Why not just place it in a chicken size funnel with its head out, hang it upside down, and off with the head? Seams fast. Why does cutting the wind pipe effect the bleeding?
@zachariah2391I absolutely loved Bob Ross. His take on the world around him was so idyllic. I remember when he screwed up something on the canvas he was painting and he would just shrug it off as “happy little accidents.” What a wonderful human being. I miss him!
It is good method to cut the artery as seen for bleeding out. However ripping or cutting the head off is not productive for the bleed out and causes a reaction to the body and also bad for the meat. It is better to slice the neck as shown and then to place a blade inside the mouth and then push through the soft palate between the eyes and slice the brain in half as this will destroy any process of brain function and the meat is not affected.
Hi. bleeding them out seems like they are suffering over a good 30 - 40 seconds, they will feel the pain of the cut, then choke on their own blood, no? I'm assuming you bleed out first so that they loose consciousness?
Why do you not break the neck/brain stem first, then bleed out? As I understand it, breaking the brain stem shuts down all other major functions. Am I missing something?
I'm not dissilusioned over the fact that either will cause pain. It's just I've seen halal slaughter videos-
@Rain4Fuel the idea is to leave the heart beating so the blood pumps out.. as the blood pressure falls the brain wants blood so it basically does all the work for you.. where as a decapitation relies on gravity to bleed the bird.
@Rain4Fuel I thought that too. However, I never killed a chicken. But I wondered if you just could cut off the head with razor sharp hedge shears, to make it quite quicker.
I think your way is a little too slow..why not just kill it quickly...like cutting its head off. the chicken without a doubt feels u breaking its neck, wich is also kind slow. im in no way trying to be a nasty commentator. just asking a couple of questions. i grew up with this sort of stuff my whole life, so im used to the traditional way of killing a chicken. great video though, and good job.. oh yeah, i love homemade chicken soup too...lol
@brooke14100: From what I have read: You have to bleed the bird out or the meat will taste weird. The bird needs to be alive because the beating of the heart will actually pump all the blood out of the body before it dies. If you accidentally cut the windpipe, the bird suffers more and may die before it fully bleeds out. Some people use a mild electrical shock to first stun the bird before doing the cutting.
I am interested in starting to raise chickens and call me a pussy but i wouldn't be able to do this...anyone encountered a chicken be-header, some kind of guillotine for chickens?
This is a wonderful video. So humane and a great instruction on the possibility of how to handle and reconnect with our food source with respect and care. Please don't remove it and keep posting these. Thank you!
I enjoyed this video. I do however think a quicker end would have been nicer. Sure the bird was comforted, but the death was too slow. Can I ask why its neck wasnt broken first then the bleed out? Was just wondering if there was a reason or purpose ?
thank you for sharing this. i have been a hypnotist and homesteader....i realized after butchering my first chicken the level of conditioning within me that has seperated myself/all of us from our own food source...why less than 100 years ago this was NORMAL~there was no guilt~or judgement. i still am in awe of it really~i have chickens and still and getting myself deprogramed. i am grateful for this young women helpng us all.
Thank you for giving her an easy end, she seemed very calm. I wish everyone would treat their food like this. I raise pet chickens for eggs and I was faced with killing my favorite roo yesterday due to a bad injury. I couldn't do it, so my boyfriend had to do it for me. I felt bad, because this bird was my baby and I couldn't even be there to comfort him. Maybe after watching this the next time I am faced with it I will be able to do it.
If in this world I was forced to kill my own chicken or cows to eat I think I would probably be a vegan, I think most people would, if there where laws saying if you want to eat meat you do it yourself.
@WhoChrisLiu The meat she is harvesting you can't buy at the grocery store. It won't kill her family either and is full of flavour yet is much firmer than what you are used to from the grocery store and their 5 week old chickens. I raised a few birds in my back yard and while the harvest and processing are unpleasant, it is part of it. Once you've done it a few time, you get a greater respect for your food. My kids see this as a normal thing.
Lots of videos on this subject. Yours is the best. Probably the most humane and serene for the animal. I am very interested in doing some urban farming, but have never killed anything. Thanks for the very informational videos.
@betdan7777777 You might if the food supply dried up. Chickens aren't pets, they are given life for a single purpose. Have a look at industrial farming videos and compare that to what she is doing.
A fine example of how to humanely slaughter a chicken. I have pet chickens that lay eggs for me that I don't intend to butcher after they stop laying eggs, but if in the future I acquire chicks that I would to grow as meat birds, I'll use this technique. The only thing I'd do differently is maybe quickly sever the head. My philosophy behind that is is that all pain is perceived by the brain and the nervous system, so instead of bleeding out the chicken with its nervous system intact
Thanks for the great video. There are ways to determine if a hen is currently laying. If they are a yellow-skinned variety, how long they have been laying. There is a distinct pattern in which they lose the yellow skin pigment, & regain it after laying stops, (either for the molt or when the daylight is shortest, that can be overcome with lights in the coop). There is so much knowledge that was lost, or nearly so.
Being a vegetarian to protect the sanctity of animal life is incomplete because it only minimizes the suffering of animals that the vegetarian owns and that he has not consumed. All other animals are still at the mercy of nature or mankind. Wild animals die unpredictable deaths. Livestock animal will not, so making that inevitable moment as peaceful as possible is important. Death is an inevitability that being a vegetarian can’t stop, so striving to give animals happy lives is more practical.
@SATxChuck Being a vegetarian is healthier & easier on the environment. Pound per pound you get more protein per acre from growing beans than grazing livestock but traditional small farming practices need to be encouraged because they provide a necessary balance that industrial sized agribusinesses do not. Not everyone can be vegan. It is unfair to insult farmers who raise livestock with love and compassion with the same hatred that they do to the CEO’s of places like Monsanto.
@MrAnthonyRizzo Would you rather have someone give you a happy life, than kill you, or let you live your life normally and as long as you usually live? I don't really have a definite opinion regarding vegetarianism, just kinda trying to figure it all out.
