Okay two people responded, but it is enough interest for me:) There are lots of pictures, so there will probably be at least two posts. And so they won't be in order. And looking at some of the pictures I see, I think the technical term is, overexposed. I tried to take non gruesome pictures. But this does involve the death and skinning of chickens, so continue at your own risk.
Because every coop should have a killing cone attached to the side :)
Jack picking out the first lucky bird. Really we did try to be kind here. We were not rough with them and tried to make it as quick and gentle as possible. I put them out by themselves in our run earlier in the day. Their last hours were of scratching in the mud and eating bugs.
First thing is to make the chicken dizzy. They get very light headed when held upside down and usually quiet right down. The first one didn't, but the rest did. Of course the first one we did was the head roo.
Chicken in the cone. Jack wants to mess with the design a little bit. It did work. Sorry there are no actual pictures of slitting the throat. One, I helped Jack and two I really felt that it would be too gruesome.
And Natalie helping pick the next chicken. Gwen was probably the cutest one. She kept going up the the chicken as it was bleeding out and saying chicken, bawk!!! bawk!!! Yes, a little disturbing, but it was funny at the time.
