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When taking any animal their welfare is paramount and is totally your responsibility, in sickness health and end of life. We may not always make the right choices but having a little guidance certainly helps and this article is helping me right now. Thank you!

There will be some on this site that cannot have access too a vet, and in some cases the last thing a sensitive chicken needs is to be further traumatised by strangers.
Carbon Dioxide Poisoning

Note: if not performed properly, this method can harm you as well. It is important to follow directions.

This method is very relaxing. The chicken will find itself becoming sleepy, fall asleep, but not wake up.

To perform this: Gather a container capable of being sealed properly. Put peroxide or vinegar and baking soda mixed together in the container, and put the chicken inside. Close the lid, and in a few minutes the chicken will have passed. This produces carbon dioxide, which is important to not inhale yourself.

Have you actually tried this yourself?
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We tried the Tylenol and valerian root not once but twice. The 2nd time we tripled the meds. Mortifying!
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I asked my vet, who doesn’t see exotics to humanely euthanize my hen. He did. I think for $50 it’s worth a quiet and gentle ending. Also, I’d like to mention, that if your bird is injured or sick and not able to be very mobile they become susceptible to something worse: infection, wounds, predators, and pathogens. I took my hen to two exotic vets and instead of euthanizing they kept wanting to try pain meds. My ended up the victim of fly strike. She did not deserve this. I failed her. Because she was limping she was literally a sitting target for screw flies, which by the way need to be reported to the usda.
word to the wise, if they’ve stopped laying and have started going down hill, please consider contacting a vet and having them humanely euthanizing them before things get worse. Chickens, especially hybrids, just don’t live all that long.
Not in detail enough to provide clear instruction on the various methods, and some of the methods described are less than ideal ways of killing the bird.
Thank you for sharing
I had no idea there were methods that would be less traumatic for both of us.

Great job
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