@KrykoStorm That is a fair question. My point of view stems from having seen the story of Temple Grandin’s life. Her view on a person’s responsibility to the animals that he brings into this world makes sense. I’ve also seen news reports about scientific studies that confirm that meat from grass fed animals that are allowed to roam naturally is healthier than the alternative. That has to be some indication as to the health and happiness of the animal. BTW: I would rather be happy!
"Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. I wouldn't want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. I'd much rather die in a slaughterhouse, if it was done right." -Temple Grandin
We're so displaced from reality these days...most people have probably eaten hundreds of chickens and never yet seen this happen, never mind even think about the chicken as a previous living thing...
@43894674126438564036 - Yes! But any chicken raised on a natural diet (weeds, bugs, worms... and a little grain) tastes almost like a different bird than the industrially farmed chickens in the store. And any chicken allowed to fully mature has a richer taste, like laying hens after two or three years of laying. Especially the heritage breeds, of course!
I raise chickens and give my spent hens to a friend who humanely harvests them. I've thought about doing it myself but didn't feel confident I could do it well. This video made me believe that I could...that is, if my chickens didn't have names. Thank you so much!
now i know that dipping them in warm/hot water makes you able to remove the feathers easier but WHY is that? what does the hot water do that make it that easy to get rid of them even though you only put the chicken in there for a very short amount of time? love how much respect you pay to your animals btw
That you all so much for sharing this valuable info. Well done too. I feel like I could do this first try. A friend told me that any animal experiences fear when exposed to blood so not to kill more than 1 at a time in the same spot. His grandma used to wash the chopping block off with baking soda in between each chicken when killing more than one. She was the same as you with the kindness but she just chopped off heads while they ate some feed off the block.
I don't get it. About once a week a militant vegan shows up and posts some crazy rant. Why would a militant vegan go looking for videos about chickens? They just have bottled anger they need to spew? So, just to let folks know, I've been deleting these. I'm glad youtube gives me the ability to do that.
@paulwheaton12 You are 99.999 percents correct. What you are incorrect about is that there all vegans. Some think meat grows on trees in the back of a supermarket (got that cool chant from another youtuber)!
I recently decided that supermarket chicken was too unethical to eat (it's the only meat I eat) and so my partner and I are going to erect a chicken coop for our own consumption. This is how I will harvest the chicken. Thank you for a great video.
wow, this is something that has really intimidated me, but she makes it look so easy, and she is so calm and respectful to the chicken. I'm totally impressed.
I´ve still forgotten something: What she´s doing with a few unready eggs is really nasty...
...fresh taken out of the guts, out of the chickens belly, merely wiped off at her apron - I felt queasy when I saw that! :o([
I´ve watched this video together with my girlfriend and also she felt like (and asked besides: "Where this woman get the muscle-power from, to rip of the head of a chicken...?"). :o])
HER method: A prick through the throat-skin with a very pointed and sharp knife, slicing - out...
1. Why you rip off the head (the blood drains off perfect, the animal would be already dead in a few seconds, also without doing this crass method), so what´s wrong to let the head on the neck?
2. Why are you "knocking" on the chickens throat for longer time before slicing?
3. What do you think about dry plucking (the body could taken on the lap, it wouldn´t have the nasty smell because of the hot wet feathers and don´t need to hang it up - so could plucked even in an apartement)?
I really appreciate this video. Thank you for sharing it with us. I love the respect and kindness shown to the chicken.
I really like that the chicken is referred to as 'she' - somehow it makes it more real for me. I refer to my pets or other livestock as their gender dictates. When we get chicken or any meat at the market it's seen as an 'it'. Somehow this referral to the chicken as a 'she' made me more aware of the value she had for the chicken's life.
I am not disturbed by the butchering, as it is perfectly fine by me. I am disturbed by: the lady's immensly soft voice, colour pink aka self-proclaimed "angel of death", as well as referral towards the chicken as "she".
@40lena I agree with what you said completely. Although, I don't understand your aversion to pink. It would disturb me much more if she were wearing purple, the color of power.
The other thing, anyone criticizing this interesting woman or calling her cruel had better not ever tasted any meat their entire life. Not once. No commercially slaughtered animal had this nice a life or death. If you call her names and then eat meat that was slaughtered by someone else it makes your position inferior to hers.
I didn't think the bleeding method would be good but she makes it look relatively gentle. I mean, you are killing something and it's hard to make it perfect. Animals are built for endurance. I think a shotgun blast to the head or anything that instantly disintegrates the brain would be the only possible improvement. I don't think head chopping would be any better. When a head is chopped the brain will lose consciousness because of loss of blood pressure. It seems that this bird did not have
Hey Paul: Great video. I also listened to your podcast with Alexia and enjoyed it thoroughly! I too would like to join the growing list of gentlemen proposing matrimonial bonds with Miss Allen (if you would pass my proposal on to her, I'll make sure you get an invitation). What a unique and intriguing young woman. It's no wonder she commands such interest from men (who are disenchanted with the hordes of "mall zombies" roaming the countryside).
For all the attacking vegans..what kind of world do you think we would live in if all animals just reproduced as they wanted? Where would they go? Where would they live, what would they eat? Do you not understand the slaughter between 1 animal & another? Many of you claim man is animal so why is it ok for a coyote to eat a chicken but not man? Were we not put on this earth too? Many animals suffer in the wild due to competing for food, diseases, etc. Man was made to be shepherds of the earth.
Wow, that is so much calmer than what happens with my chickens!!! Thank you so much for sharing this because it is a better way to go than the axe for chopper and choppee!!!
You're the calmest person I've ever seen, but instead of putting a knife in it's brain to kill the nervous system after they start bleeding, YOU RIP IT'S HEAD OFF..
I agree with hollyhousekitchen in most respects. But I don't think it makes sense to say, as Alexia Allen does, that "It's just a vertebrate bias that might make a chicken seem different than a carrot." Hens are sentient; carrots are not. In fact it seems from her relatively humane way of killing hens that she herself clearly recognizes this fundamental difference between the two.
I wouldn't have the heart to do this myself but I feel alot of gratitude for your appreciative and honourable approach to killing a chicken for food. If we were living near to you I would gladly buy your chickens (don't know if you sell them). I really appreciate your work.
