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I maintain a small mice colony just to have a source of live pinkies and fuzzies when I need them. It's starting to get to the point where I'm culling adults, and I hate, hate, hate cervical dislocation. Would placing a small bit of dry ice in a rubbermaid, and letting it dissolve (or splashing it with a bit of water to speed it along) be an effective and relatively humane way to euthanize the adults I don't need?

Thanks

i have used this method before when i bought out a local breeder but at that point i had no interest in breeding. so i had to cull off an entire colony. i took a small bucket of dryice and placed it in a larger bucket. i then added the mice into the larger bucket. i added water but i dont recommend it. the mice get wet and then stick together after you freeze them.
c02(the gas dry ice puts off) is heavier than air so i would get a bucket or even a soup can and drill holes in it and suspend it above a screen that covers a larger bucket holding mice. it should take less than a minute. make sure their is a screen keeping the mice in the bucket the will start to freak out and jump like crazy.
adam jeffery
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>>I maintain a small mice colony just to have a source of live pinkies and fuzzies when I need them. It's starting to get to the point where I'm culling adults, and I hate, hate, hate cervical dislocation. Would placing a small bit of dry ice in a rubbermaid, and letting it dissolve (or splashing it with a bit of water to speed it along) be an effective and relatively humane way to euthanize the adults I don't need?
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>>Thanks

You can get a 20lb bottle of CO2 and some hose for P bucks or so.

I built a chamber with an old latchable sweater box. I also aquired a regulator to fill the chamber. After 5 minutes all will be dead.

20 lbs lasts me a few months.

You can get smaller bottles for paintball guns cheaper, but I use min for 40 or so animals a week.
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Jeremy Payne
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