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F/K question

v00kimba00v

v00kimba00v

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This may be a stupid question, but it came up and I haven't found the answer yet.

How do you kill a pinky or fuzzy rat to feed F/K?

It occurred to me that it would be alot easier to just fresh kill a fuzzy for my little boa from a current litter that's the right size than to defrost one since he's the only one feeding today. But I'm at a loss how you're suppose to do it. It ended up not being easier since I spent quite a while looking up how to do it and am still no closer to getting him fed. I'm hoping you guys can help me out for next time. For now I'm just going to defrost one and be done with it.
 
Pinkies have quite soft skulls, so a hard flick on the top of the head does the trick. For fuzzies cervical dislocation works, you put a hard edge (the back of a butter knife works) firmly across the back of the neck and give a sharp tug on the base of the tail. Be careful to hold the very base of the tail, otherwise you can skin or deglove the tail and cause unnecessary suffering. For older rats I'd say gassing with CO2 is humane, personally I only bred feeder mice so I would cervically dislocate adults but I believe it would be more difficult with rats
 
Cervical dislocation is near impossible on adult rats, their necks are too muscular. For fuzzies, that should be fine.
 
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