Everyone [may] slaughter and his slaughter is valid, except [that of] a deafmute, a simpleton or a minor, so that they will not spoil the slaughter [i.e., make a mistake]. But [if they] all slaughter and others see them, their slaughter is valid. The slaughter of a non-Jew - it is a nevelah and has the uncleanness of carry-on. [If] the slaughterer [slaughters] at night and thereby his slaughter is blind, his slaughter is valid. [If] the slaughterer [slaughters] on Shabbat, or on Yom Kippur - even though he is liable for his soul - his slaughter is valid.
Tosefta Chullin
Everyone is permitted to slaughter [an animal for non-consecrated purposes, see Hul. 1:1], even a Samaritan, even an uncircumcised Israelite, and even an Israelite who changes his belief to idolatry (lit., "worship of the stars"). The slaughter by an idolater, behold, that is invalid, and the slaughter by a monkey, behold, that is invalid, as it is said, "And you shall slaughter…and you shall eat” (Deut. 27:7). Not that "the idolater shall slaughter," and not that "the monkey shall slaughter," and not that the slaughter shall be accidental. An Israelite that [commenced the] slaughter, and an idolater finished the slaughter with his own hands, the slaughter is invalid. If he slaughtered two [simanim, the gullet and the windpipe, see Hul. 2:1], or the majority of two, his slaughter is valid. An idolater that [commenced the] slaughter, and an Israelite finished the slaughter with his own hands, the slaughter is valid. If [the idolater commenced the] slaughter with something that does not render [the slaughter] a tereifa (i.e., prohibited from consumption, see Hul. 3:1), and the Israelite came and finished, it is permitted to eat. An Israelite and an idolater that were holding the knife, and they slaughter -- even [if] one was on top and one was on the bottom (Hul. 2:2) -- their slaughter is valid.
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Tosefta Chullin
And similarly as to a blind person that knows how to slaughter, his slaughter is valid (Hul. 1:1). A minor that knows how to slaughter, his slaughter is valid (ibid.). We can always slaughter, whether during daytime or nighttime, whether on a boat or on top of a roof. We can slaughter with anything (Hul. 1:2), even with a flint, even with glass, even with the point of a reed. We can slaughter with anything, whether with something connected to the ground, or whether disconnected from the ground, whether, the knife is passed on top of the throat, and whether the throat is passed on top of the knife and slaughtered, [and] his slaughter is valid.
