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Headless Cock

Have you seen a chicken run around with its head cut off?

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  • I'm blind, I may have...

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Brigandier

Brigandier

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Most of us have heard the phrase, "running around like a chicken with its head cut off"

So just how many of us have witnessed chickens running around with their heads cut off?
 
i have unfortunately 🙁

saw a neighbor who owned a farm butcher chickens one time. they do run around after their heads are chopped off.

i will say though, i never saw a rooster get its head chopped off as these were hens.
that would mean i have never seen a headless cock then so to speak.
 
Yes, I have.

My grandparents had a chicken farm when I was maybe 3-5 y/o and lived with them.

Edit: And yes they're all hens though
 
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Yes I have seen both hens and roosters being butchered and having their heads cut off on a farm. And yes both chicken sexes behave the same way, they run around without a head for awhile, maintaining decent balance meanwhile for 10 or 20 seconds.

Afterword, Plucking a chicken and getting their feathers off is an experience I never want to repeat.
 
Lemon law said:
Yes I have seen both hens and roosters being butchered and having their heads cut off on a farm. And yes both chicken sexes behave the same way, they run around without a head for awhile, maintaining decent balance meanwhile for 10 or 20 seconds.

Afterword, Plucking a chicken and getting their feathers off is an experience I never want to repeat.
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We had a turkey fryer set up with near boiling water, a quick dip and aggressive reverse petting got the feathers off pretty easily.
 
I have witnessed this when our neighbors slaughter their chickens. What I have yet to figure out is why the headless chickens can do this? Think about this. Running around requires balance, brain impulses to the muscles, etc. If I had not known they run around without their heads, I would have guessed they would have fell over and perhaps wiggled their feet for a bit. But to do all these brain intensive issues, has puzzled me for quite some time. Especially when you see a chicken without a head fall over and get back up. How can they do this without a head?
 
I've done it once, just to show some of my son's friends why I don't do it like that - it makes a mess. Blood everywhere. More effective: I hang them upside down, they calm down really quickly. I stroke their neck softly to get them to relax, then using a razor sharp blade, I carefully make slits on their neck & allow them to bleed out. They never even flinch when I cut through those jugulars or carotids, or whatever they are. The blood just runs out into a bucket below them. (I don't want my yard to look like a Friday 13th setting) It would sort of be like going in for a blood donation, but they kept taking blood out of you until you passed out and eventually bled to death. You can even watch their eyes eventually shut as if they're falling asleep. It's probably about as painless as possible for the chicken, and it's more effective at getting the blood out of the meat.

Cutting their heads off and having them run around is just morbid. And messy.
 
Raizinman said:
I have witnessed this when our neighbors slaughter their chickens. What I have yet to figure out is why the headless chickens can do this? Think about this. Running around requires balance, brain impulses to the muscles, etc. If I had not known they run around without their heads, I would have guessed they would have fell over and perhaps wiggled their feet for a bit. But to do all these brain intensive issues, has puzzled me for quite some time. Especially when you see a chicken without a head fall over and get back up. How can they do this without a head?
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The time I saw it, we were slaughtering about 25 chickens. Maybe 1 in 10 could actually walk. The others, they flapped their wings, kicked their legs and went in circles.

I think it depends on how close you get to a good chop.

All I know is that the dog and cat thought that the slaughter was the most interesting thing they ever saw. They'd sit by the chopping block and watch the chickens flap, walk, pirouette around. It almost seemed the pets were watching a sporting event.
 
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