Do you feel chicken out to slaughter a chicken?

You are not alone many are of the same feelings. You remind me of my friend asking How brave are you ? The answer is, don't know I can't even afford to kill a little cockroach.

When my daughter started having chickens she went on a course describing how to kill one humanely. She has never managed to kill one yet, her husband does it for her. I would like to keep chickens for the pleasure of fresh eggs and I have heard of a couple of people who would kill them for me if they got sick. I would not kill them just because they ceased to lay eggs. Even so, I am a little dubious about getting some and becoming fond of them as they lay their eggs for me to steal...

My mother used to tell me stories about her life on the farm when she was small and killing chickens was one of her least favorite things. I would not want to kill one but I do envy her growing up with safe food. They did not add chemicals to the chicken food or cattle feed and all their meat was free range, not caged. They were kind to their animals. The conditions of the meat we eat now are deplorable and they are fed growth hormones and God only knows what else. So I would not want to kill a chicken but I could if I had to because my mother told me how to do it quickly and humanely.

I would rather someone else do the slaughtering of the meat I eat. I also prefer it be packaged so it no longer looks like what it was originally was.

No. My brother told me how in his friends country, everybody raises and kills their own chickens. Not me. I'd be crying the whole while and possibly faint. I think we're not allowed to own live chickens in our yard unless it's on a farm anyway.

Since I was a kid, I help my mother slaughter my father's chicken, so I have no problem doing it. But it's pity to feel them dying in your hands and I understand why there are people don't have the guts to do it. I don't like it too but of course I was a kid, doing what the parents told me to do, then I got used to it.

Hello Shavkat. When I was a little girl I lived with my grandparent and they raised all their own meat and garden. They raised at least one calf and a pig or two for the freezer and for canning. They also raised at least 100 chickens every year and we had to butcher them when they were ready. Sometime my grandpa would do the job of killing them and some time my grandmother did. She had a bucket of water heating on the stove to be ready for dunking and plucking the chickens when they were killed. When I got older and married we raised chickens as well. It was my job to pull off the chickens heads, pluck and degut them. Now we also raised a few rabbit for meat too. Now I had no problem with killing the chickens or any other fowls that we raised but I could not pull off the heads of the rabbits but I could skin and clean them. I also got to cook them and they were so good to eat.

I buy all of my meat, poultry and fish already processed. I just go to a grocery store usually. You could say I am chicken or another word for it is squeamish. I do not like to imagine what I am eating up and functioning and alive.

Yes, I also prefer to buy my chickens in the market or supermarket! What I can't stand is to see somebody slaughtering one, as I find it quite unpleasant, even though I do eat them eagerly!

I've thought about how neat it would be to keep chickens in the back yard for pest control, eggs, meat, and natural fertilizer. However, I don't think I could kill one either. If my hubby would do it, he's insist I pluck it and gut it too and I surly wouldn't do that either. I'm such a city girl! Feed them fine. Gather eggs fine. Clean the coop fine. Turn them into dinner.... no way! But the one plus side is you'd know what your chicken was fed and if it was given any antibiotics ect. I'd rather have an "organic" chicken but like most can't afford it and just go to the regular grocery store and pray everything is safe to eat.

I have never killed a chicken, but saw my grandmother do it many times when I was a child. As we live in a big citiy, I just buy the chicken at the supermarket. I could not even find a live chick here any longer.

I like them already done for me, but while growing up my parents would kill off about 50 of them a year to feed us for the year, along with Turkeys, pigs, veal calf, and a steer.

I am a a strict vegetarian.I have never taken chicken or even eggs as my food.So no question of killing chicken arises.In fact,I wonder how people kill these poor creatures when there are so many vegetables and corns available to eat and keep ourselves alive.I can't even dream of taking the life of a chicken only because I want to eat them.Many of my friends are non veg,but it's their choice. Please,don't take it as offending.

I could not do this either, or do this then eat it. I rarely eat meat, so I could go without it if I had to do this.

I grew up in a country where I witnessed the slaughtering of chickens. I would not have the guts to do it then and I would still not have the guts to do it today. In the US, I would not have to deal with this part, although watching/witnessing it could be heartbreaking. I could not imagine having to do it myself. I guess, I would need to live in a farm in order to really have the guts and iron mind to do it.

In my local, men usually responsible about slaughtering a chicken. Women don't do this thing. However, my husband doesn't like to do. So, I usually buy chicken in the market. Although, I like to eat fresh chicken more, so I wish my husband can do that.

hi, actually in my native province they will only catch chicken in the yard and they will slaughter it from alive,but i can not look to the chicken because i can't,and here in the city we always buy chicken already slaughter because no one will do that if we will buy alive chicken.

We never kill chicken, goat even fish to eat, we buy readily dressed always but FRESH,If i see the killing procedure i can never eat.

Chicken is tasty but I never slaughter a chicken because I did not dare. When I was little I see my father slaughter a chicken and it was terrible. Blood going out from chicken throat and chicken sounding moan in pain for a long time. Now we do not keep chickens again. Now we only buy in the groceries or market.

ohhh no, I am okay seeing chicken being slaughtered... it is a food chain.. remember the cycle... the small worms eaten by chicken, then we will eat the chicken and worms will eat us when we die. LOL. just making you smile or gross out lol. Seriously I don't mind, see chickens being slaughtered for we know that chickens are intended for food. Well, there are about 10 billion chickens and 6 billion people so 10,000,000,000:6,000,000,000 and not all 6 Billion people eat 1 whole chicken. LOL. so why not. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_ratio_of_chickens_per_person