THE best way to kill a chicken was troubling most of the increasingly hungry castaways - including Kearsley's Erica Hurst - last night.

The group's food is running low and two chickens, which have proved disappointing egg-layers, are destined to be roasted over the Great Barrier Island camp fire.

However, retired sergeant major Ken does not fancy the job of slaughtering them while Hassan says he will not eat them because they would not be halal.

So, as the group pondered the easiest way to humanely kill the hens, Erica mused: "I thought it was just an axe to the head. That's what I've seen on TV . . . or cartoons."

Meanwhile, the group was trying to make the food last by taking part in a voluntary fast.

But Erica sounded non-too committed: "We shouldn't aim for doing it the whole day, just aim for as long as we can."

The 22-year-old is still missing Joe, who is in enforced segregation with Clare. "I have a little bond with him," she reminded BBC3 viewers.

Joe, meanwhile, was more concerned with planning a night-time raid on the main camp's dwindling food supplies.

"What am I going to do when I get back," he told Clare, "I'm going to tell Erica to leave me alone in a nice way."