Euthanize and freeze system?

I'm wondering what methods people use to euthanize and freeze off any extras so that there is variety in sizes of your frozen and you don't hurt the variety of your live.


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CO2 chambers are popular and easy to make. If you do a search here on BP.net, the topic has been discussed several times. I think there are even some plans for a CO2 chamber on here some where.

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Originally Posted by Slim

CO2 chambers are popular and easy to make. If you do a search here on BP.net, the topic has been discussed several times. I think there are even some plans for a CO2 chamber on here some where.

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I'm sorry I didn't mean how to do the euthanization, but how to choose who gets euthanized size wise. Like as in do you just pick a few of each size?


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Originally Posted by Gomojoe

I'm sorry I didn't mean how to do the euthanization, but how to choose who gets euthanized size wise. Like as in do you just pick a few of each size?

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Oh, sorry about that. Miss-understood what you were asking :oops:

Haven't had enough excess recently to be able to freeze, but I do whole batches of litters at once, trying to plan accordingly with who I know eats f/t and who refuses, and stocking the correct amounts and sizes. With our recent rat problem, we need to cull all the rats that are about to wean to those just dropped, and all males are seperated from females until an adequate quarantine period is met. Once a whole litter reaches the size I want/need, I gas them and they go into baggies into the freezer.

This may seem kind of morbid, but for anything hopper sized to adults, I use a rubber band to lightly hold down newly dead rat arms to the sides of their bodies, then into the freezer, and remove the rubber band at feeding time, to thaw out - It causes the arms to stay folded down, and are less of a hassle for snakes that seem to always get caught up on the arms pointing forward toward the face.

I mainly euthanize and freeze smalls and mediums simply because if I have surplus (during the winter) it will be fed to larger animals who have no issue switching back and forth from live to F/T.

I feed all my animals live first and anything left over that is 5 to 6 week is euthanized.