Let your partner hold the chicken's legs and hold the head (toward the mouth) of the chicken with one hand and gently cut the pointed tip of the chicken's beak using the hot knife. Release the bird afterwards.

How Debeaking is being performed?

Beak trimming can be conducted on the rearing farm, usually when birds are between 5 and 10days of age, using a hot-blade (HB) technique where a heated guillotine blade (approximately 700°C) cuts and cauterizes the beak tissue.

What is debeaking and why is it done?

Beak trimming is the partial removal of the tip of the beak, and results in a beak that is blunt or rounded at the end. It is one of the most common methods utilised by the poultry industry (mainly the egg and turkey industries) to control the impacts of severe feather pecking.