ButtonsPalace
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So in my house has been an ongoing talk about how we plan to kill and butcher our rabbits. At first we were gonna have a friend do it, but he has issues with chronic pain, so that was a no go obviously. Then we found someone who was willing to buy them do all the work and make rabbit sausages out of them. Well I want to keep the bones,organs, skin, and ears for other uses and it would be such a pain to transport them all there then have to transport all of the other stuff back. Plus what a stressful trip for the buns D: . So then I said I'd do it. *You must understand I am an animal lover and I'm mostly doing this because of the homestead but I'm also doing it because what if one day there aren't any more grocery stores?* Plus eventually I might do our meat roosters too. So the idea was brought up of dry ice. Put them all in a big plastic tote with the lid cracked open, and put some dry ice in a pillowcase *so they don't touch it and hurt themselves* But I don't know where to get dry ice *Probably somewhere really obvious like the grocery store, I've never needed dry ice so I've never bought it* Well then someone brought up stunning. Apparently using baking soda and vinegar basically fills the air with O2 or CO2 *I was in the middle of cutting hair so I was half paying attention*. And the mix over-oxygenates, causes a high and then they slip away, I think this would be much easier than struggling with a hopper popper *Although if this don't work it'll be what I use.* But after letting them sit for about 20 min in the vinegar/baking soda air in the tote they are gone and you bleed them. Sounds like a good idea... But I was wondering if anyone else has tried it and what their experiences were with it.