Traffic cone to kill cone

Found these traffic cones in a parking lot one day.  Turned a traffic cone in to a kill cone. Going to try it on the next door or 2.

Put the chicken in the cone and measure by looking through the bottom and making a guess as to where to cut. You need a razor knife to cut the cone with. After cutting put the chicken back in to see if you need to cut some more.

Start with a smaller hole you would normally think to cut.

We did this and we almost cut them too big. Chickens can squeeze through a surprisingly small hole.

I have used this method to butcher chickens and it worked well. As mentioned, you need to make sure to keep the hole small to constrain the chicken.

We never had a need for a kill cone.

We hung the chicken upside down, slit its throat then jerked its shirt off so there was not need to pluck the chicken.

If folks feel the need to use a kill cone there are some threads:

https://permies.com/t/137421/kill-cone-processing-chickens

https://permies.com/t/26843/Killing-Cones-slaughtering-meat-birds