Oh man I HATE processing poultry. I got a sweet deal on some very nice, big chickens and a few ducks...$2 apiece because the gal needed space and couldn't afford to feed 'em. MASSIVE birds for $2 each??? Heck yeah! Only thing was, I had to process 'em myself. I've done literally THOUSANDS of pheasants in my life, I figured, how hard could a few chickens and ducks be?
Yeah thing is, when I have a pheasant that needs dispatching, I wring the neck and done with it. No thrashing. These guys...too big to just wring their necks. To make matters worse I blew out my shoulder right before I was gonna dispatch them so I had to have a friend over to help. My friend held 'em, I quick-like chopped off their heads with a single hard blow with my good arm.
I've never seen so much thrashing in my entire life. It was horrid. By the time we were done, we were covered in blood, feathers and sweat. Miserable work!!! I'll take a dozen kicking rabbits over a single freaking chicken ANY DAY.
I'll have chickens when I have more space and am zoned for it...and I will eat all their eggs. Forget chicken meat, that's why I have rabbits.