Injured Hen, Culled (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

[Smuvers Farm]

Something got to our Brat Pack. Took off with one, we found one with head and neck and feathers, but interior gone, and one severely injured:

Basically, her complete back end had been eaten off, and she was limping, almost a hobble. She was making squeaky noises. We fed her and then I performed a cervical dislocation.

This is my first cull of a full grown chicken (I had to previously euthanize a chick), so I'm a little shaken up... a little teary... but I'm OK.

JSYK... my 8.5 year old PIC was there and witnessed this.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Oh no, I'm so sorry!*hugs*

My guess, Ermine(Weasel?)Or Racoon.What else do you have down there?


So sorry for the loss of your beautiful's, Smuver's Farm

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh my, how terrible Smuv! So sorry this happened. Sorry for your loss!

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Oh no, I'm so sorry!*hugs*

My guess, Ermine(Weasel?)Or Racoon.What else do you have down there?


So sorry for the loss of your beautiful's, Smuver's Farm

Thank you.

We really have NO idea.... we found 2 small bunches of feathers around the coop..... and the eaten chicken(s) inside the coop... it was weird... but we're moving the Brats to the main run today... save the last 4 anyway.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Oh my, how terrible Smuv! So sorry this happened. Sorry for your loss!

Thanks Cappy. Wish we could've eaten her though.... not sure I'd take a chance with how badly she as injured though. Not even sure if I could save the feet for broth.

 

[lomine]

So sorry.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm so sorry. Culling's never fun. Kudos to you for doing what needed to be done to the poor girl.

 

[nminusyplusm]

I'm so sorry this happened to her and you. Thank you for sharing this with us and I hope if and when I'm faced with it too I have the wherewithal to handle it in the same calm and compassionate way that you have.

 

[BantyChooks]

By the way... probably insensitive of me but cervical dislocation would be a popping of the neck from the skull base rather than decapitation farther down. Just a terminology thing. I'll go hide in my corner now.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

I'm so sorry this happened to her and you. Thank you for sharing this with us and I hope if and when I'm faced with it too I have the wherewithal to handle it in the same calm and compassionate way that you have.

Thanks. I hadn't mentally prepared myself yet, but ending the suffering of an animal outweighs any discomfort I am going through. PS. I feel like throwing up.

By the way... probably insensitive of me but cervical dislocation would be a popping of the neck from the skull base rather than decapitation farther down. Just a terminology thing. I'll go hide in my corner now.

Gotcha! Never hide when correcting me. I take all training I can get. This old dog WILL learn new tricks.... with that, all I did was follow a youtube video I saw previously, and this exact thing happened.. and they called it cervical dislocation. I did NOT mean to rip her head off, I swear... but I didn't want her to suffer either.

PS. I REALLY need to throw up.