euthanasia

I have this 5 week old chick that's doing really terribly. She got wry neck, and was doing well in recovery until a few days ago, as she started declining rapidly in health. Shes... -Regurgitated 3 times at this point -very underweight (though we're getting it up) -rolling around like a bowling...

Hello, everyone. I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this, but I couldn't find a better category. This is graphic, so please, if you are already having a difficult week, don't continue reading. This experience has traumatized me to the point of being able to think of little else for...

Hello, I returned from a few days a way to a hen waddling and after checking I am pretty sure she has ascites / water belly. Swollen and squishy, comb very dark. Eating but fussy, running when treats come. No feathers on her belly but she has been like that for over a year. She is 2.5 years old...

Awhile back we had a girl that got fly strike pretty bad. Decided we needed to euthanize her. Did some research and went with the cervical dislocation method and it was an awful experience. There is a learning curve to the method and I didn't do it right at first. Ideally I wanted to go a less...

Hi, I have a 2 year old silkie who was swooped by a magpie today and has caused an injury to her eye. Immediately after the attack she went into what I think is shock but it has now been over 6 hours and she is still laying in a basket of towels unresponsive. If I touch her she has what seems to...

Not sure what forum to put this in but I just euthanized my first chicken. That was hard, but I did it, and when I have to do it again some day again I hope I will be even quicker. I’d promised myself I wouldn’t get chickens again unless I was willing to do this part too. Sad. Relieved I...

I just came on to seek advice and vent. I got Hops, my banatm rooster, in October as a rescue. I do not know his history. He's probably young. A bit over a week ago, he started dragging a leg. I took him in to get x-rays, and there was no sign of any injury or cancer. The first couple days I...

**Graphic Imagery Warning!** Hello, Yesterday around 6pm I found out that one of my family’s juvenile birds escaped their side of the enclosure (they are separated from the adult birds by a plastic mesh fence) and was brutally attacked by the hens. She is a Rhode Island White around 2 1/2...

Her inside was all out she was in obvious pain. But I still don't feel any better about doing it. Had I been prepared to do so not just walked out to a bloody mess. Feeling pretty down.

I'm very sad to make this post, as I've grown incredibly attached to my little ameraucana chicks. However after reading through some threads on this forum, I believe it is necessary. I suspect at least 2 of my 3 chicks are cockerels---this is based on my observations during vent sexing (though...

A week ago our hen Michelle was attacked by what we then thought was a dog but ended up being an eagle. I posted pictures of her wounds and asked for help here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dog-attack-open-back-wound.1463179/#post-24387548 Now her wounds look dried out even with...

I have a Peking drake, very big but only 5 months old. A few weeks ago he suffered a foot injury, looks like his middle toe is broken. He was unable to really put weight on the foot but he still managed to get around. I isolated him and put him in a pool to swim and get exercise everyday to try...

This is my first time hatching and raising quail. All of my chicks except 1, which was born blind (without eyes). I didn't want to cull it yet since I thought it would maybe be able to see or learn to adapt in the future but so far it's been 1 week in and I still hand feed the chick as it never...

Our 15 week old chicken, Clover, hasn’t been able to walk for a week now. We got her and 3 other pullets who are the same age from a backyard breeder (who vaccinates for Marek’s) when they were 6-7 weeks old. It’s the first time we’ve kept chickens. We’ve been reading up in our chicken book and...

I have a hen with a blocked, sour, pendulous crop. I've been massaging it. Giving her monistat and stool softener. It hasn't fixed the issue and now she has stopped eating. I am looking to humanly euthanize her by internal decapitation but I'm so scared I will botch it. How hard is it to do?

Damn. Sorry for starting with a swear word; I'm angry and sad. Cleo, my six-year-old PBR, was just attacked by our neighbor's golden retriever, who jumped the fence that was partially blown down by the hurricane. I'd propped it up until I can get someone out to fix it and the neighbor was...

Beatrice, a beautiful 10 month old Plymouth Rock hen, was gently euthanized yesterday. We fought the fight to keep her alive for 11 days. We focused our efforts on what we could do that MIGHT help her to get better. We based our treatments on the symptoms we could observe. We did not have an...

When you come to the hard decision to euthanize one or more members of your flock there are many ways to do so. If you aren't able or willing to eat the bird then your options increase. If you are like us, you read as many posts as possible and decided that cutting or shooting and the subsequent...

Hi all, I have a duck that has congenital arthritis. I received her from someone else that didn’t do anything for her deteriorating condition. She was diagnosed back at K-state (when I lived in Kansas) and has been on Meloxicam that she gets every morning. She has been on it for a few months...

Hello, I have a heartbreaking question that I would love to get advice on. My bantam hen is about 5 years old, one of my brooder mamas whose idea of a perfect life is to sit in her nest box all day. She is still laying and hasn't had any trouble before. Today I notice her vent was extremely...