70s, we had this Crazy Rooster that had to go. Well when GPa took an Ax to chop the head off he lost his grip, and this Rooster with No head was buzzing around the yard in circles. Blood spewing from the neck. Dam thing went out like it lived. Crazy.
Thank you for this informative video. I'm new to chickens and we have an injured one. I'm about to attempt this for the first time. I don't want her to suffer. Thank you again.
Awesome video very helpful for when we start to cull our chickens. I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this but ur son is a spitting image of you! No denying who his dad is lol! Love seems no children being taught where our food comes from! Props to y’all’s parenting methods 👏🏻
Thank you for this video. I am a backyard chicken owner and I have 7 chickens now. I have 3 in the 4th year. I do live in the country so that I can do any method. I have been lucky to have no illness only 1 bumblefoot. But I have been researching this method for about 6 months and you make it look easier than most. My husband thinks of the chicks as pets and could never do this but I want to be prepared to do this if needed. Being a woman and I have disc issues in my neck I was worried about doing this because I watched another woman do this where she yanked the bird up severly. I know I can do this like you and get it done correctly. I know not everyone wants to see this but it is important if you are gonna have chickens. Btw we eat eggs but because they are now pets I can't get my husband to eat whole baked chicken only tenders, lol!
Hey this was very informative. Just a suggestion: Try to kill them away from other chickens. When they see / hear their mates struggling, it will make them afraid and a result few physiological changes takes place in them and stress hormone(Cortisol) is released. When we eat them, it won't be a very good thing for us coz that will be toxic for us. Other than that, I appreciate your work 😄
I unfortunately had to kill one of our chickens due to an Injury with another animal. Never dealt with it before and didn't know how but she was suffering so knew I had to take care of her. I ended up instantly crushing her head in with a concrete block instantly killing her but her flapping gave me nightmares like I didn't do it quick enough and she suffered more than was necessary. I didn't know the flapping was a part of the nerve endings being severed. Thank you for the closure you brought me. I didn't enjoy it, and hopefully never have to do it again but I thank you again for the closure. Farm life isn't for everyone but when in my case when an animal is in pain you have to do the right thing.
Thank you! I feel more confident about completing a cervical dislocation. I have a question for you. After you cull in this manner, how do you complete the butchering process if you wanted to eat it?
Once the bird has stopped moving you can either a) pluck all the feathers and remove the inards or b) hang the chicken by its feet and skin the chicken(much quicker) and remove the innards. There are lots of videos showing this process.
Really an Excellent video. You have a great set up and so clearly know what you're doing. I also appreciate your humaneness to the animals and how you are teaching it to your children. Thanks and take care.
Great video! I think I could butcher my rooster on my own with the stick but I’m going to have my guy help. Thank you again. Good job with your kids and telling them to not have animals suffer. 🥰
Great video, I've been eating my own roosters and chickens since I was a kid but your methods are much better than my choping block method, I've currently got six rooster for the freezer and will give your methods a go. Cheers Tony from Australia
Thank you for the video. I had to dispatch a bird with a knife that my cat caught. I had no idea what I was doing at the time and I hope it didn't suffer long. Thanks again for sharing a more humane method.
Thank you so much for making this video! Its really helpful and necessary to be able to watch so you can do it correctly and as quick and painless as possible. Really god job of explaining and showing how to. So greatful for this.
Thank you so much. I was looking for something other than the cone method and you did such a good job with this video. I know you have helped many people
Thank You so much for this video, I have always had Chickens, but my older son did it for me Hes grown and gone now So I need to do it myself, thanks for the kindness and sharing
Thank you for the video. I searched for a good video as one of my chickens is not doing great. It's really important to have a euthanasia plan in case you need to quickly dispatch a hen or rooster on your property to end its suffering. You've helped me prepare for that day.
My grampa used two nails hammered side by side into a sawed off big old flat tree trunk...Neck inbetween nails, axe down, decapated. NO PAIN, because the pain receptors are all in the birds brain or CNS(Central Nervous System). The body would sometimes "run" because of how nerve synapses works and were already through out the body and out in the peripheral nervous system, but no pain as pain receptors all stem from the brains central nervous system PAINLESS IS THE GOAL Good job guys i think blood letting is CRUEL!...slicing the blood vessels and allowing for it to bleed out (bleed to its death) is NOT killing the animal quickly or in any humane manner .