I'm thinking of raising chickens for food, but I can't even watch her do the bleed out part. So did the chicken struggle at all, during any part of this?
@lessermystery you should see my uncles tactic, he grabs the chicken by the wings then he karate chops the spine and shit flies everywhere! it literally shits itself then he lays it on the ground and it starts screaming and fapping and bleeding through the mouth until it dies like a minute later.
For a bigger animal I think the same thing could be done (read my previous post). Just keep the carotid arteries squeezed to put the animal to sleep (it should still be able to breathe) , and then cut the jugular's/arteries. That way it'll die in it's sleep unable to do anything, and it won't even squirm.
^_^
I've been choked before, and put them on other people, but I've never been hurt after being choked, so I don't know if you can feel pain - but you definitely can't do anything.
Choking a person out cuts the blood circulation off to their brain, and they pass out nice and easy. Maybe it's possible to do that with the chicken - so it 'falls asleep' before it dies, then just chop it's head off real fast.
All you'd have to do is stop the blood flow to the chickens head (people can still breathe, maybe the same with a chicken). Find the carotid arteries in the neck - squeeze them, wait till their eyes close, then chop! It might not even squirm afterward.
My wife who is of Native decent agree's this is one of the more humane ways to kill a bird for food. You could break the neck but the blood is most likely to clot before you get to butcher the meat and then you would be digging around the bones and tissue trying to get the clots out. In Native traditions you thank the animal for it's gift of life while you slaughter it. She really gave a good example of this calming the bird and shedding a tear...no one wants to kill. But sometimes is nesesity.
couldnt one cute the whole head out in one go...? anyway, I'm not sure I would eat as much chicken if I had to do this everytime and I think thats a good thing.
@WickedJargon what? cutting the head out rather than just slithing the throat? the chiken is getting killed so of course theres not much to gain for it other than a decrease in suffering..
@eduardoobregon I wasn't talking about how the animal is killed. what you said was "I'm not sure I would eat as much chicken if I had to do this everytime and I think thats A GOOD THING." and i said 'maybe for you, not for the chicken.' ;)
I've learned a trick for getting off the big feathers on chickens and turkeys - rather than having to use plyers and force.... I' found that if you gently rock the feather forwards, then back - you'll hear a click, then it'll pull right out. Trick is to break it loose at the base - then comes out whole without any worry or struggle.
I just spent a day learning to butcher chickens from someone else, and I can tell you, Alexia has a special touch. Truly you are a midwife to the other side for these chickens. To die in the lap of someone so obviously trying to spare you any unnecessary suffering - what more could any of us ask for? Thank you.
@Fred5612 They don't think "outside-the-box" like we do. They don't possess the intelligence to wonder about the world. They don't attempt to discover the world using math and science, nor have the ability to create religion and culture for themselves. The only thing inside an animal's Conscious mind is its perception of its immediate surroundings.
What I like about this, besides being "real"..not just buying chicken all lovely packaged in plastic at a store w/ no idea what life that chicken went through prior (denial world)... is that if someone really could not do this, then maybe they should also consider not eating chicken. That would be me. :)
If one is going to kill and eat an animal. This is the way to do it. What you buy shrink wrapped in the store was treated no where near as humanely. Quick kill and caressed the bird.
I really like Alexia s philosophy on the whole process of killing a chicken, its very humane and refreshing. I have a small holding and I want to raise chickens for my family on a small scale. I really needed to find out how to kill a chicken in a way I would feel happy about. As a Biologist I am very comfortable to do this Alexias way. Thank you Alexia!
Thank you for your well done video. I appreciate the respect with which you handled that hen and have learned a lot from this video. Thank you once again.
This was very difficult to watch. But, it is the reality of how our food gets to our table. This woman butchered the chicken as humanely as she could.
I'm a vegan for ethical reasons. I have cats, and I have been researching raising my own chickens to feed them. This is the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long time. I feel I can now humanely feed my cats and be an example for my family on how to treat animals with respect and dignity. This women is truly an angel.
This was difficult to watch, but I believe that inevitably I'll be required to kill a bird due to illness or some other reason. It will be difficult, but seeing this and seeing how calm the bird was was helpful. I appreciate the compassion Alexia showed the bird from beginning to end. UGH! I just hope that I don't have to do it! (I'll keep my laying hens until they die a natural death, I think they've earned it.)
As a vegan, I personally wouldn't do this. But I am so grateful there is someone out there treating these animals with dignity and compassion before turning them into a food source. To all the other vegs attacking her, just think about if the filthy and miserable chickens in the rest of the food industry get to sit in a lap and be lovingly stroked before they're slaughtered. I have more respect for this woman who takes it upon herself to do this than someone going to the super market for meat.
@Azzadaarcher It's better than what KFC or any other mass-chicken producing businesses do. Also, birds don't feel as much pain as humans :)
Anways, the thing is, what most mass-chicken companies do is get terrified chickens and hang them upside-down to roll down a factory. Their throats get slit much more crudely (in a way thats bound to be painful where this would just be a bit alarming), and they get dipped in to scalding hot water while many are still alive. This is a comforting way to die:)
@avrilrocks55 I know that how there are killed on mass and i agree its horrible as some dont have time to die and are still alive when they are being processed. Therefore i think we should kill ours as humanely as possible but i think your way isnt the best either is mine but people have dfferent views on the issue anyway. And i think ur way isnt very good as even you aknolege that it can feel the pain. But what evidence is there that suggests they feel less pain anyway.
Think about the question you just asked. If the animal is dead BEFORE you bleed it then is its heart still pumping? Of course not, and thus the animal will not bleed out properly.
@Sirspeedly you need the blood to drain out the chickens body while the heart is still beating. if the blood stays in the chickens body while its dead the blood it will turn the meat bad.
@Sirspeedly When a chicken's neck is broken, the chicken's heart stops. When the heart stops, the wings flap. Bleeding out the chicken causes the chicken to struggle less during the slaughter. The chicken calmly goes.
