but there ain't chance in hell I'm spending $179 to euthanize a chicken.

I grew up in a family in which we provided most of our food ourselves (Three families)... meat, vegetables, fruit, you name it. We had a large walk-in freezer at our shop and every hunting season we stocked it which provided most, not all, the meat we consumed for the following year. Venison, Pheasant, Doves, Quail. We also raised pigs for meat, chickens for meat and eggs, Dairy cows for milk - butter - cream,