How to humanely and quickly cull a chick???

[SSStewart]

she has cross beak and it's gotten worse and now she can't eat.

 

[NestingMillenial]

I don't have a super long chicken experience, but unfortunately one was sick and I have had to research that question early on: short answer is swift decapitation. If that's a chick, probably a large chef knife would work.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-do-you-cull-chickens.1553562/post-26292770 -> here is the link to a thread discussing just that and my answer, with sources

 

[nuthatched]

I personally use this method.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...re-culling-the-injured-and-sick-babies.72140/