That's just weird
txroye 3 days ago
With her calm voice its like "oh man this is so soothing" and then you hear the squish of dead bird...... forgot what i was watching for a sec
gardengreentheworld 3 days ago
Why not just place it in a chicken size funnel with its head out, hang it upside down, and off with the head? Seams fast. Why does cutting the wind pipe effect the bleeding?
txroye 3 days ago
Talk about a female Bob Ross!
zachariah2391 6 days ago
@zachariah2391I absolutely loved Bob Ross. His take on the world around him was so idyllic. I remember when he screwed up something on the canvas he was painting and he would just shrug it off as “happy little accidents.” What a wonderful human being. I miss him!
MrAnthonyRizzo 1 day ago
It is good method to cut the artery as seen for bleeding out. However ripping or cutting the head off is not productive for the bleed out and causes a reaction to the body and also bad for the meat. It is better to slice the neck as shown and then to place a blade inside the mouth and then push through the soft palate between the eyes and slice the brain in half as this will destroy any process of brain function and the meat is not affected.
JustForFunFX 6 days ago
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OH. MY. GOD.
my friend is the spitting image of this woman. her voice, her mannerisms, everything.
O_o it's screwing with my head!!! ahahaha!
nazilampshade 1 week ago
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nazilampshade 1 week ago
Hi. bleeding them out seems like they are suffering over a good 30 - 40 seconds, they will feel the pain of the cut, then choke on their own blood, no? I'm assuming you bleed out first so that they loose consciousness?
Why do you not break the neck/brain stem first, then bleed out? As I understand it, breaking the brain stem shuts down all other major functions. Am I missing something?
I'm not dissilusioned over the fact that either will cause pain. It's just I've seen halal slaughter videos-
FeralTyneMan 1 week ago
And the cycle of life continues as the chicken is reincarnated as a turd!!
tucsonpersonified 1 week ago
I find her idea of talking to the chicken and comforting it as she kills is very strange, yet genius.
It must be harder to do the kill that way also.
ugkcdrock 1 week ago
I'm curious, why not just a swift decapitation?? the cut, then neck break seems superfluous.
Rain4Fuel 1 week ago
@Rain4Fuel the idea is to leave the heart beating so the blood pumps out.. as the blood pressure falls the brain wants blood so it basically does all the work for you.. where as a decapitation relies on gravity to bleed the bird.
SATxChuck 1 week ago
@Rain4Fuel I thought that too. However, I never killed a chicken. But I wondered if you just could cut off the head with razor sharp hedge shears, to make it quite quicker.
TerrierBram 1 week ago
I think your way is a little too slow..why not just kill it quickly...like cutting its head off. the chicken without a doubt feels u breaking its neck, wich is also kind slow. im in no way trying to be a nasty commentator. just asking a couple of questions. i grew up with this sort of stuff my whole life, so im used to the traditional way of killing a chicken. great video though, and good job.. oh yeah, i love homemade chicken soup too...lol
brooke14100 1 week ago
@brooke14100: From what I have read: You have to bleed the bird out or the meat will taste weird. The bird needs to be alive because the beating of the heart will actually pump all the blood out of the body before it dies. If you accidentally cut the windpipe, the bird suffers more and may die before it fully bleeds out. Some people use a mild electrical shock to first stun the bird before doing the cutting.
dafringe 1 week ago
I am interested in starting to raise chickens and call me a pussy but i wouldn't be able to do this...anyone encountered a chicken be-header, some kind of guillotine for chickens?
Calkirk19 1 week ago
This is a wonderful video. So humane and a great instruction on the possibility of how to handle and reconnect with our food source with respect and care. Please don't remove it and keep posting these. Thank you!
Ohsage1111 2 weeks ago
I keep it short and sweet... tree trimming shears.
SuperCuntpuncher 2 weeks ago
I enjoyed this video. I do however think a quicker end would have been nicer. Sure the bird was comforted, but the death was too slow. Can I ask why its neck wasnt broken first then the bleed out? Was just wondering if there was a reason or purpose ?
tfb4me 2 weeks ago
FCC approved :)...but boobs on TV...forget it.
ba7062 2 weeks ago
thank you for sharing this. i have been a hypnotist and homesteader....i realized after butchering my first chicken the level of conditioning within me that has seperated myself/all of us from our own food source...why less than 100 years ago this was NORMAL~there was no guilt~or judgement. i still am in awe of it really~i have chickens and still and getting myself deprogramed. i am grateful for this young women helpng us all.
rockineggfarm 3 weeks ago
Thank you for giving her an easy end, she seemed very calm. I wish everyone would treat their food like this. I raise pet chickens for eggs and I was faced with killing my favorite roo yesterday due to a bad injury. I couldn't do it, so my boyfriend had to do it for me. I felt bad, because this bird was my baby and I couldn't even be there to comfort him. Maybe after watching this the next time I am faced with it I will be able to do it.
Snozzify 3 weeks ago
If in this world I was forced to kill my own chicken or cows to eat I think I would probably be a vegan, I think most people would, if there where laws saying if you want to eat meat you do it yourself.
WhoChrisLiu 3 weeks ago
@WhoChrisLiu The meat she is harvesting you can't buy at the grocery store. It won't kill her family either and is full of flavour yet is much firmer than what you are used to from the grocery store and their 5 week old chickens. I raised a few birds in my back yard and while the harvest and processing are unpleasant, it is part of it. Once you've done it a few time, you get a greater respect for your food. My kids see this as a normal thing.
syl20carle 3 weeks ago
Lots of videos on this subject. Yours is the best. Probably the most humane and serene for the animal. I am very interested in doing some urban farming, but have never killed anything. Thanks for the very informational videos.
Soulman1282 3 weeks ago
would you eat your pet dog ,cat or birds when they get old.
betdan7777777 3 weeks ago
@betdan7777777 You might if the food supply dried up. Chickens aren't pets, they are given life for a single purpose. Have a look at industrial farming videos and compare that to what she is doing.
syl20carle 3 weeks ago
great video :) nice to see it done in a compassionate and respectful way.
