Hands on hatching and help

[Renee97038]

What is the most humane way to dispatch a 1day old chick with very obvious defects?

 

[Pyxis]

What is the most humane way to dispatch a 1day old chick with very obvious defects?

It might sound unpleasant but if you take a pair of shears and quickly cut its head off it won't even know what happened and it'll be over quick.

If that's too much for you, you can euthanize it by soaking a rag with starter fluid and putting the chick and the rag in a small container.

 

[oregonkat]

What is the most humane way to dispatch a 1day old chick with very obvious defects?

If you go to the Chicken Chick website (how to euthanize a chick) she has a method using cider vinegar and baking soda (remember the volcano you made in school) the carbon dioxide that is given off in the reaction will kill the chick if you put it in a container along with your mixture and close the lid. Sorry you have to deal with this.

 

[Pyxis]

If you go to the Chicken Chick website (how to euthanize a chick) she has a method using cider vinegar and baking soda (remember the volcano you made in school) the carbon dioxide that is given off in the reaction will kill the chick if you put it in a container along with your mixture and close the lid.  Sorry you have to deal with this.

That is a very, very unpleasant way to kill a chick. It kills them with carbon dioxide poisoning, so the chick can sense that it's not getting oxygen, like you would, and panics as it asphyxiates to death. Plus, it is actually painful.

The starter fluid method just puts the chick to sleep and then it dies peacefully without feeling any pain, suffocation, etc.

 

[WVduckchick]

For very young chicks, I cover the chick with a couple of paper towels and use a thick, sharp knife to the neck. I actually hit the knife with a hammer, just to make sure I get all the way through cleanly and quickly.

 

[oregonkat]

That is a very, very unpleasant way to kill a chick. It kills them with carbon dioxide poisoning, so the chick can sense that it's not getting oxygen, like you would, and panics as it asphyxiates to death. Plus, it is actually painful.

The starter fluid method just puts the chick to sleep and then it dies peacefully without feeling any pain, suffocation, etc.

Sorry, this was not on the Chicken Chick website but on the waldeneffect.org site. Having never had to do this I read it as being humane, and you are right, I did not put it in context of it being me being asphyxiated. Awful. Thanks for putting me straight.

 

[rossfam06]

So I had one of my bator over heat and now I had to move it to my hatcher!!! ( thank goodness it was not being yet!) I have to lock down in 3 days!!!! What should I do??!!

 

[WVduckchick]

So I had one of my bator over heat and now I had to move it to my hatcher!!! ( thank goodness it was not being yet!) I have to lock down in 3 days!!!! What should I do??!!

Are you saying you need to use the hatcher for other eggs in 3 more days, but the one that is in the hatcher now isn't ready yet?

When you move the set to the hatcher, move that single one back to where the others were.

Or am I more confused than you are??

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I'm totally confused.

 

[PD-Riverman]

I'm totally confused.

I am not confused----I read it like its typed---"ITS" confusing not me.