spooled
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Hello everyone,
I am brand new to this site and rabbit raising as well. A little over a month ago I was given a year old lop buck and a year old NZ black doe that was pregnant and due any day along with 7 kits that were 7 weeks old at the time. I gladly accepted them and commenced to building cages for them. Well, she kindled the next day in a dog crate before I could get the cage finished. She did great! 10 kits of which 2 died 2 days later. Didn't want to keep breeding with the lop, so we dispatched him and am currently looking for a black buck NZ. After looking up humane ways to kill the lop, I decided on the lead pipe to the back of the head method. Although it was instant, I did not like it because you have to hold him upside down by the back feet and he thrashed around really stressing him out. I'm not in the best physical condition, so the broomstick method wouldn't work for me. I have been searching for the best method, and found an interesting way posted by GBov posted back in 2012. She made a box that sat on a table with a kill handle. This looks like the easiest stress free way for the rabbit I have seen. I sent GBov an email asking if she still uses it and how well it works, and it said it was sent, but when I checked in the sent folder it said I was too new to the site, so I'm not sure if it went through or not. Does anybody remember this post and how the invention turned out? I'm going to kill the older kits on thursday and want to do it the best way possible. Any advice would be appreciated.
I am brand new to this site and rabbit raising as well. A little over a month ago I was given a year old lop buck and a year old NZ black doe that was pregnant and due any day along with 7 kits that were 7 weeks old at the time. I gladly accepted them and commenced to building cages for them. Well, she kindled the next day in a dog crate before I could get the cage finished. She did great! 10 kits of which 2 died 2 days later. Didn't want to keep breeding with the lop, so we dispatched him and am currently looking for a black buck NZ. After looking up humane ways to kill the lop, I decided on the lead pipe to the back of the head method. Although it was instant, I did not like it because you have to hold him upside down by the back feet and he thrashed around really stressing him out. I'm not in the best physical condition, so the broomstick method wouldn't work for me. I have been searching for the best method, and found an interesting way posted by GBov posted back in 2012. She made a box that sat on a table with a kill handle. This looks like the easiest stress free way for the rabbit I have seen. I sent GBov an email asking if she still uses it and how well it works, and it said it was sent, but when I checked in the sent folder it said I was too new to the site, so I'm not sure if it went through or not. Does anybody remember this post and how the invention turned out? I'm going to kill the older kits on thursday and want to do it the best way possible. Any advice would be appreciated.
) pic or even better, an actual in-use video? I also can't figure how much strength to use when lowering the bar.
