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Just wondering how everyone goes about prekilling? Right now i do the whole grab the rat by the tail and break its neck by hitting it on the corner of a table...sometimes i miss with the smaller rats and it....well it gets a bit messy... any input is appreciated.
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I use CO2 for larger batches of prekilled or any heading for the freezer. I use a TRex snap trap for just one or two. Any snap trap would work well though. Usually the domesticated rodents are so curious they walk right in to them without bait.
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

you could hit them on the floor.. lol

ive always wondered about this. Do people that pre kill there rats on a table corner or floor, not just end up with blood everywhere?
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Dave

15.24 brbs
4.8 crbs
Im an aussie in an arctic environment
Helsinki, Finland

That is exactly what happened the one time I tried it. Furthermore, unless you are an expert from the get go, it is usually a very inhuman death for the rodent to be bashed repeatedly against a table or floor. My rodent colony is almost as much of a pet to me as my BPs and I wouldn't want to see them suffer like that.
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

Dave,
i have few balls that take PK...what i do for those that do take it....is i double bag a supermarket bag place the rat in the bag....face a clear open wall....swing my arm lightly back and forth.....and on about the third swing i follow through on the swing directly to the wall with a hard direct hit....the rats die instantly. ....sometimes there's blood sometimes there's not....depends what part of their body hits the wall.

Pitoon

>>ive always wondered about this. Do people that pre kill there rats on a table corner or floor, not just end up with blood everywhere?
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>>Dave
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>>15.24 brbs
>>4.8 crbs
>>Im an aussie in an arctic environment
>>Helsinki, Finland
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If you are going to use the neck break, taking a dowel and putting it behind their skull...then pressing down really hard, works really well. No chance of missing.
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