I meant to mention that my friend (with the degree in poultry science) showed us another way to kill chickens. You hold the bird in a way that basically permits you to distend the vertebra in their neck and it severs the spinal cord. They do NOT move much after that! We can’t quite get the hang of it though and I need to get him to show me again HOW he did it.<<<
That sounds like what Mary taught me, it has been a few years, but you take the neck and the head and stretch them out, pull hard and then he just lays there and lets you chop the head off.
Your daughter sounds like a special lady, smart and wise, it is good that she showed the buck who was the alpha of the pack.
They can be dangerous, I don’t think the one that attacked me, was thinking breeding, he had a chain around his neck and I managed to catch it as he came down with his front feet and keep them off the ground, I stood there for what seemed like hours and was at least a half hour, until Bill realized that I had not come back to the house, after going to check them about 10 pm, and came looking for me.
As luck a rancher wanted him to run with his sheep for the summer and kept him, I suspect that he also taught him who the alpha male was, for he was a real old timer.
I love goats and have since I was a small child, so fully understand how your daughter feels about them.
I simply will not cook store bought chickens, for they stink to me.