EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

Wouldn't it take too long for the PVC cutters to actually behead them? As fast as I can cut a pipe, I think even that moment of pain is longer than slitting their throat. Isn't it?

My understanding from the person who said they used them is that it was a single stroke (non-ratcheting). I haven't done my research to find the right one for it yet...
 
BTW, I was rushing around trying to get chicken chores done before dark (and a little tired and frazzled), when I found the baby possum in the CL coop again. This time I managed to catch it (wore big rubber gloves because they were handy and I didn't want to get bit) - not much larger than a big rat, but a lot uglier. I was tired and grumpy, so I just held it by the tail a while (seemed to not do very well with that anyhow), and threw it very very high at great velocity way into the woods in my neighbor's yard - took me two tries, the first time my aim was wrong and it hit a high branch (hard) and fell to the ground in my yard. Got it up and over the second try. I don't know if it would have survived. At the time, I didn't want to mess with actually killing it - not as a soft-hearted thing, more as a I don't want to deal with this right now thing. But just 5 minutes after lobbing it over and getting back to work on my chores I found myself regretting not killing it outright, because if by some miracle it lives, it'll be back to the same coop. I'll just keep checking at dusk, and if he comes back, I'll put him in a bag and bash him.

 
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BTW, I was rushing around trying to get chicken chores done before dark (and a little tired and frazzled), when I found the baby possum in the CL coop again. This time I managed to catch it (wore big rubber gloves because they were handy and I didn't want to get bit) - not much larger than a big rat, but a lot uglier. I was tired and grumpy, so I just held it by the tail a while (seemed to not do very well with that anyhow), and threw it very very high at great velocity way into the woods in my neighbor's yard - took me two tries, the first time my aim was wrong and it hit a high branch (hard) and fell to the ground in my yard. Got it up and over the second try. I don't know if it would have survived. At the time, I didn't want to mess with actually killing it - not as a soft-hearted thing, more as a I don't want to deal with this right now thing. But just 5 minutes after lobbing it over and getting back to work on my chores I found myself regretting not killing it outright, because if by some miracle it lives, it'll be back to the same coop. I'll just keep checking at dusk, and if he comes back, I'll put him in a bag and bash him.
Awww, it's soo cute!
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