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Once
Aunt Beryl taught me how to capture chickens, it was a short run from
there to the 
beheading pen, surrounded top and all four sides with
chicken wire, adjacent to the chicken house and thus convenient for
those moments when you wanted to part a chicken from its life. In the
center of the pen there was an old ax that had outlived wood cutting
and had become the chicken beheading unit. WHOCK! Behead that bird
and then dump it on the ground. It takes the average chicken about
three minutes to die, during which time it will flail and dash madly
from side to side in ecstasy in the beheading pen, until it finally
dies of having no head and and no more blood/David Laird, Community Comment. More here.
Question: Have you ever beheaded a chicken? Or slaughtered any kind of animal? Describe the experience.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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marmitetoasty on March 28 at 4:37 a.m.
*Sticking fingers in me ears* not listening la lala la lalala
Hiding me chickens in the shed away from axes and chopping blocks….
Buying me chicken fillets from ASDA for a casserole…. cos they aint live chickens, they are just ‘meat’ :)
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Sparky on March 28 at 2:55 p.m.
Yes..married into a farm family and experienced the full gantlet of farming. On predetermined day, the family would gather. My father in law and husband would take turns killing the birds then letting them bleed out. This was followed by a boiling water plunge that would clean and literal melt the feathers off. Then they were brought to the clean pot where we would retrieve cut, dry, then wrap. It has taken me twenty years to eat chicken and again.
I wonder if I can put this on my resume….
Stickman on March 28 at 5:24 p.m.
Never. I can’t imagine killing an animal so we could eat it. Disgusting. Imagine nowadays if our children had to slaughter an animal so they could have a kids meal. I doubt many would continue on. But, that’s just me.