TheWTFSOB 3 weeks ago
A fine example of how to humanely slaughter a chicken. I have pet chickens that lay eggs for me that I don't intend to butcher after they stop laying eggs, but if in the future I acquire chicks that I would to grow as meat birds, I'll use this technique. The only thing I'd do differently is maybe quickly sever the head. My philosophy behind that is is that all pain is perceived by the brain and the nervous system, so instead of bleeding out the chicken with its nervous system intact
SurvivalistSong 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the great video. There are ways to determine if a hen is currently laying. If they are a yellow-skinned variety, how long they have been laying. There is a distinct pattern in which they lose the yellow skin pigment, & regain it after laying stops, (either for the molt or when the daylight is shortest, that can be overcome with lights in the coop). There is so much knowledge that was lost, or nearly so.
Jefferdaughter 4 weeks ago
Being a vegetarian to protect the sanctity of animal life is incomplete because it only minimizes the suffering of animals that the vegetarian owns and that he has not consumed. All other animals are still at the mercy of nature or mankind. Wild animals die unpredictable deaths. Livestock animal will not, so making that inevitable moment as peaceful as possible is important. Death is an inevitability that being a vegetarian can’t stop, so striving to give animals happy lives is more practical.
MrAnthonyRizzo 4 weeks ago 5
@MrAnthonyRizzo not to mention all the land cleared to supply those Vegetarian meals.. haha.
SATxChuck 1 week ago
@SATxChuck Being a vegetarian is healthier & easier on the environment. Pound per pound you get more protein per acre from growing beans than grazing livestock but traditional small farming practices need to be encouraged because they provide a necessary balance that industrial sized agribusinesses do not. Not everyone can be vegan. It is unfair to insult farmers who raise livestock with love and compassion with the same hatred that they do to the CEO’s of places like Monsanto.
MrAnthonyRizzo 1 week ago
@MrAnthonyRizzo Aaaaaaaaaaaamen....
gardengreentheworld 3 days ago
@gardengreentheworld …and a healthy Halleluiah to you too! :)
MrAnthonyRizzo 1 day ago
@MrAnthonyRizzo Would you rather have someone give you a happy life, than kill you, or let you live your life normally and as long as you usually live? I don't really have a definite opinion regarding vegetarianism, just kinda trying to figure it all out.
KrykoStorm 2 days ago
@KrykoStorm That is a fair question. My point of view stems from having seen the story of Temple Grandin’s life. Her view on a person’s responsibility to the animals that he brings into this world makes sense. I’ve also seen news reports about scientific studies that confirm that meat from grass fed animals that are allowed to roam naturally is healthier than the alternative. That has to be some indication as to the health and happiness of the animal. BTW: I would rather be happy!
MrAnthonyRizzo 1 day ago
"Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. I wouldn't want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. I'd much rather die in a slaughterhouse, if it was done right." -Temple Grandin
MrAnthonyRizzo 4 weeks ago 2
I love how Alexia (almost) makes dying a nice thing! xD She also has a really nice soothing voice, like she couldn't kill anything!
z0il 1 month ago
We're so displaced from reality these days...most people have probably eaten hundreds of chickens and never yet seen this happen, never mind even think about the chicken as a previous living thing...
danabeanmusic 1 month ago
She is awesome. BTW old English game chickens tast wonderful. What a real chicken is supposed to taste like.
43894674126438564036 1 month ago
@43894674126438564036 - Yes! But any chicken raised on a natural diet (weeds, bugs, worms... and a little grain) tastes almost like a different bird than the industrially farmed chickens in the store. And any chicken allowed to fully mature has a richer taste, like laying hens after two or three years of laying. Especially the heritage breeds, of course!
Jefferdaughter 4 weeks ago
i loveyou,where have you been all my life?
thumpertwou 1 month ago
This is the nicest and definitely the most respectful process of killing a chicken. I'd love to meet you someday.
Cindy507 1 month ago
I raise chickens and give my spent hens to a friend who humanely harvests them. I've thought about doing it myself but didn't feel confident I could do it well. This video made me believe that I could...that is, if my chickens didn't have names. Thank you so much!
foxthermal 1 month ago
now i know that dipping them in warm/hot water makes you able to remove the feathers easier but WHY is that? what does the hot water do that make it that easy to get rid of them even though you only put the chicken in there for a very short amount of time? love how much respect you pay to your animals btw
Hackmore 1 month ago
@Hackmore also, why not just break her neck instead of going through the process of cutting her throat?
Hackmore 1 month ago
@Hackmore I was just wondering the same thing. What's the reason for cutting her throat first, instead of breaking her neck?
scottkrys 1 month ago
That you all so much for sharing this valuable info. Well done too. I feel like I could do this first try. A friend told me that any animal experiences fear when exposed to blood so not to kill more than 1 at a time in the same spot. His grandma used to wash the chopping block off with baking soda in between each chicken when killing more than one. She was the same as you with the kindness but she just chopped off heads while they ate some feed off the block.
liquidlightsurfer 1 month ago
Bakeeeh!!
deadfrontier13 1 month ago
ur like the kindest lady to animals before u kill them
jadonap 1 month ago
I'm very happy that she is so understanding in a very respectful way, I myself respect that, but its so sad.
awadoggen 1 month ago
I don't get it. About once a week a militant vegan shows up and posts some crazy rant. Why would a militant vegan go looking for videos about chickens? They just have bottled anger they need to spew? So, just to let folks know, I've been deleting these. I'm glad youtube gives me the ability to do that.
paulwheaton12 1 month ago 13
@paulwheaton12 I dont think I have ever seen a more humane, or nice way to kill a chicken. If I was a chicken this is the way I would want to go.
ryancicocki 1 month ago
@paulwheaton12 of course they are hungry you would be fussy all the time too! Great vid though very informative!
MsWillowbayOrelse 1 month ago
@paulwheaton12 I'm vegan, I see NO problem with this. Its good information in case I ever want to raise and eat chickens myself.
NexusRebellion 3 weeks ago
@paulwheaton12 I wouldn't delete them. Let the whole world see their ignorance.
scrm1 1 week ago
@paulwheaton12 You are 99.999 percents correct. What you are incorrect about is that there all vegans. Some think meat grows on trees in the back of a supermarket (got that cool chant from another youtuber)!
MrBagginsEsq 5 days ago
I recently decided that supermarket chicken was too unethical to eat (it's the only meat I eat) and so my partner and I are going to erect a chicken coop for our own consumption. This is how I will harvest the chicken. Thank you for a great video.
