Super Cheap DIY Killing Cone (for poultry)
As it got closer to time for dispatching and butchering our meat flock, I began looking around online for supplies and at killing cones. The best deal I could find at the time still priced out at nearly $20 USD per cone! A little further digging led me to come up with this super cheap cone made from a 5 gallon bucket!
Even though I use power tools in this video, the cone could easily be made with more simple tools.
The two cones were used to process 30+ chickens in one day and worked perfectly fine. We drove some metal T-Post fence poles into the ground, then zip tied these cones to the post. We were completely pleased with these cones and have no improvements or desires to change them in any way.
Super Cheap DIY Killing Cone
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I always thought about just using a road cone if you could find one. Great idea 💡
Funny enough, that was one thing we considered, just didn't have one around. ;)
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Works for me. Perhaps an issue with @dtube when you tried to view it.
It may not be easier to make it yourself but it is always cheaper. You get to use the tools you bought and your wife said you will never use. LOL
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!
Hilarious. The trouble around here is finding a clean bucket! Feels like I'm always picking one up so I can have an extra CLEAN one and that single clean one becomes the one the kid use for mud or worse! Farmlife with kids! ;-)
Don’t have chickens yet, but will consider this concept when I do! Thanks
Timely. We may need to cull one of our layers....checking out the videos:)