Performing Humane Euthanasia. PTSD-like symptoms

[BluePolish5]

I have a REALLY HARD time culling any of my birds. I often like to find somebody else to do it for me. It's really helpful if you know someone locally to cull your birds for you. Sometimes, a bird MUST be culled, with nothing that you can do to avoid it. It's worse to keep it alive, than to cull it. Maybe, you can put an ad or post out there locally to find someone to help cull your birds. Even talking to someone at your local feed store to find someone willing to cull your birds might be helpful. Just see it as like a dog or cat that needs to be put down. Just, you're not driving to a vet, but to someone who knows chickens that'll put down your pet chicken, for cheaper than a vet.

I thought about that but I always worried if they would be cruel about it

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

I thought about that but I always worried if they would be cruel about it

With me, it was either I do it, or somebody else does it. Usually I have someone who is experienced. If they have chickens of their own, and they're willing to do it, then they should be pretty experienced. If they're experienced, I doubt that they'd be cruel about it. One of the people that I had doing my birds was the husband of somebody that I knew that knew a lot about chickens, and was trying to breed her own breed. She couldn't cull her own chickens, but her husband was willing. Back when I had Merrick's disease going through one of my flocks, he was doing the bad, hopeless cases.