VenusEnvyXP 1 month ago
This is the nicest way of killing a chicken I've ever seen. Very, very nice.
Cindy507 1 month ago
I wish Alexia would do a video on how to harvest a rabbit. Any chance of this happening?
girl8593 1 month ago
break her neck? more like rip her head off!
cpilfold420 1 month ago
She is very sweet and kind. Killing an animal you have seen every day for years is a hard thing to do. It takes a certain kind of guts.
Pink makes you more... Killer Barbie. :)
dbuschhorn 1 month ago
That is way too much spiritual philosophy in 10 minutes. I feel like I'm back from church. :) I like her.
elroydsilva123 1 month ago
Do you eat the feet? I heard the feet have many vitamins.
pettyofficer30 1 month ago
Thank you I was using the head chop but this way is much nicer on both sides
stoltenburg43 1 month ago
wow, this is something that has really intimidated me, but she makes it look so easy, and she is so calm and respectful to the chicken. I'm totally impressed.
labellavita116 1 month ago
Thats it, i want to move out of the city :)
machinevos 1 month ago
What a nice person...you can tell she really respects them and wants them to feel at ease.
happymimi16 1 month ago
I guess that this is the most compassionate method that I've ever seen...if any of them are
grandmasbuttons 1 month ago
I´ve still forgotten something: What she´s doing with a few unready eggs is really nasty...
...fresh taken out of the guts, out of the chickens belly, merely wiped off at her apron - I felt queasy when I saw that! :o([
I´ve watched this video together with my girlfriend and also she felt like (and asked besides: "Where this woman get the muscle-power from, to rip of the head of a chicken...?"). :o])
HER method: A prick through the throat-skin with a very pointed and sharp knife, slicing - out...
28076130513B 1 month ago
3 questions:
1. Why you rip off the head (the blood drains off perfect, the animal would be already dead in a few seconds, also without doing this crass method), so what´s wrong to let the head on the neck?
2. Why are you "knocking" on the chickens throat for longer time before slicing?
3. What do you think about dry plucking (the body could taken on the lap, it wouldn´t have the nasty smell because of the hot wet feathers and don´t need to hang it up - so could plucked even in an apartement)?
28076130513B 1 month ago
I really appreciate this video. Thank you for sharing it with us. I love the respect and kindness shown to the chicken.
I really like that the chicken is referred to as 'she' - somehow it makes it more real for me. I refer to my pets or other livestock as their gender dictates. When we get chicken or any meat at the market it's seen as an 'it'. Somehow this referral to the chicken as a 'she' made me more aware of the value she had for the chicken's life.
TheWanderingHeather 2 months ago
I am not disturbed by the butchering, as it is perfectly fine by me. I am disturbed by: the lady's immensly soft voice, colour pink aka self-proclaimed "angel of death", as well as referral towards the chicken as "she".
Not condemning anybody, just my private opinion.
40lena 2 months ago
@40lena But what´s wrong to use a soft voice and name a chicken a "she" (and a rooster "he")...
...would it be better she would be a CRUEL slaughter woman with HARSH voice and name her "victims" CATTLE, or simply "it"...? ;o)
28076130513B 1 month ago
@40lena I agree with what you said completely. Although, I don't understand your aversion to pink. It would disturb me much more if she were wearing purple, the color of power.
sbranson01 1 month ago
holy fuck i would be freaking out
torontosportsfan1234 2 months ago
Does Alexia teach classes or workshops?
Milkweed1973 2 months ago
@Milkweed1973 Yes.
paulwheaton12 2 months ago
@paulwheaton12, only in her home region, or does she travel?
Milkweed1973 2 months ago
The other thing, anyone criticizing this interesting woman or calling her cruel had better not ever tasted any meat their entire life. Not once. No commercially slaughtered animal had this nice a life or death. If you call her names and then eat meat that was slaughtered by someone else it makes your position inferior to hers.
billk29 2 months ago
I didn't think the bleeding method would be good but she makes it look relatively gentle. I mean, you are killing something and it's hard to make it perfect. Animals are built for endurance. I think a shotgun blast to the head or anything that instantly disintegrates the brain would be the only possible improvement. I don't think head chopping would be any better. When a head is chopped the brain will lose consciousness because of loss of blood pressure. It seems that this bird did not have
billk29 2 months ago
Hey Paul: Great video. I also listened to your podcast with Alexia and enjoyed it thoroughly! I too would like to join the growing list of gentlemen proposing matrimonial bonds with Miss Allen (if you would pass my proposal on to her, I'll make sure you get an invitation). What a unique and intriguing young woman. It's no wonder she commands such interest from men (who are disenchanted with the hordes of "mall zombies" roaming the countryside).
watcherjohnny 2 months ago
For all the attacking vegans..what kind of world do you think we would live in if all animals just reproduced as they wanted? Where would they go? Where would they live, what would they eat? Do you not understand the slaughter between 1 animal & another? Many of you claim man is animal so why is it ok for a coyote to eat a chicken but not man? Were we not put on this earth too? Many animals suffer in the wild due to competing for food, diseases, etc. Man was made to be shepherds of the earth.
giddymoon 2 months ago
Please, PLEASE do more videos with Alexia....
giddymoon 2 months ago
I think I'd sleep better if I just put an axe into it. Fast, effective and barely any pain.
desalgelijk 2 months ago
I've seen so many hunters hoop and holler after the kill. That always sickened me, their rejoicing in their brutallity. If only they understood.
Good video, I respect your views...Bless
SheilaDang52 2 months ago
Wow, that is so much calmer than what happens with my chickens!!! Thank you so much for sharing this because it is a better way to go than the axe for chopper and choppee!!!
dirtpatcheaven 2 months ago
You're the calmest person I've ever seen, but instead of putting a knife in it's brain to kill the nervous system after they start bleeding, YOU RIP IT'S HEAD OFF..