This may be a ridiculous comment...but...it is really nice to see a clean shaven man. So many going with the trend of the beard or some other style of facial hair. I told you it's a silly comment but I wanted to mention it's nice to see someone who still takes time to shave. Jesus bless.
Thank you so much! I have been reading and looking at illustrations but your video is so much more helpful. It was also adorable watching your sweet child practicing their math!
just did my first rooster after watching this, used the pull method, i used the extra pulling power of my knee and it was very quick, flapped for about 20 seconds
Hello thank you for showing this It’s so hard to do for me but when I have a sick suffering chicken I needed to learn a method to do myself My chickens are bantams so it’s harder to to do emotionally cause they are my pets .
I culled a rooster with the hand method a couple months ago, and I didn't have a good enough hold on his body when I did it, so when he started flopping he caught me with one of his spurs and I now have a long scar down my forearm as a reminder. He was a jerk of a rooster anyway. Guess he got the last laugh. Just wanted to remind everyone to make sure to have a good hold on the chicken before and after. Today I have a hen that's been egg-bound for quite a few days. We've tried everything to help her, but I might be culling her today to put her out of her misery. Well done on the video. Thanks.
Thank you. I am wanting to do this rather than culling the bloodier way. I hatched 17 chicks and 13 of them were roosters. I have 2 adult roosters for my 40 hens. Planning on keeping only 2 roosters for the flock.
I have a question. I truly respect it and my family comes from farms and hunting and fishing and have participated in putting an animal out of their misery with shooting or putting a knife through the fishes head, but is it hard to do when you feel their neck break and can hear it? I would like to have chickens and would like to give them a good life and maybe have the opportunity to eat them and give thanks to the chicken. Thanks!
Thank you for showing this. We have a sick chicken we've been unable to bring around and is just suffering now. They're more like pets to us, but it has to be done.
03:53 Like my dad and me. As similar as we look, none of us can deny our relationship. That's so cool! 😁 Very educational video by the way. Thank you for that! Since my first language is not english, I don't understand the phrase "pulling the head off". Does it mean the broomstick method? Or does it mean cutting off the head with a hatchet?
Thanks for the great tutorial. My wife has said for years that she'd love to live on a farm. She couldn't handle it. We're venturing into backyard chickens. Wish me luck.😅
You will inevitably experience their demise, either from sickness, predators, environment… whatever. It’s a guilt trip at first, but over time, you will come to realize it is the circle of life on the farm. If that time doesn’t come for you, consider stepping away ✌️
@@callmesceptical9114 Thanks again for the advise. Will keep this in mind. We've lost our share of pets over the years, so ultimately she'll be fine. I grew up surrounded by a wider variety of domesticated animals and my mom used them to essentially teach us the birds and bees. We had meat rabbits growing up. I'm thinking about making that my next project after we get settled with the chickens. 8 weeks in...going well so far.😉
@@callmesceptical9114ugh sounds about right. I feel like we'll have at least one out of the 8 we picked up. We have a couple sources that will take them so I don't have to do the dirty work. We'll see.
I prefer your method too, but do you not bleed them out after? In your opinion: does the meat taste differently if you don't bleed them out? What's pros & cons from bleeding out as opposed to not?
OK, done and done. I've had a weak hen and IDK what was wrong, but the others were pecking at her, so I let her free range even at night, kinda hoping something like a racoon would come and let nature take its course, but she was a survivor, so I just did the broomstick method. It was easy really and not that much blood either.
hello, was their anymore symptoms other than just coughing and sneezing. Im having a bit of an issue my self with my chickens. I sent one off for testing but still haven't heard anything back. And it's been a minute. So i was wondering if the symptoms mine are having are possibly the same as the ones you had.
