Baby Chick head trauma/internal bleeding??

[Wyorp Rock]

Said baby chick has passed on on her own a few minutes ago. She seemed to be peaceful in her last minutes. We will be burring them all tonight. Thank you for all your help and recommendations.

I'm so sorry

Up to what age would this method work, easily?

I don't really know since I don't use scissors or clippers like @Redhead Rae does, I use a knife instead, so....for me probably 3-4 weeks. For me, again, it would depend on "size" I suppose. After about 1mo, I would probably switch to cervical dislocation, but she may give you a better idea.

*editing to add, I'm leaving my original post as is, but - I just noticed at the bottom of her article that she mentions best used on chicks younger than 3wks.

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry for your loss.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Because you know it was a cat, I recommend antibiotics. Poultry is particularly susceptible to the germs that cats have on their claws and in their mouth. You've heard of cat scratch fever? It's really a thing. Both tooth and nail on cats is razor sharp and needle thin, burying their germs deeply into the wounds of their prey. It would be difficult to locate punctures from a cat until the infection starts to set in and by then, it's usually too little, too late for poultry.