333xan45 2 months ago
what a brute,never seen someone RIP a chickens head off,that was pretty interesting
PrivateDonnie 2 months ago
I agree with hollyhousekitchen in most respects. But I don't think it makes sense to say, as Alexia Allen does, that "It's just a vertebrate bias that might make a chicken seem different than a carrot." Hens are sentient; carrots are not. In fact it seems from her relatively humane way of killing hens that she herself clearly recognizes this fundamental difference between the two.
qcuser0 2 months ago
i feel like just chopping its head off would be less painfull
BrandonAnderson8002 2 months ago 8
@BrandonAnderson8002 it likes after if you do, if you cut off a pidgeons head and throw it, it will fly, same sort of thing with chickens
Llamafroguana 1 month ago
I wouldn't have the heart to do this myself but I feel alot of gratitude for your appreciative and honourable approach to killing a chicken for food. If we were living near to you I would gladly buy your chickens (don't know if you sell them). I really appreciate your work.
5WindsOfVenus 2 months ago
I rather have someone kill a chicken like this instead of the industrialized slaughterhouses of mass produced pain and agony.
nash0815 3 months ago
I'm thinking of raising chickens for food, but I can't even watch her do the bleed out part. So did the chicken struggle at all, during any part of this?
lessermystery 3 months ago
@lessermystery you should see my uncles tactic, he grabs the chicken by the wings then he karate chops the spine and shit flies everywhere! it literally shits itself then he lays it on the ground and it starts screaming and fapping and bleeding through the mouth until it dies like a minute later.
SMokEdOutTony 2 months ago
@SMokEdOutTony
O_O
klaymen 2 weeks ago
For a bigger animal I think the same thing could be done (read my previous post). Just keep the carotid arteries squeezed to put the animal to sleep (it should still be able to breathe) , and then cut the jugular's/arteries. That way it'll die in it's sleep unable to do anything, and it won't even squirm.
^_^
I've been choked before, and put them on other people, but I've never been hurt after being choked, so I don't know if you can feel pain - but you definitely can't do anything.
TheJediHighCouncil 3 months ago
I had an idea...
Choking a person out cuts the blood circulation off to their brain, and they pass out nice and easy. Maybe it's possible to do that with the chicken - so it 'falls asleep' before it dies, then just chop it's head off real fast.
All you'd have to do is stop the blood flow to the chickens head (people can still breathe, maybe the same with a chicken). Find the carotid arteries in the neck - squeeze them, wait till their eyes close, then chop! It might not even squirm afterward.
TheJediHighCouncil 3 months ago
i aint eating no chicken anymore
SuperGuille182 3 months ago
@SuperGuille182 Oh man, you should see a pig slaughter.
klaymen 2 weeks ago
My wife who is of Native decent agree's this is one of the more humane ways to kill a bird for food. You could break the neck but the blood is most likely to clot before you get to butcher the meat and then you would be digging around the bones and tissue trying to get the clots out. In Native traditions you thank the animal for it's gift of life while you slaughter it. She really gave a good example of this calming the bird and shedding a tear...no one wants to kill. But sometimes is nesesity.
saintjoqn 3 months ago 22
@saintjoqn "no one wants to kill"
I wouldn't say that.
klaymen 2 weeks ago
This is outrage! This is animal abuse! You better stop killing animals.
Kennethajap29 3 months ago
I love the way you feel about what u do /). I understand the pink sweater. Awesome video Do u have classes etc :)
museme113 3 months ago
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arinlares 3 months ago
See my chicken videos please!
3Dchickens 3 months ago
@3Dchickens Stupid...!
28076130513B 1 month ago
Why Not break her neck first? Wouldnt that be better?
hownow555 3 months ago
thank you for the info
rjsuzrider901 3 months ago
couldnt one cute the whole head out in one go...? anyway, I'm not sure I would eat as much chicken if I had to do this everytime and I think thats a good thing.
eduardoobregon 3 months ago
@eduardoobregon a good thing? maybe for you, not for the chicken.
WickedJargon 3 months ago
@WickedJargon what? cutting the head out rather than just slithing the throat? the chiken is getting killed so of course theres not much to gain for it other than a decrease in suffering..
eduardoobregon 2 months ago
@eduardoobregon I wasn't talking about how the animal is killed. what you said was "I'm not sure I would eat as much chicken if I had to do this everytime and I think thats A GOOD THING." and i said 'maybe for you, not for the chicken.' ;)
WickedJargon 2 months ago
@WickedJargon oh, sorry, well what? it would be better for chiken in general cause I would eat less! no? I mean yeah I think that makes sense...?
eduardoobregon 2 months ago
where are all the women like you?
sjc2486 3 months ago
@sjc2486 Good question...! ;o)
28076130513B 1 month ago
Thank you Thank you Thank you. That was really helpful!
KatieLindsay13409 3 months ago
ehh she does seem a little insane-o in the way she empathizes with the chickens, but at least she treats her food decently, so respect to her.
Fred5612 3 months ago
Whats wrong with a guillotine?!
schenkel123 3 months ago
Extraordinary. You have a lovely spirit.
jbarrjt 3 months ago
so kind to chicken , so I like her way.
SUMRUCUK 3 months ago
I've learned a trick for getting off the big feathers on chickens and turkeys - rather than having to use plyers and force.... I' found that if you gently rock the feather forwards, then back - you'll hear a click, then it'll pull right out. Trick is to break it loose at the base - then comes out whole without any worry or struggle.
dgme2 3 months ago
I just spent a day learning to butcher chickens from someone else, and I can tell you, Alexia has a special touch. Truly you are a midwife to the other side for these chickens. To die in the lap of someone so obviously trying to spare you any unnecessary suffering - what more could any of us ask for? Thank you.
littleredphone 3 months ago
This is why I am glad animals are not sentients.
LastXdeth 3 months ago
@LastXdeth how do you know?
Fred5612 3 months ago
@Fred5612 They don't think "outside-the-box" like we do. They don't possess the intelligence to wonder about the world. They don't attempt to discover the world using math and science, nor have the ability to create religion and culture for themselves. The only thing inside an animal's Conscious mind is its perception of its immediate surroundings.