Thank you for showing me that... You don't have to kill you're chickens for a cough I use Denegaurd 12.5% it's for swine you can give to chickens you can get it from Valley Vet it's about 45.00 a bottle it works great and will last a very long time. It works great for me I had bought a chicken that had it bad in its lungs so I gave 2 teaspoons in a gallon of water make sure the chicken drinks at least most if NOT all it will be fine. Oh at Valley Vet you can also speak to a vet for free. I hope that helps.
interesting have had to put chickens down,I hate it because they are my pets, but I refuse to let an animal who is unrecoverable suffer. I would like to recommend checking into terrain theory, it was a eye opener for sure. you have alot of chickens, do you know what kind or breed they are? I have brahmas, astrolorp, one left out of four, lost to illness and predators, rocks hamburg, cornish, dorking, marans, they are getting older so they dont lay as well, but like I said they are pets.
I killed my first one from my hands this summer. I did the cone and bleed out method. I don't think I could do it like you do just cause it grosses me out lol I prefer a very quick cut.
I learned how to do it by hand when I had to cull 40 pullets that got an infectious respiratory virus... I didn't want that much blood everywhere lol. Now that I've done it a few times it's really quick and easy.
@@philandhannahslittlefarm1464 i had some that caught mg, mycoplasma gallisepticus, it was an awful disease and resulted in me killing all me flock. It can be hard but it’s something that needs to be done, thank you for sharing this video.
Thank you again for the other culling video and this one as well. I've got three roosters, and only recently two have had "issues"- the head roo Ollie and last spring's hatch Goldie. Ollie has been a gentle rooster, especially toward people. I won't have them hurting each other and fighting. Time for Goldie to grace the table. Thank you.
Also, if you would be willing to make a video of how to clean them I'd be thankful for it. I appreciate the way you approach the care and dispatch of the animals on your farm.
I just started a farm job... lord have mercy I feel so bad for them I just want them to go painlessly and without suffering. This is hands down the hardest thing I've ever had to do. 😢
If they are sick we compost them. If just culling roosters I prefer a pellet grill at 225f for 5 hrs stuffed with herbs, lemon, carrots and celery and a rosemary rub. Covered till the last 30mins them remove foil and let the skin crisp at 300f
I’ve never been a fan of cutting the chickens throat and letting it bleed out. To me, it just seems like a life time for them to die. When doing broiler chickens, I personally cut the head clean off in one swipe, let the blood drain into buckets and then use it later on for composting. Gonna have to try this method though and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing. 👍
It is a long time for them. Most animals that are smaller than humans see time differently than we do- literally. For them they experience moments much more in detail and longer than we do as humans, which is part of why they have such a good reaction. The few seconds of bleeding out to them, would be many minutes of experience for a human in terms of how much their brain and feelings are in those moments.
@@harmmany214 I don't know why but it seems you're just setting this up as an intuition or something
@@Kebbab.213 www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-animals-live-in-a-slow-motion-world/
Funny enough my dad likes the cervical dislocation because he likes to keep the blood on the neck to eat it.
@@Kebbab.213 No, it's true that smaller animals have faster reaction times and different concept of time. It's why it's so damn difficult to swat flies.
Kindness you showed to your son is admirable. Good dad.
Your son was exactly right! Humans and animals are electrical being and when they flap it’s basically their energy coming out 😊 super smart kid! Way to go!
Chickens don't just flap around, they often run around. The body can live for months if you feed it through a funnel, in one case even a year. It's because the bird has a spirit like every other animal and it's still in the same place as when the head was there and still controlling the body. I read an account of a chicken running down a narrow path after being beheaded. It's not just electricity.
@@jimketchum3169 "it has a spirt" ok grandpa
@@taki0ps230Please explain what runs the body without a head for up to a year, young wise one...🤔
@@jimketchum3169it had top half its head cut off but still had enough to function normally including the beak and the brain, it didnt have eyes so the owner had to feed it himself
@@manumukhesh6116The one I read about had no head at all. The skin grew up around the neck and slowly choked it in about a year.
I'm a new backyard chicken owner. I was super impressed with your empathy. Thanks for a great video and I admire you teaching your child. Food doesn't come from the grocery store, just purchased there...
