How to humanely butcher a chicken Part one

[MrBagginsEsq]

How do you keep the water hot?

[onigiriponystaar]

We butchered one of our roosters last December, but we did it with a hatchet. That was a pretty traumatizing experience. This chicken looks much more calm. No death throes, even?

[jaymorpheus11]

I wonder if it says "cage free" on it... if it's really cage free

[onigiriponystaar]

@jaymorpheus11 Most of the time, "cage free" just means crowding the birds all into a big shed. You can't really be sure, unless you are allowed to see the place the animal was raised.

[sunkissedbeach]

Thank you for teaching your children correctly about horrible factory farms. My husband and I have just placed our first order of chickens for eggs, from Murray McMurry and we plan on getting some meat chickens to. I grew up with my cousins and their huge egg producing farm. We will give these chickens a beautiful life until the time comes for them to go to the big chicken coop in the sky. I am sick of eating hormones.

[NavyBlueSTL]

Do you save the blood and feathers for the compost pile? They are good amendments.

[ymoncibaez]

gracias por el video y por la forma de matar al pollo, uno de los mejores



[Fapfapfa]

@Themodernprepper Is it really worth the work to butcher chickens. I have been thinking of raising a few for eggs. but this seems like a lot of hassle. to butcher one for meat. I mean i can buy a chicken from the store for 6 bucks. I'm being a prick. This is a serious question. is it worth the hassle butchering..do you raise chickens just for meat?

[longhelltime]

Haha, people who live in citys are dam pussies, i lived in China for years, and this is almost how we butcher our chicken when we prepare our meals. The blood is saved so and made into this pancake like substance, so we dont waste any of the chicken

[LisaSpringfield]

They need to be shocked. This is still cruel.

[chickenbonewatt]

Kick ass video. I hope to have some chickens in the future and will have to do this. You made it seem so simple that I believe I can do it!!

[inandish]

i raised wether lambs for two years in the FFA. i can honestly tell you that, even though it is sad that they only live for a year, my lambs were much happier being raised and loved and trained by one person. we often let all the lambs out of there pens to play and they always froliced. i will always miss my little Psycho but i know he had a happy life. he was slaghtered humainly as well.

[Zippy1one]

Wouldn't it be more humane to knock it out first?

[doughboy09bravo]

@Zippy1one They dont feel anything, once they are upside down the blood rushes to their head. My butcher explained by the time you cut the artery they feel nothing because they die instantly with no stress or pain.

[TheEpisteme]

@Zippy1one By what, hitting it over the head or something? Best to just cut its throat than fool around doing anything else. They don't slowly fade to black over several seconds like you may have experienced if you've ever blacked out from standing up too fast or something. Their brains aren't as complex and they don't have near as much blood. Its literally over in about a second if cut right.

[sunkist5809]

Thank you so much for showing this. We butchered our first two roosters yesterday by wathcing your video first. It was very helpful. We did exactly like you did and our chickens turned out very nice.

[TheRealXesc]

Thank you very much, sir, for this excellent video!

It is essential to learn to take care of your own food, more and more so every day!

This was by far the most gentle slaughtering technique I've ever seen, the chicken had no pain, no idea of what was going on, and it was gentle as it can get.

I agree, the children should learn, and know where the food come from - we all should!

God bless you, and thank you for the time to produce this video!

[WazziGltd]

few more weeks of processing my first quail. Wish me luck and thank you for your informative video.

[SuperPilgore]

Great video. Very helpful

[sbrebook]

This is the islamic way of slaughtering, which has been proven to be the most humane method by a German study. One cut severing the jugulars with one swift cut will lead to an immediate blood pressure loss to the brain, and thus immediate unconsciousness.

[maribelytony]

Good job. Now I feel like eating beer can chicken🍻😄

[WickedJargon]

Do you think vegetarianism is ethically justified given that the way they are butchered in slaughterhouses is much less humane than here?

[Bamazrollin]

For those who think this is cruel, go watch how tyson processes them and then say this is cruel..

[DavidsSQUIRREL]

i have been butchering chickens my whole life and i have never seen anyone use a knife and hang them by their feet until i went on youtube... i always have a log with two nails and use a hatchet you save alot more neck meat then what you got there, and i also boil the feet and peel the skin off of them plus pull the nails.. you can either naw on them there not to bad or give them to a bigger sized dog cuz a smaller one can choke on the bone

[DavidsSQUIRREL]

but i guess when we butcher them we do at least 100 at a time

[danisjumpers]

Thank you for posting this video. I now have a better idea of what to do.

[Jefferdaughter]

Well done video, thanks.  But... those are pin feathers; birds don't have any hair (only mammals do).

