I was reading a earlier site on electricuting birds and I was wondering if a car battery would work, if so it would be handy for the field Thanx.
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Auto batteries are DC current and DC is not lethal unless it's jacked out of site. Remember the tasers with 1 million watts to STUN people. That's DC current. AC current is a whole nuther animal.
for a chukar...18 inches should do it, but for a giant canada...i would go up to about 12 feet. those things can be tough.
to it than that. As soon as the electrical guru's in the office next to mine give me the info, I'll post it. BUT, I do know from a safety bulletin I've read, that at least 1 person has died from the current from a 9 volt battery. Yes, those little square ones like in your smoke detector. And for the record, a twelve volt car battery dropped 12 ft. on a honker is gonna make a mess...
is looking for a web link for me, but the electrical superintendants jaw dropped when I told him about wiring birds up like that. He said eventually, a bird farmer/taxidermist will show up in the Darwin Awards from this stunt. The amps are what'll kill you. Think of it as water. Volts are the "gallons per minute". Amps are the pressure. 100 gallons per minute in a 2" hose isn't going to be much pressure behind it. 100 gallons per minute through a 1/8" hose and the resulting pressure to do that would cut you in half. All that's required to stop the heart is 75 milliamps. The sparky said at the very minimum a person should wear industrial rubber gloves and rubber boots while doing it. But he wouldn't do it at all. BTW, this is coming from an electrician/former bird breeder that injected his to kill them. When injecting, the heart stops instantly so nothing will be circulated into the meat. If still worried about poisoning, use Everclear or Jack Daniels... I'll take his word for it on the shock killing method. Personally, I've never seen anyone play Russian Roulette or known anyone killed by it. But I know it will kill you, so I'll pass...
I have two in mind. One is a buddy and a "master" electrician who wired my house. He checks a light socket by wetting his finger and setting it on the side of the socket. He says he can feel a "tingle" of the spark jumping to the tip of his finger. RIGHT! The second one in a brother-in-law who works for TVA. He tells me that when in doubt, smack the line with the back of your hand (if you use the front, it will contract your fingers and you'll die). He claims the amperage with throw your hand off. RIGHT! Gonna try both those ideas just as soon as I finish drinking this bucket of snot.
All of you who've NEVER TRIED THIS or who've TALKED TO ELECTRICIANS are making much ado about nothing. If it scares you that bad, just take your shotgun and do it long distance. You might even find a way of plugging one in to a socket that works off a wall switch. But with your electricians screaming "wolf", you're likely to overload your GFI circuit and blow your switchbox right off the wall. You're not using a 200 amp service here, most wall receptacles are rated at 15 and on a GFI circuit, IF there was danger of current going to direct ground, the GFI would trip the circuit instantly.
if you are trying to put the bird down, this will work.
Put the bird in a burlap bag and tie it to the tail pipe, give it some gas and this will kill it , or clroraform. See if it is legal first.
is great and very quick. A cardboard box just big enough for the bird to go in so it can't flop and a hose to the tail pipe and it's over. Remember the canaries in the coal mines? Birds are extremly susseptable to toxic gasses. Why would you mess around with all this electricity stuff unless you get some kind of weird kick from it? Also maybe zap yourself.