I hate to say this but...

[Southern by choice]

Chickens I don't have issue with but geesh the geese and ducks... so much harder.
Wish I could find a better way. We do the jugular. This year we just gave the extra geese away just to avoid it. I LOVE duck though, but we aren't doing ducks til we move.

 

[Kyanite]

At this time of year, we have around 30-40 new members introducing themselves on the New Members Introductions every day - it usually takes me over an hour each day to greet 'em. Welcoming you guys would be a drop in the ocean (as long as you didn't collude and all join on the same day )

That's exactly why I can't manage to greet everyone. I do try to get over there from time to time and greet as many as possible, but I don't often have that kind of time.

Chickens I don't have issue with but geesh the geese and ducks... so much harder.
Wish I could find a better way. We do the jugular. This year we just gave the extra geese away just to avoid it. I LOVE duck though, but we aren't doing ducks til we move.

We want to get into ducks, both for the eggs and meat. Mostly meat though. I'm no fan of "that" day. But I prefer it over store bought. I always just figured they'd get done like the chickens.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Chickens I don't have issue with but geesh the geese and ducks... so much harder.
Wish I could find a better way. We do the jugular. This year we just gave the extra geese away just to avoid it. I LOVE duck though, but we aren't doing ducks til we move.

SBC we do ducks...pekins and muscovy. The best method for me so far is a 5 gallon bucket. I stick the duck in the bucket and then sit on the back edge of it with the ducks head out of the bucket between my legs, stretch out the neck and use a sharp knife to quickly cut juglars and drop the head back into the bucket. CAUTION...wear old clothes, you will get blood on you. Anyhow the bucket keeps them in one spot so they dont flop all over and also keeps them restrained until you get the juglar cut. That's the easiest one person method we found.

If there are two of us we stretch the neck over a large round log(laying down) and the other person uses a sharp ax to knock the head clean off in one go. Then we just stick them in a 5 gallon bucket.

We have not done geese yet but i imagine either way would work....DH has joked about using the 22 on geese....at least i believe he was joking.

 

[MikeLM]

I'm scared of all the BYCers

I left BYC to come here because it got too crowded over there.

And now they're all over here!

What if they stay?
What if we never go back to the way it was!!!

...

(What if I'm overreacting? )

I was just going to visit and leave, but now I'm staying.

 

[CinnamonEli]

I'm also from byc, but I came here last year. Long before the news of the move.

 

[misfitmorgan]

If, I maybe, by a chance, wanted to stay, would I be hearing groans or would I be allowed to stay? I can just sit in the corner with the chickens, and I'll try to hush up?



Oh boy. I had a feeling a thread like this would come up sooner or later, i had a feeling we'd drive y'all bonkers in a matter of time.

Your more then welcome...so is anyone else.

 

[Baymule]

I butchered Pekins and I hung them up by their feet. I cut their heads off and let them bleed out. You're right @misfitmorgan wear old clothes! I looked like I was the star in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

 

[Southern by choice]

We have always set them on the ground...after the neck we just hold them up to bleed out.... can't imagine hanging a duck or goose by the feet. We use a killing cone for chickens.
Turkeys we shoot then bleed out. They are too big for cones.
We don't pluck ducks or geese - we just take the meat- pull back the skin.

 

[BYHforlife]

Hey guys! I wanted to post this on BYC but they are now un-operational, so...

My routine every morning:



Get compost for chickens.
Fill water bucket for chickens.
Go outside, feed cats.
Cats ignore food and follow me.
Halfway to coop, put water and compost down to get feed from shed.
Cats try to drink chicken water.
I open shed and open feed bin.
Cats try to get into feed bin.
I put the lid on the feed bin.
Cats try to eat feed out of bucket.
I pick bucket up.
Cats try to eat compost.
I pick the compost and water up.
Cats follow me to coop.
I dump compost into run, cats try to eat the leftovers in the bucket
I fill the water, cats try to drink water again
I fill the feed, cats try to lick the dust out of bucket
I clean the coop, cats sit outside the coop window meowing.
I go back to the house. Cats resume eating. Time wasted? YES!!!

 

[HeavensHens88]

We're exceedingly grateful for all of the gracious welcomes you all have given the transplant BYCers.
I'm intending to stick around once BYC returns, so y'all can't get rid of me too easily...