
A relaxed chicken is a happy chicken; try chicken hypnosis!
Chicken Hypnosis Works!
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You can also do this by placing the bird on the ground with it's beak also on the ground. Place your finger at, but not touching the tip of the beak and draw a straight line in the dirt away from the bird. This is how I have always put birds under.
Yes. You can also hypnotize a chicken by laying it on its side on the ground and drawing a line in the sand with your finger, right beside i its eye. The chicken will stare at the line, and lie quietly.
I believe this to be a prey response similar to a possum playing dead. Birds have stiff lungs that are supplied air via air sacs, so it shouldn't restrict breathing much, if any. Still, I have noted open mouth breathing when birds are on their backs, so I tend to restrict use of their tendency to go limp like this to things like treating SLM or trimming toenails. Holding a bird by the legs also produces a similar trance like state where they can be hung for slaughter or (in the case of a flighty bird) moved easily. Be careful of the possibility of regurgitation and aspiration.
Sources: personal experience with my flock (~200 birds to date) plus research into the anatomy of chickens.
Aren't you cutting oxygen supply by rolling them on their backs!? That's where the lungs are located. So they are basically passing out.
It is more of a “freeze” reaction; it’s not suffocation. It’s a gentle way of inducing ‘tonic immobility’, a state of temporary paralysis that enables an animal to feign death when cornered by a predator.
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