Processed one of our Roosters for my BD

Hello - I've just joined and I'd love some feedback on peoples experience with the 'humane chicken dispatcher'. I just tried to cull my first rooster (brahma) with this method and it was absolutely traumatising. The boy didn't fight or flutter but he also didn't die. I pulled the handle down twice as hard as I could but ...still breathing. I held him upside down for a while but he was still hanging in there. I ended up resorting to the hatchet. It was just horrible :-( Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated !
hey there,
it can be alittle hard your first time especially if it doesnt go well my wife was exactly the same when I started doing it, I use large traffic cones on a saw horse so I can move them wherever i need to, place the roster in and use a very sharp fillet knife to take the head off fully, once done the bird will stop moving in a matter of seconds and then process, I am not a fan of the handle crank at all
hope this helps
 
Hello - I've just joined and I'd love some feedback on peoples experience with the 'humane chicken dispatcher'. I just tried to cull my first rooster (brahma) with this method and it was absolutely traumatising. The boy didn't fight or flutter but he also didn't die. I pulled the handle down twice as hard as I could but ...still breathing. I held him upside down for a while but he was still hanging in there. I ended up resorting to the hatchet. It was just horrible :-( Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated !
I believe Mark said as well that it's a little tricky. It does not always hit the right part of their neck and may turn them paraplegic instead. Sometimes they can still feel pain and be unable to move.
If memory serves me right, nowadays he breaks their neck with the humane chicken dispatcher and then IMMEDIATELY cuts their head off. So even IF it didn't work right, it does then. And immediately helps bleed them as well.
 
i was raised old schoool still have grandpa debraining knife , some were made that work like a scissor i piece goes over the head and another in mouth quick squeez it severes the brain stem slices through it hand th upsesid down make a couple simple cuts to ring leg and on body they bleed out. there were a couple styles to this knife one with the blade cross ways and other ran front to back along roof of mouth. many oldtimers simple bent tip of a knife the blade bent so it was angled get in you can feel the back of mouth as you slide in quick twist and they are de brain pull the tip in an arc and they will bleed out fast and easy
 
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