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pitbullmomma said:
hi guys. been quiet, had a pretty awful experience day before yesterday.

my sweet, happy, talky little mille fleur, "mini fleuf" died. she was one of my favorite chickens. i don't know what happened. she started out of nowhere having these seizures, couldn't walk, was open mouth breathing, panting, flapping her wings, flipping over.

i didn't know what to do. even though i'm a vet i don't have euthanasia solution any more (ddn't keep up my cds license, it's like 500 bucks a year), and didn't know if i could wring her neck. i was bawling my eyes out and called smuv. i knew i had to end her suffering , but needed someone to tell me it was ok and that I could do it.

except....it didn't work so well. i thought i knew how to do it (pull the head and twist). we had a chicken lab in vet school a million years ago and that's how the guy did it. it took me like 4 times. she would not die. it was the most horrible, heartbreaking thing i have ever had to do. i was screaming and crying and in hysterics. it was frigging awful.

i have euthanized many, many animals, including two of my own beloved dogs, and it was never like this. i feel like i have ptsd, i keep seeing it over and over in my mind's eye.

i googled a bunch of youtube videos after that but haven't found one that was decent, if anyone knows one that is good please point me in the right direction. i don't know that i can ever do that again. it probably would have been better had i just cut her head off. quicker and more painless.

next time i will go to the vet's and have them give an injection, for sure. i cannot go through that again.i know some people will be like "that's just a chicken, get over it, what kind of farm girl are you" but she was my little baby.

thank you so much for all the kind words and well wshes, and to my sweet smuvs for helping me through that. and smuvs, i'm sorry you had to go through that with your chicken.

you guys are the best people in the world, here.

XO,

cindi
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So sorry that happened with your chicken! I generally hold the chickens wings to the body while hubby uses a hatchet. Do you have a helper? :hugs
 
Smuvers Farm said:
Everyone almost in bed?!?!

Just wanted to post so that all y'all will be jelly h8terz when you get up in the morning.....cause......



























........we are sleeping tonight with the bedroom windows open!

Mua ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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:tongue Meanwhile, I still have snow drifts up to my waist.
pitbullmomma said:
hi guys. been quiet, had a pretty awful experience day before yesterday.

my sweet, happy, talky little mille fleur, "mini fleuf" died. she was one of my favorite chickens. i don't know what happened. she started out of nowhere having these seizures, couldn't walk, was open mouth breathing, panting, flapping her wings, flipping over.

i didn't know what to do. even though i'm a vet i don't have euthanasia solution any more (ddn't keep up my cds license, it's like 500 bucks a year), and didn't know if i could wring her neck. i was bawling my eyes out and called smuv. i knew i had to end her suffering , but needed someone to tell me it was ok and that I could do it.

except....it didn't work so well. i thought i knew how to do it (pull the head and twist). we had a chicken lab in vet school a million years ago and that's how the guy did it. it took me like 4 times. she would not die. it was the most horrible, heartbreaking thing i have ever had to do. i was screaming and crying and in hysterics. it was frigging awful.

i have euthanized many, many animals, including two of my own beloved dogs, and it was never like this. i feel like i have ptsd, i keep seeing it over and over in my mind's eye.

i googled a bunch of youtube videos after that but haven't found one that was decent, if anyone knows one that is good please point me in the right direction. i don't know that i can ever do that again. it probably would have been better had i just cut her head off. quicker and more painless.

next time i will go to the vet's and have them give an injection, for sure. i cannot go through that again.i know some people will be like "that's just a chicken, get over it, what kind of farm girl are you" but she was my little baby.

thank you so much for all the kind words and well wshes, and to my sweet smuvs for helping me through that. and smuvs, i'm sorry you had to go through that with your chicken.

you guys are the best people in the world, here.

XO,

cindi
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I am so SO sorry. :hugs :hugs I'll look for the video I found of a fast way to do it. :hugs

Nobody's going to call you a wuss. These birds really are special. I myself have a spoiled bantam that my stomach turns to a snowball at the thought of maybe having to euthanise some day.
 
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Wow. What a night you guys had!

I think I'm gonna get a white board, to keep track of everybody and what's going on.
First thing I should write is:
@MrsMistyReal
Haunted hospital horrors
Sick DH
Real nice gal
Sqatchter


@MrsMistyReal, let's hope those antibiotics kick in fast and knock out hubby's pneumonia so you and your family can get home. This time of year a hospital, clinic, or doctors office are the most dangerous places to be.
 
These are the best pieces I have ever seen on the subject. I have used cervical dislocation as positioned in the first link probably about... four or five times? Don't really remember and I sure don't try to. I have also decapitated with non-ratcheting pipe cutters; I recommend that for food animals or roosters.
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2017/02/how-to-humanely-euthanize-chicken-by-dr.html

This link is quite in-depth and ought to be required reading for everyone.
http://www.poultryindustrycouncil.c...delines-for-On-Farm-Euthanasia-of-Poultry.pdf

Videos:
#8
There was another good one but I can't find it. This isn't the grip I use but as you can see it works too. The reason I use the one that I do is because I hold the chicken's body in a regular cradle hold, so when I yank the neck I don't have to move my arm so far out. The whole thing happens in my strongest range of motion.
 
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staceyj said:
Wow. What a night you guys had!

I think I'm gonna get a white board, to keep track of everybody and what's going on.
First thing I should write is:
@MrsMistyReal
Haunted hospital horrors
Sick DH
Real nice gal
Sqatchter


@MrsMistyReal, let's hope those antibiotics kick in fast and knock out hubby's pneumonia so you and your family can get home. This time of year a hospital, clinic, or doctors office are the most dangerous places to be.
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Thank you I hope so to :love
 

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