Injured Hen, Culled (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

[Smuvers Farm]

Pretty common to see it called CD, if I can guess right from the rake nearby you put her head under & pulled? That can perform CD if you set it just right, but if it isn't it just takes the head off. Both ways (CD & decapitation) are a really quick lights out for the birdy, so don't worry.

If you hadn't taken the head off, I don't think it would have worked. When the pressure is that far down there's no joint to dislocate, and if you do manage to break just the neck it's a much slower death for the bird. I've spent way more hours researching this than any normal person.. lol. I needed to be 100% sure of method before I tried it on any of mine.

Go vomit if you need to, just not all over me.

Between you and Henny, someone is getting out the mop to clean up!

 

[JasperMoon]

Time for obtuse ness..... what the heck should I do with the chicken bodies now???

This may sound harsh, but I'd use it as bait, or just burry it

 

[BantyChooks]

Between you and Henny, someone is getting out the mop to clean up!

Nope, nope, nope!

I nominate 21hens to be the cleaner upper.

 

[pennyJo1960]

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:

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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.

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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.

Your child at 8.5 is probably better at than you horrible to say know I handled more back then wasn't as connected .. Damn I am sorry awful any way you had to deal with it.. get a trap please often if you do not own one humane society will loan or rent them
do not allow for others to go

 

[21hens-incharge]

I have a mop on hand. Just changed the water too.
Pine Sol or Mr. Clean?

 

[BantyChooks]

I have a mop on hand. Just changed the water too.
Pine Sol or Mr. Clean?

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Your child at 8.5 is probably better at than you horrible to say know I handled more back then wasn't as connected .. Damn I am sorry awful any way you had to deal with it.. get a trap please often if you do not own one humane society will loan or rent them
do not allow for others to go

Oh yeah, he's totally OK. The twitching afterwards was weird for him... but he came inside and had a peanut butter sammie and finished his school work... so he's fine. He was more worried about me when I started crying.....

 

[orrpeople]

Time for obtuse ness..... what the heck should I do with the chicken bodies now???

We bury ours - ones we don't process anyway - fairly deep to keep other night prowlers from digging them up. Although, our ground is never frozen solid like a lot of folks this time of year...I'd almost be tempted (if it was cheap or free ) to send it in for a complete necropsy - kind of an "I know, I know, it was killed by a predator... but does everything else look okay???" But, I like to know all kinds of things. ..Just me.

 

[Runt of the Flock]

u could burn them, bury them, but i have a place far from my coop and out in the woods where i pile up bodies. sometimes a coon will drag the body away from the pile [not very far] but most of the time they are left alone to rot and be eaten by the bugs.

 

[orrpeople]

Oh yeah, he's totally OK. The twitching afterwards was weird for him... but he came inside and had a peanut butter sammie and finished his school work... so he's fine. He was more worried about me when I started crying.....

Aww... Good boy!!