Injured Hen, Culled (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

[Redhead Rae]

WHAT is the maggot bucket Rae?!?

You take a bucket with a lid, drill holes (1/2" or so) along the sides and bottom. Throw meat scraps, dead animals, guts in there during warm weather. Flies will come, lay eggs and the maggots will hatch, eat the meat/animals/guts and drop out of the bottom to become chicken food. If I remember correctly, you get more protein for your birds this way than you do if you were to feed the meat to them straight.

 

[orrpeople]

You take a bucket with a lid, drill holes (1/2" or so) along the sides and bottom. Throw meat scraps, dead animals, guts in there during warm weather. Flies will come, lay eggs and the maggots will hatch, eat the meat/animals/guts and drop out of the bottom to become chicken food. If I remember correctly, you get more protein for your birds this way than you do if you were to feed the meat to them straight.

Innnteresting...

 

[MrsMistyReal]

This is what happened OMG so sorry

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.[/QUOTE

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.

OMG this is what happened so sorry Smurvers once again, heart breaking. How are you feeling now? I'm here if you need some cheering up

 

[Smuvers Farm]

You take a bucket with a lid, drill holes (1/2" or so) along the sides and bottom. Throw meat scraps, dead animals, guts in there during warm weather. Flies will come, lay eggs and the maggots will hatch, eat the meat/animals/guts and drop out of the bottom to become chicken food. If I remember correctly, you get more protein for your birds this way than you do if you were to feed the meat to them straight.

SMH I can't believe I'm gonna take this further... ok SO

Do you hang it up? Where do you put it to avoid the smell? Wanna post a pic?!?

 

[BantyChooks]

You take a bucket with a lid, drill holes (1/2" or so) along the sides and bottom. Throw meat scraps, dead animals, guts in there during warm weather. Flies will come, lay eggs and the maggots will hatch, eat the meat/animals/guts and drop out of the bottom to become chicken food. If I remember correctly, you get more protein for your birds this way than you do if you were to feed the meat to them straight.

 

[bobbi-j]

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.

You did a good thing, ending her suffering as quickly as possible.

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

Plant them, use them for bait, dump them in your trees if you have a grove... There are a lot of ways to get rid of chicken bodies.

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.....

Kids are resilient like that.

 

[Redhead Rae]

SMH I can't believe I'm gonna take this further... ok SO

Do you hang it up? Where do you put it to avoid the smell? Wanna post a pic?!?

Yes, sorry, you hang it from a tripod or I use a shepherds hook for hanging plants. It needs to be far enough off the ground that chickens can walk underneath it. Honestly, unless you stick your head right in the bucket, it generally doesn't stink, or not for long. It is more likely to stink in cooler weather (not below freezing though) than hot summer temps. Our bucket is in this picture in the upper right corner. It's yellow.

 

[staceyj]

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.

Oh my god! I am so so very sorry!

Poor PIC!

What type of predator do you think came in the daylight and did this, a hawk? A fox? I see fox here in the daytime often. Just prowling down neighborhood streets like a wayward dog.

 

[Molpet]

oh wow so sorry !
I use long handle loppers , mine are made for game processing, but anvil tree loppers will work to 'do the deed'
I would use the body for bait.

 

[MzGina]

so sorry