Show KILLING POULTRY 1 1 how zw farm people prepare rep are chicken chickens for market t in 11 EIF eiff 1 mr ia an article on fa farm ara poultry in the journal of the royal agricultural society of england says with regard to the mode of killing fowls intended for s sale tie the almost universal practice in england is to break their necks this should be done by seizing the legs s of the fowl in the left hand and the head in the right the back of the bird being behig upward and the comb in the hollow of the hand if the legs of the bird are then held against g the left hip and the head against the right thigh near the knee by strongly extending the fowl at the same time bringing the head suddenly backward the latter is dislocated from the top of the neck and death results instantaneously all the larger vessels being torn across and the blood escaping into the skin skia of the neck muscular contractions remain however for some minutes during which time the fowl if put down knocks itself about bruising the flesh it should therefore be held in the hand or hung up by a string around tho the legs to a hook in the ceiling the fowl having been killed should be plucked while warm in face fac the professional killers proceed to remove the feathers immediately after dislocating the neck as they then come out very easily and the skin do do not n noblet t let t ap T zot 11 a i is no cruelty in doing this even if it t vh wf before the muscular contractions have ceased as the head of tho the fowl is removed from the body being connected only by the skin and all sensation ia is at an end when carefully plucked the fowls should be placed on their backs the hocks being tied tog together ealier ef lier th the ewings wings twisted behind behin d the back and the neck allowed to hang down so that the fluid blood accumulates in it under no circumstances cum stances should the breast bone be broken as it deteriorates very much the value of the fowl it is needless to say that tho legs and feet if they are soiled should bo be washed before the birds are sent to market |