New Chicken keeper here with a paralyzed bird about to use your method. This video was very honest and straight forward. Cheers to you for teaching your child to treat animals with empathy.
How did it go?
Best video on the subject. This guy demonstrates so much compassion and respect. I just had to dispatch a sick chicken, and it's pretty hard, when you know the bird and are fond of her.
Very helpful, clear and humane demonstrations.
Thank you for your video we have a neighbor who's rooster is 8 years old and very sick. they didn't have the heart to do the deed, my daughter and I watched your video. We were able to replicate the dislocation with great success and no pain to the rooster. thank you for the kindness you taught your son, I also taught my daughter.
That was a very kind gesture to your neighbor ❤
They flap because there are chemical/electrical differences between the muscles that all get zeroed at the same time and its like waves on the surface of water after a bucket has been submerged. It will go until the surface level (in a muscle voltage) is equal on both inside and outside the bucket or inside and outside the all cells.
My hen Rosie had mareks disease and this helped a lot to know how to put her out properly without hurting her more. Thank you so so much.
Did you have to cull the others that were exposed to her I am having tut issue now It’s heartbreaking
I am so very sorry though that was one year ago. None of my chickens are vaccinated against Marek's. I will be doing so in the future.
This is the only video I can tolerate watching, I seriously want to learn this in case of something bad happening like a war and I have to retreat somewhere, this was exponentially easier to watch than other videos! Especially since you checked with your son, you explained the flapping well, and you focused on the animals comfort! And I’m so happy you focused on your son too! Thank you!
I’m very sensitive about things like this. Hearing you and your son and you talk about these things in a respectful and scientific manner is really helpful. My boyfriend and I wish to have a farm one day and these are things I may have to learn. Thank you so much for making this video !
Thank you for the straightforward understanding, this really helped me out when a chick wiped out my whole flock with disease and we had no idea how to cull. Thank you!
Thanks for showing this. We have a hen who has stopped laying for months. I'm very impressed with the way you showed your son the process. It's so important, especially in this day and age, to understand and value where our food comes from. I have no doubt whatsoever that your chickens have received the highest standards of care.
After killing with these two methods, you can eat the chicken?
نعم لأن الدجاجة لم تعذب بهذه الطريقتين عكس الفأس وسفك الدماء الذي يكون فيه تعذيب للحيوان المسكين@@thehappyloaf
Thank you for sharing how to compassionately dispatch a hen. One of my hens had a prolapsed vent which went back in with Epsom soaks but I saw it had an abrasion before she pulled it back in. I suspected she wouldn’t recover. It’s been two weeks today is her last. She was a sweet hen who laid a lot of great eggs. She will be missed ❤
Thanks for showing the different methods so calmly. I’m a new chicken owner and you definitely gave me the confidence I needed to cull two of my roosters. Your son is adorable by the way and I love that he’s able to be with you for this. It’s so important for kids to be a part of everything that happens on the farm. Great job dad 😊
Thank you so much for this especially on the roosters. Our favorite gentle big Golden Wyandotte developed an infected toe that looked like it got to the bone. We nursed him 2 wks without improvement. This helped us let him go and keeping his body whole.. We gave him a sea burial off our dock as we are over in SE Alaska. Looks like you are in BC Thanks so much again.
This definitely is the most gentle way I have seem compared to all the other videos I've watched on this subject
نعم صحيح الطرق الأخرى بشعة جدا وغير إنسانية
I have only had chickens for a little over a year and now the dreaded time has come. I have a chicken with a bad leg and getting worse, I got close to my chicken so it makes it harder now. Thanks for posting
So very informative and helpful! As a new homesteader, this gives some great options, and especially appreciate ideas for methods that don't require expensive equipment.
Thank you for making it so easy to understand. I just had to cull 3 young roosters. The first didn't go so well and I feel like crap now. The other 2 went the fast. Now I know approx how hard to pull, I appreciate you showing from begging to end it helped a lot.
Thank you Phil. I needed this information and the Broomstick method was easy, quick, and humane. I appreciate the respect with which you present this information.
