Had to cull my crippled chick- Vinegar and Baking Soda Method

Had to cull one of my  my two week old chicks.  I got it from the feed store   and it was about two weeks.    It went down on its legs for some reason and  the joints were looking terrible.  Even though  it was still active and eating and drinking-   Didn't want it to suffer having to flop around the rest of its life.   Leg joints were already swelling and getting raw  from crawling around.   I grew  up in the country and  could have broken its neck or cut its head off , but my mother and my kids just couldn't deal with that-  So what I did was modify a method I saw somebody else post on here.    I put it in an ice cream bucket and put a margarine dish in beside it.  I poured some baking soda in the margarine cup and then then poured about half a cup of white vinegar in also.  I immediately closed the lid  when it started bubbling.   It only took a minute and he was gone.     Now I know the little thing won't suffer any more.   I read that this anethitizes them first  and then they stopped breathing.     This worked very well and seemed to be the most humane  and less messy method  .    Just thought I would share that with you guys in case  you have a sick chick.    I just couldn't stand the thought of him going through life hopping around in the dirt and mud   and  being miserable.

I think Co2  , but not sure.  The thread I got this off of  made a chamber and put the chick and and mixed the vinegar and baking soda and ran a hose into it.   But seemed kinda complicated so I just used the ice cream  bucket and the margarine cup.   It went really fast and just looked like it was sleeping when i opened the  lid.     I've been putting off culling it .  I had given it vitamins and some more stuff I've seen recommended on here but it had no effect.      It's leg joints were getting so swollen and raw that I was afraid later on it would be in even more misery.

I just poured enough soda to cover the bottom of the margarine dish and then i just poured in vinegar- About half a cup .    I had a margarind cup inside a gallon  ice cream bucket.  As soon as it starting fizzing I put the lid back on the ice cream bucket.   The chick was in the ice cream bucket beside the  margarine cup.  So  he didn't get wet or anything  .  Guess the  gas produced just filled the ice cream bucket and   Put him to sleep.   I thought this might be a little  easier on the chick than the  freezer method.  I dont think the fumes are very harmful for people , unless you were in an airtight place and that's the only thing you could breathe.  It's the same principle as those volcanoes that we used to make at school.

Don't think  it would hurt  humans in normal situations.   If the fumes were that dangerous,  they wouldn't let the kids make those volcanoes.    But the vinegar does stink , but it wasn't that bad.