LastXdeth 3 months ago
What I like about this, besides being "real"..not just buying chicken all lovely packaged in plastic at a store w/ no idea what life that chicken went through prior (denial world)... is that if someone really could not do this, then maybe they should also consider not eating chicken. That would be me. :)
djkenny 3 months ago
Very humane :) but damn kinda scary :p
itsmemaario 4 months ago
I think I love you
60046 4 months ago 2
aww itss so cute!
grantsypantsy100 4 months ago
are you gonna sing to it next time......?
jammer4321 4 months ago
What a woman!
timstah1971 4 months ago in playlist More videos from paulwheaton12
Well done lady. Classy job actually. I admire your intimacy with the little chicken.
pachecophil85 4 months ago
Thank You! You are an inspiration, providing practical knowledge and showing that slaughter an animal doesn't have to be a negative phrase.
chetarnett 4 months ago
If one is going to kill and eat an animal. This is the way to do it. What you buy shrink wrapped in the store was treated no where near as humanely. Quick kill and caressed the bird.
ChrisCoxRox77 4 months ago
Chicken obviously wasn't past laying..... See part 2. But nonetheless... we all gotta eat, and this is where you get chicken meat.
waypastprime 4 months ago
Ugh i got attached to the chicken already oops it's dead
kidcold100 4 months ago
I wasn't ready for 3.54 :)
SugarCoatedPills 4 months ago
Thanks for the video and useful instruction.
Flackrum 4 months ago
mmmhhhh for some reason, this video freaked me out more than the other videos.
ninetailslv100 4 months ago
I really like Alexia s philosophy on the whole process of killing a chicken, its very humane and refreshing. I have a small holding and I want to raise chickens for my family on a small scale. I really needed to find out how to kill a chicken in a way I would feel happy about. As a Biologist I am very comfortable to do this Alexias way. Thank you Alexia!
boredbutbeautiful 4 months ago 2
What do people say when they come to your backyard and see blood on the ground? Lol
TheGreatNecromancer 4 months ago
Happy I'm not a chicken
TheGreatNecromancer 4 months ago
O.O
TheGreatNecromancer 4 months ago
Thank you for your well done video. I appreciate the respect with which you handled that hen and have learned a lot from this video. Thank you once again.
Wardeenio 4 months ago
Great video, and good onya for being into permaculture .....like I am :)
5Fathom5 4 months ago
and some day martians will eat us and round and round it goes
ETECHJOEs 4 months ago
This was very difficult to watch. But, it is the reality of how our food gets to our table. This woman butchered the chicken as humanely as she could.
ReasonablyMe 4 months ago
Thank you, Thank you for sharing this process. Incredibly helpful!
mollyanna21 4 months ago
I'm a vegan for ethical reasons. I have cats, and I have been researching raising my own chickens to feed them. This is the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long time. I feel I can now humanely feed my cats and be an example for my family on how to treat animals with respect and dignity. This women is truly an angel.
Jen2848 4 months ago
This was difficult to watch, but I believe that inevitably I'll be required to kill a bird due to illness or some other reason. It will be difficult, but seeing this and seeing how calm the bird was was helpful. I appreciate the compassion Alexia showed the bird from beginning to end. UGH! I just hope that I don't have to do it! (I'll keep my laying hens until they die a natural death, I think they've earned it.)
panchobrinks 5 months ago
woman of my dreams :D
sonnyderplaya 5 months ago 2
As a vegan, I personally wouldn't do this. But I am so grateful there is someone out there treating these animals with dignity and compassion before turning them into a food source. To all the other vegs attacking her, just think about if the filthy and miserable chickens in the rest of the food industry get to sit in a lap and be lovingly stroked before they're slaughtered. I have more respect for this woman who takes it upon herself to do this than someone going to the super market for meat.
hollyhousekitchen 5 months ago 38
Just wanted to say thank you for posting this vid. I learned some hepful things i didnt know. I also clicked the ad in the video which was good too.
weavers1acrefarm 5 months ago
You don't wring their necks? I am curious why you think your method is better?
mcgivermandlw 5 months ago
@mcgivermandlw its not better its cruel as the chicken is left to bleed to dead to is wrong :L
Azzadaarcher 5 months ago
@Azzadaarcher It's better than what KFC or any other mass-chicken producing businesses do. Also, birds don't feel as much pain as humans :)
Anways, the thing is, what most mass-chicken companies do is get terrified chickens and hang them upside-down to roll down a factory. Their throats get slit much more crudely (in a way thats bound to be painful where this would just be a bit alarming), and they get dipped in to scalding hot water while many are still alive. This is a comforting way to die:)
avrilrocks55 4 months ago
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@avrilrocks55 I know that how there are killed on mass and i agree its horrible as some dont have time to die and are still alive when they are being processed. Therefore i think we should kill ours as humanely as possible but i think your way isnt the best either is mine but people have dfferent views on the issue anyway. And i think ur way isnt very good as even you aknolege that it can feel the pain. But what evidence is there that suggests they feel less pain anyway.
Azzadaarcher 2 months ago
@Azzadaarcher *acknowledge
Azzadaarcher 2 months ago
i have a question? why not just do something to the brain? instead of the jugular?
fishdude333 5 months ago
This is amazing, you were so kind and respectful, this was a wonderful video to see!!! Such a calm process!!! Thanks for this educating video!!!
Hexxus245 5 months ago 3
@huntdogg1
Think about the question you just asked. If the animal is dead BEFORE you bleed it then is its heart still pumping? Of course not, and thus the animal will not bleed out properly.
benderb12 5 months ago
you beheaded a chicken with your bare hands and one slice of a knife, your what is known as a don >.> great vid :D
1234rinor1234 5 months ago
I have a question regarding the process you show here.
Why is it that you cut the jugular before breaking the chicken's neck (as opposed to just breaking her neck and being done with it)?
Sirspeedly 5 months ago
@Sirspeedly you need the blood to drain out the chickens body while the heart is still beating. if the blood stays in the chickens body while its dead the blood it will turn the meat bad.
773Otis 5 months ago
@773Otis Ah, ok. Thank you for the explanation. =)
Sirspeedly 5 months ago
@Sirspeedly When a chicken's neck is broken, the chicken's heart stops. When the heart stops, the wings flap. Bleeding out the chicken causes the chicken to struggle less during the slaughter. The chicken calmly goes.
teastham72 3 months ago