Thank you for your detailed showing and description of cervical dislocation. My favorite hen is sick past fixing, and I have to help her (pretty sure she’s at the end stage of cancer) - for the first time I have no one to do it for me. I’ve been spoiled to have help! I feel much more capable after watching you cull your Barred Rock rooster. I am certain I will be able to have a quick and clean kill now.
Your son is adorable. I hope he’s still loving to eat chicken! 😊
Thank you for this video. We have an older hen who is not doing well, & I feel more confident about being able to humanely cull her after watching this.
Update did u do it correctly
You: This chicken led a good life
Your son: And now it's gonna be good to eat!
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Thank you for this information, I live in a small town that does not allow roosters and I didn't want to kill him, but you gave me the most humane way to do so and I feel better about it.
That was a good presentation of the process, very helpful for a first time chicken keeper. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with you. First time owner of my own flock, but was raised with them. This was very helpful to learn the best ways to cull without any pain or the most humane way. I appreciate that many people cut the throat, but to me, I’d worry that they’d be too aware and in pain for that time and I’m not sure that I’d use that way. I’ve heard of the broomstick method and it was nice to see you thoroughly show how to do this. I have about 70 chickens. Maybe 20 are roosters and I obviously do not need that many and some are very mean. I just hadn’t been ready to cull yet and wasn’t sure the best way to do so. I feel more comfortable now and will probably downsize soon. It’s important for me to keep some roosters, as we live in an area where we can and some of the roosters have the best personalities, but other than companionship for me, they don’t really hold a purpose. We don’t have our chickens hatch eggs, though I do have some broody silkies, I just rotate the eggs out. Again, thank you for your compassion towards these chickens/roosters and it’s a wonderful thing you are teaching your children.
Hey, I really appreciate this. You showed that you had feeling and compassion for what needed to be done.
Your son is intuitive and accurate; all the movement is its energy running out. 😊
Excellent instruction! Yes, whether you’re raising five chickens or fifty, eventually you’re going to encounter sickness or injury. Or you might need to provide meat for the table. This is what you do, and these are a couple of humane methods.
THANK YOU!!! It's hard to find anybody actually showing you how to do this but it's necessary bc you want to do it right. So yes, thank you for your help. I have a handful of roosters and a chicken that can't walk anymore so I desperately needed this information.
How do you bleed them out if this method is used?
Thanks. I have to do this today and I appreciate your serious and respectful attitude toward your birds. Your thoroughness of explanation is extremely helpful for such a tough but necessary task. I feel sad but at least I now feel more prepared.
Simply put you are an awesome gift to the chickens and to all of us! Thank you for trusting us enough to share. Hugs
Not a fun job by any measure, but your method worked well for our sick and suffering hen. Thank you.
When we first started raising chickens back in the 70s, we had this Crazy Rooster that had to go. Well when GPa took an Ax to chop the head off he lost his grip, and this Rooster with No head was buzzing around the yard in circles. Blood spewing from the neck. Dam thing went out like it lived. Crazy.
Thank you for this informative video. I'm new to chickens and we have an injured one. I'm about to attempt this for the first time. I don't want her to suffer. Thank you again.
Awesome video very helpful for when we start to cull our chickens. I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this but ur son is a spitting image of you! No denying who his dad is lol! Love seems no children being taught where our food comes from! Props to y’all’s parenting methods 👏🏻
Thank you! Very helpful. I have a sick chicken and have never done this. Now I have some confidence to do it humanely.
I had to do this this morning for the first time. I studied your video first. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I love this your the first person to show everything thank you
Thank you for this video. I am a backyard chicken owner and I have 7 chickens now. I have 3 in the 4th year. I do live in the country so that I can do any method. I have been lucky to have no illness only 1 bumblefoot. But I have been researching this method for about 6 months and you make it look easier than most. My husband thinks of the chicks as pets and could never do this but I want to be prepared to do this if needed. Being a woman and I have disc issues in my neck I was worried about doing this because I watched another woman do this where she yanked the bird up severly. I know I can do this like you and get it done correctly. I know not everyone wants to see this but it is important if you are gonna have chickens. Btw we eat eggs but because they are now pets I can't get my husband to eat whole baked chicken only tenders, lol!
