Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Dead chicken squawking

 

<Leafcutter ruminations>

If you couldn't get through the post about killing, plucking, and gutting chickens without getting queasy, I recommend you skip this video.

However, if you liked that post and want more, click play.

Background: When I gut chickens, I take out the crop and the tubes (trachea, oesophagus) as a last step. Not sure if that's the proper technique, but it works for me. On this day, I found out, quite by accident, that if you have your hand inside of a gutted chicken just right, forcing air through the intact trachea will still illicit a squawk.

At first it freaked me out a little, but very quickly all the kids gathered around (you can hear one laughing in the background) and were quite entertained.













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