Benadryl to Euthanize Chicken?

[hayley3]

It usually takes between 1½ - 3 minutes for a chicken to bleed out. So it's not exactly that long.
Cervical Dislocation method/broomstick method does take alittle practice. I've messed up on it a couple times in the past, but now have mastered it.

I'd like to know what you learned from messing up. I know this is an older post but hoping you are still around. I saw the broomstick method on youtube but I'm afraid I will mess it up.

 

[Anon112]

I'd like to know what you learned from messing up. I know this is an older post but hoping you are still around. I saw the broomstick method on youtube but I'm afraid I will mess it up.

Please read this article: https://the-chicken-chick.com/how-to-humanely-euthanize-chicken-by-dr/

Like the article says, the goal is to make the chicken unconscious as fast as possible. Mess ups have to do with something that prolongs the time it takes for the chicken to become unconscious.

I can't speak to the broomstick method, but something I learned from recently euthanizing a chicken with decapitation (with an axe) was to swing like I meant it the first time, but to immediately get ready for a second swing if the first didn't work.

I would imagine with the broomstick method that the main mistake would be not pulling hard enough.

Do you have someone who can help you?