Hey this was very informative. Just a suggestion: Try to kill them away from other chickens. When they see / hear their mates struggling, it will make them afraid and a result few physiological changes takes place in them and stress hormone(Cortisol) is released. When we eat them, it won't be a very good thing for us coz that will be toxic for us. Other than that, I appreciate your work 😄
I unfortunately had to kill one of our chickens due to an Injury with another animal. Never dealt with it before and didn't know how but she was suffering so knew I had to take care of her. I ended up instantly crushing her head in with a concrete block instantly killing her but her flapping gave me nightmares like I didn't do it quick enough and she suffered more than was necessary. I didn't know the flapping was a part of the nerve endings being severed. Thank you for the closure you brought me. I didn't enjoy it, and hopefully never have to do it again but I thank you again for the closure. Farm life isn't for everyone but when in my case when an animal is in pain you have to do the right thing.
Love how you explained this is natural and normal and asked your boy if he wanted to watch... "You're still gonna eat chicken?!" lol
Thank you! I feel more confident about completing a cervical dislocation. I have a question for you. After you cull in this manner, how do you complete the butchering process if you wanted to eat it?
Once the bird has stopped moving you can either a) pluck all the feathers and remove the inards or b) hang the chicken by its feet and skin the chicken(much quicker) and remove the innards. There are lots of videos showing this process.
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Thanks for sharing, I'm just learning how to live on a farm and your videos really help me a lot❤
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Really an Excellent video. You have a great set up and so clearly know what you're doing. I also appreciate your humaneness to the animals and how you are teaching it to your children. Thanks and take care.
Great video and a lovely family farm! Good job Dad, kids need to see the good and bad of farm life, when ready.
Thank you for this video I had so much anxiety as mine has been sick but it made me feel relaxed and calm to know that I’m not being cruel
Great video! I think I could butcher my rooster on my own with the stick but I’m going to have my guy help. Thank you again. Good job with your kids and telling them to not have animals suffer. 🥰
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Did you think he should have like stomped it with his boots immediately after breaking it's neck?
Thank you. I've read through several manuals, but seeing it helps a lot.
Great video, I've been eating my own roosters and chickens since I was a kid but your methods are much better than my choping block method, I've currently got six rooster for the freezer and will give your methods a go.
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Really you've had fowl all your life and you have been chopping off their heads the whole time? Thats rough, we always used to just ring the neck.
Thank you for the video. I had to dispatch a bird with a knife that my cat caught. I had no idea what I was doing at the time and I hope it didn't suffer long. Thanks again for sharing a more humane method.
You have a smart lad i think hes right the energy to run out .... much love xoxox
Thank you… not easy to do , watching you and your son do it together. Very helpful to say the least sir
Thank you so much for making this video! Its really helpful and necessary to be able to watch so you can do it correctly and as quick and painless as possible. Really god job of explaining and showing how to. So greatful for this.
Thank you, so much. We are new to raising chickens and this is so helpful. Your son is so very sweet. Well done🐓🧡💛💚
The fact your gonna kill them is just cruel
Nice, teaching your kids sustainable living. Good job.
Thank you so much. I was looking for something other than the cone method and you did such a good job with this video. I know you have helped many people
Thank You so much for this video, I have always had Chickens, but my older son did it for me
Hes grown and gone now
So I need to do it myself, thanks for the kindness and sharing
Thank you for the video. I searched for a good video as one of my chickens is not doing great. It's really important to have a euthanasia plan in case you need to quickly dispatch a hen or rooster on your property to end its suffering. You've helped me prepare for that day.
I love that you admit to your son you don't know why they twitch, lots of adults would make something up before admitting that
My grampa used two nails hammered side by side into a sawed off big old flat tree trunk...Neck inbetween nails, axe down, decapated. NO PAIN, because the pain receptors are all in the birds brain or CNS(Central Nervous System). The body would sometimes "run" because of how nerve synapses works and were already through out the body and out in the peripheral nervous system, but no pain as pain receptors all stem from the brains central nervous system
PAINLESS IS THE GOAL
Good job guys
i think blood letting is CRUEL!...slicing the blood vessels and allowing for it to bleed out (bleed to its death) is NOT killing the animal quickly or in any humane manner .
