how the chicken got to your table
By Cutie18f
@Cutie18f (9551)
Philippines
January 19, 2013 8:54pm CST
This discussion is inspired by a fellow Mylotter who talked about slaughtering chickens. Well, I was able to witness quite a few of these slaughterings of chickens when I was a kid. Back in the day, people didn't buy dressed chickens if they wanted one for dinner or lunch. They bought live chickens which they slaughter and dress ready for cooking. So this was how I remembered it was done.
The chicken's neck is sliced but when this happens you can see the chicken wriggling, trying to set itself free. Some people can do this procedure all by themselves but there are others who do this with the help of another person who holds the body of the poor chicken, while the other one holds the neck to slice or cut it.
In the meantime, water is boiled for the next procedure. The whole chicken is dipped in hot water, after which the features are plucked or removed by hand (at that time). When the chicken is cleaned of all the feathers, it is sliced into parts ready for cooking.
Have you ever been a witness to this act?
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12 responses
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
20 Jan 13
the story behind it is quite interesting and also quite funny to hear,the boiling process is quite complicated and if anyone sees what is happening behind,no one will prefer to eat it for sure
@AgentGulaman (3546)
• Philippines
20 Jan 13
Well, I haven't just witnessed this chicken slaughtering. I have also participated in doing so a lot of times and also have tried it on once. We do have chickens before when I was still a kid in our yard. What you have described in here is exactly how we do it. You really can find the chicken wriggling for life when you slice its neck and see blood squirting out. The hardest part will be trying to catch the chicken first especially if it isn't tied up. They can peck your hands out if you are not careful. Been pecked a lot of times before!
@Raine38 (12250)
• United States
20 Jan 13
Yes, when I was a little kid and we would go to my grandma in the province for some fiesta. And that is exactly how my aunts and uncle did it, they would get chickens from their own backyard, then do exactly as you described it. It sort of scared me then and after a while they would buy their chickens already dressed so I didn't have to witness it again.
@reddog25770 (212)
• United States
20 Jan 13
I've never seen a chicken slaughtered, but my hubby is a hunter. So I've seen other birds dressed for cooking. He usually ends up with a few pheasants or grouse. Sometimes he will get lucky and get a turkey. I assume that most birds are about the same and the feathers are a pain to do for all of them.
@ksktika (271)
• United States
20 Jan 13
Yes, i saw this kind of thing when i was a little kid. i used to see in the traditional market in my country. and every year i saw they slaughtering the goats and chickens, just in front of my house. i was so sad when i saw that. and i still remember when they sliced the neck and all the animal wriggling.
wow for me it's cruel.
since then i dont want to see that again !
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
21 Jan 13
Ewww definitely not, I have never experienced this being done, and certainly wouldn't want to, if I had to go out and kill a chicken before I could eat it, I think I'd never touch a chicken again! I just wouldn't have the heart to kill it. It's like fish, my partner had to take the head of the fish before I would touch it, there's nothing worse than trying to eat something when it's looking at you!
@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
21 Jan 13
Most of the time chicken came freely to our table and suddenly gone after few seconds one by one hand cross from another.
I don't like to slaughter any chicken. Never did since I was a kid. I felt pity with animals. I prepare to buy dressed chicken in the market
I don't like to slaughter any chicken. Never did since I was a kid. I felt pity with animals. I prepare to buy dressed chicken in the market
@fantasticbabe (981)
• Philippines
20 Jan 13
yes, i saw t many times and i really felt guilty to eat a chicken especially raise by me. so f ever a chicken get killed and what i do is to turn away and not look back. i also cover my ears and close my eyes. i do not like to see them suffer. every meals that involves meat remind me that this once alive but now being serve to be eaten for the purpose of satisfying our appetite.
@Kalyni2011 (3496)
• India
30 Jan 13
I had seen once, that was such a cruel act, i could not eat chicken for next 2 months , we never kill them at home for eating, we just buy from market..
@coxjoseph5 (209)
• United States
20 Jan 13
Yes i have done taht many times, thats how my mother used to do it, and i was the plucker, hated that job the feathers are hot and wet and stick to your hands.
modern kids dont know what they have missed, i used to peel the apples for my mother to make apple pie, and it was really good.
joe
@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
20 Jan 13
i do it. I can do it. 
without hesitation. Chickens are for people... there is no other way how to deal with them but that way.
It could be cruelty for some eyes, for others they are... fried chicken lol. I am just kidding. It could be cruelty but chickens are really for that. so I feel no guilt when I did that to chicken.
without hesitation. Chickens are for people... there is no other way how to deal with them but that way. It could be cruelty for some eyes, for others they are... fried chicken lol. I am just kidding. It could be cruelty but chickens are really for that. so I feel no guilt when I did that to chicken. 