What do you do with deformed Guineas?

[Darkjeweler]

I have a couple of keets that just hatched with serious leg issues (can't walk due to deformed legs. What do you do when this happens? Dispatch them? If so, what is the best method? If you don't feel like posting for all to see, just PM me.

Mike-

 

[PeepsCA]

There are may ways to do this horrible deed... but the best way for one person may not apply to the next, So the "best way" IMO is the quickest and most painless way for the keet, that you can handle.

I recently read a long post about different methods of home processing quail... the method used for killing was to quickly and firmly smack their head on hard surface to stun them, then quickly snip the head off with a pair of sharp kitchen scissors/shears. It's morbid, but effective and quick.

 

[Darkjeweler]

You would think that whacking their head would be enough. No?

 

[KrisH]

You would think that whacking their head would be enough. No?

just whacking their head may not kill, but only stun them. you would not want them to wake up later. I would rather err on the side of caution in this case.

RobertH

 

[AmyLM]

if its spraddle leg then they can be fixed.

But if they have actually deformed legs then its best to put them down. The way that I had to do it was I took a pair of kitchen sheers (the big heavy type) and held the chick over a garbage bag and snipped hard and too the head off in one snip.... and didn't look. Wrapped the chickes up in the bag and tried not to think about it. Its sad but sometimes necessary. I got a chick that had a serious issue with her crop, NOTHING would pass through the crop and she was starving to death... after trying everything I did the only thing I could do.

 

[PeepsCA]

Quote: I agree, it may not kill it, then it feels pain before it finally dies on it's own from the head trauma... maybe 2 hard quick whacks just to make sure, if you'd rather not snip. Yuck either way, I hate this part of keeping/raising poultry