Thankyou for this video, I need to dispatch one of mine later, a bit nervous especially when they flap but I will do it...thanks again!
Your son is darling, and will be a good and kind farmer like his dad.
This may be a ridiculous comment...but...it is really nice to see a clean shaven man. So many going with the trend of the beard or some other style of facial hair.
I told you it's a silly comment but I wanted to mention it's nice to see someone who still takes time to shave. Jesus bless.
Thank you so much! I have been reading and looking at illustrations but your video is so much more helpful.
It was also adorable watching your sweet child practicing their math!
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Your kid is awesome, all the questions he is asking, very very smart kid, how is he doing today?
just did my first rooster after watching this, used the pull method, i used the extra pulling power of my knee and it was very quick, flapped for about 20 seconds
How is your catcher made??
I need that rooster catcher, been using a fishnet and it works but they get quite tangled up
Very instructive. Thank you so much! However: are you not going to let them bleed out afterwards?
Thank you for this video, your expertise and compassion.
Thank you for your honesty and clear instructions
Hello thank you for showing this It’s so hard to do for me but when I have a sick suffering chicken I needed to learn a method to do myself
My chickens are bantams so it’s harder to to do emotionally cause they are my pets .
I culled a rooster with the hand method a couple months ago, and I didn't have a good enough hold on his body when I did it, so when he started flopping he caught me with one of his spurs and I now have a long scar down my forearm as a reminder. He was a jerk of a rooster anyway. Guess he got the last laugh. Just wanted to remind everyone to make sure to have a good hold on the chicken before and after.
Today I have a hen that's been egg-bound for quite a few days. We've tried everything to help her, but I might be culling her today to put her out of her misery.
Well done on the video. Thanks.
Thank you. I am wanting to do this rather than culling the bloodier way. I hatched 17 chicks and 13 of them were roosters. I have 2 adult roosters for my 40 hens. Planning on keeping only 2 roosters for the flock.
13/17 is a lot 😄
@@philandhannahslittlefarm1464 I know lol. I guess I used all my luck when buying pullets. Bought over 20 and all were pullets.
@@philandhannahslittlefarm1464 I had 16 and 10 are roosters. I am going to have to put them all down within a day or two, save for one or two.
You mentioned you had had a problem with humidity in the coop but fixed. What do you do to fix it?
Ventilation! Fresh air must be able to flow across and out of coop top, or upper window slots. Let me know if u need more details…✌️
I have a question. I truly respect it and my family comes from farms and hunting and fishing and have participated in putting an animal out of their misery with shooting or putting a knife through the fishes head, but is it hard to do when you feel their neck break and can hear it? I would like to have chickens and would like to give them a good life and maybe have the opportunity to eat them and give thanks to the chicken. Thanks!
Thank you for showing this. We have a sick chicken we've been unable to bring around and is just suffering now. They're more like pets to us, but it has to be done.
I had to do this today ; I didn’t have help so this was invaluable.thank you
thank you for showing me this i needed to learn since i have a rooster suffering and its going to be my first time doing so
03:53 Like my dad and me. As similar as we look, none of us can deny our relationship. That's so cool! 😁
Very educational video by the way. Thank you for that!
Since my first language is not english, I don't understand the phrase "pulling the head off". Does it mean the broomstick method? Or does it mean cutting off the head with a hatchet?
Thanks for the great tutorial.
My wife has said for years that she'd love to live on a farm. She couldn't handle it. We're venturing into backyard chickens. Wish me luck.😅
You will inevitably experience their demise, either from sickness, predators, environment… whatever. It’s a guilt trip at first, but over time, you will come to realize it is the circle of life on the farm. If that time doesn’t come for you, consider stepping away ✌️
@@callmesceptical9114 Thanks again for the advise. Will keep this in mind. We've lost our share of pets over the years, so ultimately she'll be fine. I grew up surrounded by a wider variety of domesticated animals and my mom used them to essentially teach us the birds and bees. We had meat rabbits growing up. I'm thinking about making that my next project after we get settled with the chickens. 8 weeks in...going well so far.😉
@@ColemanOutdoors glad to hear it’s going well. I need to put down a rooster today. Been putting it off for too long now…ughh
@@callmesceptical9114ugh sounds about right. I feel like we'll have at least one out of the 8 we picked up. We have a couple sources that will take them so I don't have to do the dirty work. We'll see.