[TheModernPrepper]

@Jefferdaughter You are correct, it is just an easier way for me to describe them to a novice.

[MrIndustriall]

@Jefferdaughter I'd like to introduce you to the Silkie chicken.

[SnakeKeeper2010]

@Jefferdaughter Um if you ever butchered a chicken then yo know they do have little hairs all over. Not pin feathers.

[horseisbeauty]

I did this as a child, my parents had chickens and turkeys now and then as extra food sources. (and we just liked having them around) I did this as a kid and am looking to do this again so I started looking at video, some really looked uncool.. We did a little different but this looks like something I could actually do myself. Thank you for posting this, it's really informative!

[IMikeTysonI]

dont you feel abit cruel doing that?

[Kooletz71]

@IMikeTysonI Do you not eat meat?

[TheModernPrepper]

@IMikeTysonI Cruel, no.

[cherryskittles000]

@IMikeTysonI how is it cruel? Animals kill other animals more horrifically! This is how back in the day I killed my chickens. Now I am a vegetarian, for ethical reasons. I just don't have the energy anymore to go get a chicken and kill it and the big food name companies are disgusting and inhumane. I don't even know how many people do it in the kind way this man is doing it. So, vegetarianism is what i've resulted to for 25 years. I prefer CAK though.

[TheIronicBanana]

@IMikeTysonI its a lot less cruel then the conditions in farming factories.

[gildrop]

@IMikeTysonI how is this cruel? If he was killing just to kill it then it would be cruel. But if hes going to eat it then nothing wrong with that

[2edsajdmsa]

"until he started crowing", bad move mr chicken, bad move.

[uswlet52]

What the heck ..did that chicken just cry ...just kidding that was a great video.

[justinbieberluver010]

Thank you for this vid!! My grandpa does this but after watching ur vid... he is doing it the right way. lol

[kraizil]

i hate kids

[sheilaann120]

wonderful video David. Thank you so much for making this. I have chickens and I plan this week to butcher 6 of them. I have watched several videos on youtube and yours is by far the best. I feel that i can now do this and have no worries about it. Thank you again, and your baby girl who really made it all calming. May you and yours be blessed.

[TheModernPrepper]

@sheilaann120 Thank you for the kind words, I feel it is vital that my children know where their food comes from and that is not the same barbaric, unethical methods used by the large food producers they see in the news.

[kingdizzydotcom]

Do you agree with some people who Pierce the brain to stop them spasm'ing around after ? i noticed yours didn't move after, seemed like a very clean cut.

was curious what your opinion was on the brain piercing, weather its necessary or not. ?

the piercing of the brain is illustrated here.

/watch?v=vy_vutu5qO0

[TheModernPrepper]

@kingdizzydotcom I have done it both ways and their is still struggling. To me it is an un needed extra step. I am working on another video this week using a different restraining method that will help alleviate most of this problem.

[Musicisliberation]

Okay, look, if you can't stand to see how your food is made, then you do not deserve to eat it!

[thedetective22]

yeah abuse the animal u fuggin disgusting Christians !!

[stap0510]

@thedetective22

No abuse at all.

And where in this video did he stated that he is a Christian, and what does that have to do with any of this?

[TheModernPrepper]

@thedetective22 Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect that, but people may take you more seriously if you could put together an argument with out name calling.

[WellHellooooThere]

Proud to be a vegetarian...

[btray11]

So when store chicken have hair on them, is it because they don't clean them right? or do they keep the hair on them for a purpose?

[dharkcharlotte]

Thanks for sharing this! I helped a neighbor process chickens but he used a plucker. The neighbor is moving and I was unsure how to pluck by hand.

[TNGun]

Great video thanks

[colejennifer]

Very well done! I have three roosters which I'm unable to give away so I will have to kill them humanely. Honestly it's not something I choose to do but that's part of farm living.

Thank you for posting!

[TheCritterShop]

I dont think 'Humane' and 'Butcher' go in the same sentence xD Butcher sounds so horrible lol. But, good job. Nice and easy. Good job!

[TheMrsVolfie]

@TheCritterShop If you don't want to say "butcher" you can say "harvest"

[id493337]

@TheCritterShop

It don't matter hat you call it, it still mean the same thing... and the kind of humane your thinking of is either starving to death or vegetarian.

[imstillworkin]

Thank you for posting this. I hope I never have to kill a chicken but now I know how. It doesn't look as bad as I expected.

[TheModernPrepper]

@imstillworkin Thanks, it really is not as bad as people think. Later this week I will post a video on cleaning and processing them for storage.

[TheMrsVolfie]

@imstillworkin Nice Job..They do struggle a bit as the last of the blood leaves..thanks for not showing that!!