![]() ![]() Bonking is still my backup plan should the broomstick method fail. BROOMSTICK METHOD CHICKEN HOW TOI would direct you to learn how to bonk the rabbit by hitting them with something in the back of the head. If you have trouble with balance, or cannot bend, then this method may not work for you. You can then continue to process as normal. You can then hang the rabbit, remove the head, and let it bleed out. The step and pull should take less than a second to complete. You can practice on a stuffed toy until you can do this step smoothly. This sounds complicated and it takes some practice to get it done smoothly. There will be some reflexive kicks and jerking, but the rabbit is dead. With the neck pinned down, pulling up on the rear legs will dislocate the neck, stunning/killing the rabbit at that moment. As you do this, pull up on the rabbits rear legs. Grabbing the rabbits rear legs, straighten up and place your other foot on the stick on the other side of the rabbit. Be sure rabbits head stays straight and does not twist sideways. Step on the stick to one side of the rabbit, this should pin the rabbits head and neck to the floor. I usually kneel down to setup the rabbit and stick position. The stick should extend at least 12 inches on each side of the rabbit. Try to keep the rabbit head in a straight line, its jaw flat on the ground. Put the stick right behind the head in the hollow of the neck. The rabbit doesn't know what the stick is for and usually doesn't get nervous. I gently place the stick behind the rabbit head across the neck. Then I put the rabbit down on the floor and give it a moment to calm down. I thank the Lord and the rabbit for the food they provide. ![]() I like to have classical music playing while I process rabbits. I do not attempt on soft ground or on a lawn. Hard concrete floor seems to work best, although I've also done this on the kitchen floor. I take the rabbit to be killed to a flat area. I have metal rod that is about half an inch in diameter that I use a lot. A broom handle, mop handle, or other STRONG dowel is used to facilitate cervical dislocation. The broomstick method has become my preferred method to dispatch a rabbit. Yes, I've smacked my fingers before with this method too. The violence in striking the rabbit annoys me. The act of bonking raises my anxiety level and I don't like it. You hold the ears and strike behind the ears.īonking is my second choice. As a friend of mind once said, if you hit the rabbit on the back of the head and blood comes out the nose, that's a good hit. Hit hard enough and the subject goes unconscious and often dies from the trauma. Actually, this blunt force trauma (bonking the back of the head behind the ears) is similar to what happens to us when we fall backwards and hit the back of our head on concrete. You stun them by hitting them in the head with a pipe or hardwood stick. I don't have the hand strength to kill rabbit with my hands by cervical dislocation, also known as "twist and crunch." So the "rabbit punch" or "bonking" to the back of the rabbit skull with a hardwood dowel or round metal bar became my method of choice. My nervous hands are still attached to me. My sons join 4H and start raising meat rabbits to compete in meat pens for auction at the fair. I no longer use this method, although I could if I had to.įast forward to 2000. Butchering for halel (muslim tradition) involves cutting the throat. Note: At this time, 2008 in USA, cutting the throat is not considered humane as it causes pain. The thing I did not like about it was the presence of sharp knives in nervous hands, namely - my hands! It worked fine and in the hundreds of rabbits we processed only one of them ever screamed and that was while we carried the rabbit to the killing area we had prepared. We usually held the rabbits head with one hand and used the other hand to hold the knife. I was taught to use sharp knives, hang the rabbit by the feet in rope loops, slit the throat and bleed it out. That's where I learned to process rabbits for the kitchen. We had pigs, goats, turkeys, chickens, and rabbits. As part of our "Appropriate Technology" education, we learned to raise organic vegetables and to raise animals for our camp kitchen. Over 20 years ago, I worked for the California Conservation Corps, back in the days of Gov. "Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits" a book by Bob BennettĪrticles on butchering and euthanasia can found at "Raising Rabbits the Modern Way" a book by Bob Bennett There are good descriptions for processing in many publications. *Warning: This message contains graphic language which may upset sensitive persons.* Broomstick Method and other ways to.you know ![]()
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