@@ColemanOutdoors it’s 0430 on U.S. east coast,at the moment. You might be able to guess why I’m awake at this hour…
I prefer your method too, but do you not bleed them out after? In your opinion: does the meat taste differently if you don't bleed them out? What's pros & cons from bleeding out as opposed to not?
OK, done and done. I've had a weak hen and IDK what was wrong, but the others were pecking at her, so I let her free range even at night, kinda hoping something like a racoon would come and let nature take its course, but she was a survivor, so I just did the broomstick method. It was easy really and not that much blood either.
hello, was their anymore symptoms other than just coughing and sneezing. Im having a bit of an issue my self with my chickens. I sent one off for testing but still haven't heard anything back. And it's been a minute. So i was wondering if the symptoms mine are having are possibly the same as the ones you had.
How old was the roster in this video as I have many to do and it's my first time doing so. Thanks
I have seen using the hand since I was a tot. My peeps used to flick/pop the neck clean off.
Thanks for the video. I like how fast they go and don't suffer. We have one i am going to have to deal with soon.
Me too. This video helped ✌️
Thank you for showing me that... You don't have to kill you're chickens for a cough I use Denegaurd 12.5% it's for swine you can give to chickens you can get it from Valley Vet it's about 45.00 a bottle it works great and will last a very long time. It works great for me I had bought a chicken that had it bad in its lungs so I gave 2 teaspoons in a gallon of water make sure the chicken drinks at least most if NOT all it will be fine.
Oh at Valley Vet you can also speak to a vet for free. I hope that helps.
interesting have had to put chickens down,I hate it because they are my pets, but I refuse to let an animal who is unrecoverable suffer. I would like to recommend checking into terrain theory, it was a eye opener for sure. you have alot of chickens, do you know what kind or breed they are? I have brahmas, astrolorp, one left out of four, lost to illness and predators, rocks hamburg, cornish, dorking, marans, they are getting older so they dont lay as well, but like I said they are pets.
I killed my first one from my hands this summer. I did the cone and bleed out method. I don't think I could do it like you do just cause it grosses me out lol I prefer a very quick cut.
I learned how to do it by hand when I had to cull 40 pullets that got an infectious respiratory virus... I didn't want that much blood everywhere lol. Now that I've done it a few times it's really quick and easy.
@@philandhannahslittlefarm1464 i had some that caught mg, mycoplasma gallisepticus, it was an awful disease and resulted in me killing all me flock. It can be hard but it’s something that needs to be done, thank you for sharing this video.
Did you eat the 40 chickens that you culled because they have coryza?
Thank you again for the other culling video and this one as well. I've got three roosters, and only recently two have had "issues"- the head roo Ollie and last spring's hatch Goldie. Ollie has been a gentle rooster, especially toward people. I won't have them hurting each other and fighting. Time for Goldie to grace the table. Thank you.
Also, if you would be willing to make a video of how to clean them I'd be thankful for it. I appreciate the way you approach the care and dispatch of the animals on your farm.
I just started a farm job... lord have mercy I feel so bad for them I just want them to go painlessly and without suffering. This is hands down the hardest thing I've ever had to do. 😢
10:45 what's the next thing to do after culling the whole flock? is it for meat consumption?
If they are sick we compost them. If just culling roosters I prefer a pellet grill at 225f for 5 hrs stuffed with herbs, lemon, carrots and celery and a rosemary rub. Covered till the last 30mins them remove foil and let the skin crisp at 300f
@@philandhannahslittlefarm1464 so you just compost all of them after that incident? even others which does not have any symptoms?
Any chicken/rooster is good for eating?