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[Jessimom]

underneath,she hides them every time she gets off

She buries the eggs under the straw?

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Thank you!!  I've been youtubing draining videos.  I was going to have a late breakfast, but I'm no longer hungry...lol.  I will need to go to the pet store and hope they sell syringes.  

I watched one video that said not to drain all fluid in 1 sitting if there is a lot of it, because it can cause the chicken to go into shock?  Is that valid?

Again, thank you!!!

Tractor supply or feed store should have syringes available if the pet store doesn't have any.

 

[Jessimom]

If you take a sickle and put a longer handle on it then it becomes a scythe. That's how it works in my mind anyway.

I thought the same thing....short handle Sickle, Long handle Scythe...

 

[country lovin]

Ok, I have a 7 year old hen.  She hasn't layed an egg in ages.  Her back end is so swollen (fluid), she waddles around.  She can no longer jump up on the roost.

She has had a swollen bottom for 4 or 5 months, but in the last week it's gotten much worse.  .She is eating and drinking, but she is very uncomfortable.  

I think she will not last much longer, but I can't just watch her suffer.  I am unable to snap her neck, or cut off her head.  What is the LEAST traumatic way to put a chicken out of it's misery (when you have NO intention of eating it)?

my cousin does the co2 method and just puts the bag over the head.

 

[kwhites634]

If you take a sickle and put a longer handle on it then it becomes a scythe. That's how it works in my mind anyway.

Not quite. A scythe blade is straighter and a whole lot longer. Old-time farmers used them to cut their wheat fields

 

[Jessimom]

Tractor supply or feed store should have syringes available if the pet store doesn't have any.

Our local feed store was sold, and they are more of a pet store now, but still have a section that is more like a feed store. I'll try there first, and head further afield if I can't find one there.

 

[Chaos18]

That's a sickle. A scythe is a long-handled, two handed man killer!

Well I've got one of each.........actually I've got lots of sickles I could make scythes out of.

If you take a sickle and put a longer handle on it then it becomes a scythe. That's how it works in my mind anyway.

Mine too.

 

[kwhites634]

I thought the same thing....short handle Sickle, Long handle Scythe...

That's a bit different design than the one I had. Mine had two shorter handles off the main shaft, similar to some modern weed whackers

 

[Chaos18]

 

[NaJoBeLe]

That's a bit different design than the one I had. Mine had two shorter handles of the main shaft, similar to some modern weed whackers

So you had a fancy one.