everytime I tried that they were too quick and pulled out from under the pencil before I pressed down hard enough to pin them. That's why I like the scissors or pliers, they can't get out from under that. Those little bastards are quick! I could do the sparrows with my thumbnail, but when a rodent feels theatened I aint' gettin my fingers that close to their face, they're too good at wriggling around fast enough to get that bite in so that you don't even see it happen.
[glow=blue,2,300]I don't know if you'd call this humane but I've always heard that you can gas them in a chamber with CO2 but thats kinda expensive for killing a mouse. lol Yeah, I bred mice for a year and a half and got really good at selective breeding. It's actually quite good fun until you have to let em go.[/glow]
Yes CO gazing (and not CO2) is an effective and recognized way of euthanizing a mouse. But the risk of killing the humane operator in the process is important, so it's something you want to seriously think about before doing that... And the mice are perfectly consumable for the hawks after that, no toxicity.
Quick Q(s)- Ok how succesful have you been with breeding rats?What do you feed them?What kind of a structure do you house them in?Were would be a good place to research the breeding of rats?
What the deuce are you staring at?BUY MY CRAP-stewie griffin
When I was little in elementary school we had rats in the science lab. They would breed like crazy! We housed them in glass aquariums and fed them dog food. Dog food works great for feeding them. For beeding, instead of buying the expensive wood shavings I would just shred up newspaper in a paper shredder.
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