Cull A Chicken
Occasionally hens will develop bad habits such as egg eating.
Cull a chicken. Hold her by her feet as you lower her in. It involves a small quantity about a tablespoon of blood. Once you feel that shes all the way in the cone let go of her feet.
Some chickens are hatched weaker than the rest of the flock. Its quick and painless but can be distressing for the person doing it. This involves putting the chick into an airtight container with starter fluid dropped onto an absorbent pad next to it.
To begin with the process of culling helps you get rid of diseased or injured chickens. The chickens head will come out through the hole in the kill cone. Each person has to make this after assessing the individual demands and drawbacks of keeping the hen alive.
Sometimes the right time to cull a chicken decision is made for us and we need to end the suffering. You may find your hen near death and suffering. When it comes to something like egg eating the offending hen will eat multiple eggs a day and its difficult to break this habit.
Because chickens molt in fall thats also when slow molting chickens can be identified and culled. Euthanising or killing a chicken is one of the less attractive aspects of keeping chickens and of course a vet can do this for you but it is sometimes necessary for us to kill a chicken at home. During molting chickens stop or significantly slow down egg production and a chicken can take from two to six months to molt.
Culling increases chicken feed and water space for other chickens. Also culling increases egg per hen ratio including the average growth rate per bird. How to cull a chicken when its time to cull a chicken youll start by putting the chicken in the cone head first.
Egg eating is an especially difficult habit to break and it is something many chicken keepers will cull a bird for. This in turn reduces the risk of other chickens contracting the disease from the sick birds. This egg production slowdown occurs because it takes the same nutrients to make eggs that it does to grow feathers.
Chick culling or unwanted chick killing is the process of separating and disposing of unwanted male and unhealthy female chicks for which the intensive animal farming industry has no use. It occurs in all industrialised egg production whether free range organic or battery cage.