Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 1:20pm (EDT-1) (Swingman) doth sayeth
snip Way too much trouble ... wait til dark,snip

Nah, especially if you want chicken for today's supper. A chicken
will let you get to about 2-3 feet before they start getting real antsy.
Walk slow, use a piece of wire about 3 foot long, and real easy to hook
one around a leg. Then no prob to grab it up. You can do the stump and
hatchet route, or just grab 'em by the neck and crank. Chicken &
dumplin's for supper. Mmmm mmmm good. I can remember gatherings at my
greadgrandparents where we have maybe a dozen chickens caught that way,
then an assembly line plucking and cleaning them.

Of course, if you want to be sporting about it you could always
bait a hook with a bit of corn or something, and use a rod nd reel.
That's usually best if you're poaching a neighbor's chickens tho - they
don't squawk with their neck stretched out. LOL I heard of a guy who
would do that out of his basement window, with chickens in his yard from
next door. The neighbor never did figure out what was happening with
his chickens.



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