respectful chicken harvest part 1 of 2 kill and pluck - how to

http://permies.com Alexia Allen of Hawthorn Farm is a wilderness skills instructor who also has a small farm in Woodinville, Washington. I thought she did a really good job of demonstrating a respectful harvest of a chicken. I thought about trying to squeeze everything into a five minute video and decided instead to edit out very little. So there are two parts. This part is ten minutes and focused on killing the chicken and plucking the feathers from the chicken. Part 2 will be about separating the tasty parts from the not so tasty parts: butchering. (twelve minutes) Alexia has many approaches to her philosophies about harvesting animals: "I usually like wearing pink when I do my butchering. It makes me the angel of death. I have come to this process of killing animals with this sense of being almost a midwife? Or at least when I teach people about butchering chickens I want to emphasize It's not about being brutal or macho, it's really about 'hey, you kill things and eat them.' That's part of how the world seems to work. I didn't make up how the world works. It just seems to be what needs to happen whether it is a chicken or a carrot. It's just a vertabrate bias that might make a chicken seem different than a carrot." FAQ: Why not just take the head off right away? A: To better bleed out the chicken. Relevant threads at permies: http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/8690_18/critter-care/respectful-harvest-of-chickens http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/6498_0/critter-care/bleeding-out-chicken http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/2847_0/critter-care/killing-and-butchering http://www.richsoil.com/raising-chickens.jsp music by Jimmy Pardo https://www.patreon.com/pwvids