Sorry, JanRN, when we butcher the fowl on the farm, we call it "dressing" out the birds...wringing the neck or chopping of the head, sometimes shooting it with a 22 rifle...scalding the feathers, so we can take the feathers off, then bring it inside and de-gut it and cut it up to fry or roast. My foster grandparents ran a poultry house in late '30s and could dress out a chicken in record time, and passed the knowledge on to us. So, who do we pass it on it now?? Guess it will a last art.
Machines do it in picking factories where the super market chickens come from.