THE KILLING CONE
If you’re going to keep any sort of poultry on your property, even if they’re not intended for meat, eventually you’re going to have to yeet one of them.
Whether you have poultry for the express purpose of filling your freezer, or if you’re only planning on the occasional old age or mercy yeet, you need at least one killing cone.
A killing cone is exactly what it sounds like.
It’s purpose is to allow you to quickly and humanely kill your bird, without doing the old “axe to the neck, and let it run around” thing.
When your (chicken/duck/goose/turkey) is inverted in the cone, it goes into a calm, trance-like state. This gives you the opportunity to (using a very sharp knife) sever the main artery in the neck. There is little-to-no struggle, as their wings and feet are restrained by the cone, and you simply let them bleed-out (into a bucket, ideally. We’ll use that blood later).
For multiple birds, butcher day is a lot easier with multiple cones. You can continue cutting, while the others are hanging.
This is another one of those things you can purchase if you’re functionally retarded, but I’d suggest that you make your own.
There are all sorts of guides online that instruct you on how exactly to build a killing cone (usually from sheet metal), but I find that a traffic cone (cut to size) works just as well. You know where to find those.
Size will vary, depending on what bird you’ve got. You obviously want the large opening of the cone to fit your bird snugly, and you want the small opening to be just large enough to pull the head and neck through, and be able to easily access the main artery in the neck.
If you’re going to keep any sort of poultry on your property, even if they’re not intended for meat, eventually you’re going to have to yeet one of them.
Whether you have poultry for the express purpose of filling your freezer, or if you’re only planning on the occasional old age or mercy yeet, you need at least one killing cone.
A killing cone is exactly what it sounds like.
It’s purpose is to allow you to quickly and humanely kill your bird, without doing the old “axe to the neck, and let it run around” thing.
When your (chicken/duck/goose/turkey) is inverted in the cone, it goes into a calm, trance-like state. This gives you the opportunity to (using a very sharp knife) sever the main artery in the neck. There is little-to-no struggle, as their wings and feet are restrained by the cone, and you simply let them bleed-out (into a bucket, ideally. We’ll use that blood later).
For multiple birds, butcher day is a lot easier with multiple cones. You can continue cutting, while the others are hanging.
This is another one of those things you can purchase if you’re functionally retarded, but I’d suggest that you make your own.
There are all sorts of guides online that instruct you on how exactly to build a killing cone (usually from sheet metal), but I find that a traffic cone (cut to size) works just as well. You know where to find those.
Size will vary, depending on what bird you’ve got. You obviously want the large opening of the cone to fit your bird snugly, and you want the small opening to be just large enough to pull the head and neck through, and be able to easily access the main artery in the neck.