From CP via CTV.ca:

The Thetford Chicken Massacre, with its hatchets, booze and bloody headless fowl, has ruffled the feathers of animal welfare activists.

Animal rights groups are condemning the summer ritual, where partygoers lop the heads off chickens and turkeys, toss the birds in the air and wager on where their convulsing bodies will come to a dead stop (pun intended? - BD).

Participants close out the annual rural Quebec celebration with fireworks and a poultry feast on the grill.