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Originally Posted by kennyc

I grew up on a (chicken) farm. And one of the annual tasks was to kill, clean and freeze chicken for the family. There was no chopping involved, dad would grab the chickens by the head and whirl them around literally wring their necks pulling the head from the body, they'd flop around spurting blood everywhere til they were completely dead and we'd then clean, butcher and package. I was just a kid, maybe 8/9 years old and wasn't really strong enough to emulate my dad so all I could do was stand on their head and pull to get the same result!

Ouch! I hope you were heavy enough to at least squash the brain quickly enough to render them unconscious.... Honestly, it does sound a less than ideal way of slaughtering chickens.

The chicken farm we lived on when I was six, was more like modern ones (it was in '78/'79) and the chickens were taken away for slaughter. Before we had the chicken farm, my father kept dwarf chickens on a hobby basis which he'd slaughter himself, but I've later learned my mother was squeamish enough to keep me and my brother away when he chopped their neck At that age, I'm pretty sure I would have been fascinated But, at least I never learned to think that food comes from the supermarket