September Hatch-A-Long!

[chippysmom327]

does anyone remember the recipe for the gas chamber?

I personally think the gas chamber is extremely cruel, but maybe freezing it would be better. The gas chamber hurts them a LOT and they go through an extreme amount of pain in there. In the freezer they kind of just go to sleep from my understanding.

Edit: Nevermind, I just read about the freezer method. It's cruel too. Maybe research the best method for you. But please make it humane.

 

[ShayBaby]

I'm the other way around. I couldn't imagine how awful it would be to freeze to death. But I've put down rats using a "gas chamber" (baking soda and vinegar mix) and wouldn't do it any other way now. They went very peacefully, painlessly, and with me being able to hold and love on them the whole while. (Yes, the gas method in shelters is twisted, painful and wrong. But not so with the home-made, small animal version.) I can't remember the "recipe" off the top of my head, Heidisgran, but you can find one online if you google the gassing method for rats. I'd figure to use probably half of the recipe for bantam chicks and 3/4 or so for LF chicks.

 

[Heidisgran]

I'm the other way around. I couldn't imagine how awful it would be to freeze to death. But I've put down rats using a "gas chamber" (baking soda and vinegar mix) and wouldn't do it any other way now. They went very peacefully, painlessly, and with me being able to hold and love on them the whole while. (Yes, the gas method in shelters is twisted, painful and wrong. But not so with the home-made, small animal version.) I can't remember the "recipe" off the top of my head, Heidisgran, but you can find one online if you google the gassing method for rats. I'd figure to use probably half of the recipe for bantam chicks and 3/4 or so for LF chicks.

Quote: the gas chamber is co2 so the chick would simply go to sleep! never know anything...freezing is cruel and takes longer....think about those people that end their own lives with their car fumes...they just fall asleep! or people that have leaks in their homes and don't know it, they go to bed and die never knowing.

 

[dutchbunny83]

I looked back, I can't figure out where the gas chamber is coming from.

Who is culling chickens and why?

 

[Heidisgran]

I'm sitting here with the little crippled chick...and it got hurt...all on it's first day of life!!

I love my flock and each little one that's come into my life!

I spend a lot of my day, along with my husband, caring for these birds, sitting outside just to watch them, built critter proof coops fenced in several sections of property all to keep them safe as we can...they all get locked in at night...

I'm 50 yrs old and culling this chick is weighing heavy on me...I just never have!! but this one I'm thinking seriously about "helping"...

HUMANE isn't even in the equation! each life I'm responsible for is very important to me and I don't take it lightly!

 

[Heidisgran]

I looked back, I can't figure out where the gas chamber is coming from.

Who is culling chickens and why?

it's me one of my little ones was born crippled...and then got hurt on top of that....there is not hope it will ever walk!

 

[chippysmom327]

the gas chamber is co2 so the chick would simply go to sleep! never know anything...freezing is cruel and takes longer....think about those people that end their own lives with their car fumes...they just fall asleep! or people that have leaks in their homes and don't know it, they go to bed and die never knowing.

Okay. The freezing is cruel. I've heard methods of the gas chamber that actually hurt the chick but co2 isn't bad.

 

[dutchbunny83]

I'm so sorry.

I had never lived on a farm or had chickens or anything and decided one day I wanted them so I ordered 5 day old chicks in November. Got them a coop and all outside, but turned our downstairs bathroom into a brooder because it was pretty cold and they stayed inside for probably 6 weeks. I got super attached to them, they were like family members.

My husband really wanted a RIR, so when ours were about 7 months old I saw a couple at a flock swap that looked healthy and we brought it home. I didn't know anything about quarantine or anything like that. Just introduced them to my girls, they got along great and that was that. My husband deployed to Afghanistan a few days later and about a week after that I noticed some sneezing. Eventually there was runny noses, some bubbly eyes, and stinky face to which I deduced from here the new bird brought in infectious coryza. I tried so hard to get them better to the point of giving them Tylan injections in their breast. I got a lot of pressure on here that not culling them would be irresponsible. I could get the disease on my shoes and track it to other people. All kinds of stuff. So without my husband I had to suck it up and cull them all myself. I did a lot of research on it, and it seemed the best way was to slit their throat because they would bleed out really quickly. I was really scared and apparently didn't cut deep enough on the first, it took her about 5 minutes to die and all I could do was hold her and sing to her. The rest I did properly and it went a lot quicker. But it was very traumatic and even now sitting here thinking back on it I am almost in tears.

So it's never easy, and I am very sorry you have to do this. I've never heard of gassing, that's a new one for me. I definitely wouldn't freeze or wring their neck. Though with it being that small you may be able to snap it's neck and have it die instantly.
I hope it goes smoothly for you!

*hugs*

 

[Heidisgran]

I'm so sorry.

I had never lived on a farm or had chickens or anything and decided one day I wanted them so I ordered 5 day old chicks in November. Got them a coop and all outside, but turned our downstairs bathroom into a brooder because it was pretty cold and they stayed inside for probably 6 weeks. I got super attached to them, they were like family members.

My husband really wanted a RIR, so when ours were about 7 months old I saw a couple at a flock swap that looked healthy and we brought it home. I didn't know anything about quarantine or anything like that. Just introduced them to my girls, they got along great and that was that. My husband deployed to Afghanistan a few days later and about a week after that I noticed some sneezing. Eventually there was runny noses, some bubbly eyes, and stinky face to which I deduced from here the new bird brought in infectious coryza. I tried so hard to get them better to the point of giving them Tylan injections in their breast. I got a lot of pressure on here that not culling them would be irresponsible. I could get the disease on my shoes and track it to other people. All kinds of stuff. So without my husband I had to suck it up and cull them all myself. I did a lot of research on it, and it seemed the best way was to slit their throat because they would bleed out really quickly. I was really scared and apparently didn't cut deep enough on the first, it took her about 5 minutes to die and all I could do was hold her and sing to her. The rest I did properly and it went a lot quicker. But it was very traumatic and even now sitting here thinking back on it I am almost in tears.

So it's never easy, and I am very sorry you have to do this. I've never heard of gassing, that's a new one for me. I definitely wouldn't freeze or wring their neck. Though with it being that small you may be able to snap it's neck and have it die instantly.
I hope it goes smoothly for you!

*hugs*

I've researched and the quickest and least traumatic to me and the baby is the peroxide and baking soda gas...it'll just fall asleep! it needs to be done but I don't know when....maybe not tonight....with all it's ailments it has feisty moments

 

[ShayBaby]

If you do it in an aquarium or other such deep basin, you can hold it still (and talk or sing to it) while it slips off. So sorry you're in this situation.