chicken in pain help! please!!!

[bhawk-23]

I’m glad to see you were able to find a vet to treat him. You originally said there are no local vets.

I also struggle with euthanasia. My hubs travels more than half the year which leaves me in charge of ending suffering. I would strongly advise you make a plan. Call vet clinics to see if someone there will euthanize a chicken. My vet will do it for me even though they do not treat chickens. I have had a local chicken owner come in an emergency and gave her some money. I have even paid for a necropsy just to have the chicken humanely euthanized. As a chicken owner it is my responsibility to have a plan if I am unable to do it. I suggest you find one too.

 

[calychicken]

I’m glad to see you were able to find a vet to treat him. You originally said there are no local vets.

I also struggle with euthanasia. My hubs travels more than half the year which leaves me in charge of ending suffering. I would strongly advise you make a plan. Call vet clinics to see if someone there will euthanize a chicken. My vet will do it for me even though they do not treat chickens. I have had a local chicken owner come in an emergency and gave her some money. I have even paid for a necropsy just to have the chicken humanely euthanized. As a chicken owner it is my responsibility to have a plan if I am unable to do it. I suggest you find one too.

Well, I think we can probably convince the vet to do it. Thanks.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thought I'd give an update on what happened to the bird.

We got him into a vet. He was going to get put down, but the vet didn't do it and gave us more antibiotics. At this point, we had cleaned out the maggots. The antibiotics helped for a bit but stopped working.

We didn't kill him. He's walking, crowing, eating drinking, dust bathing, foraging, doing anything a healthy chicken would. He even tries to mount the hens sometimes. He learned how to get around without vision on one side. He doesn't appear to be suffering anymore, he doesn't act like he's in pain whatsoever. He gets cleaned and bathed every week.


I guess we will see if he gets better or worse, but for now he's alive and doing well.

I'm glad you were able to see the vet and treat him. It's nice to read that he's doing o.k.

Thank you for the update.

 

[NorthFLChickenChick]

I’m glad to see you were able to find a vet to treat him. You originally said there are no local vets.

I also struggle with euthanasia. My hubs travels more than half the year which leaves me in charge of ending suffering. I would strongly advise you make a plan. Call vet clinics to see if someone there will euthanize a chicken. My vet will do it for me even though they do not treat chickens. I have had a local chicken owner come in an emergency and gave her some money. I have even paid for a necropsy just to have the chicken humanely euthanized. As a chicken owner it is my responsibility to have a plan if I am unable to do it. I suggest you find one too.

I agree 100% as a chicken mama and as a human nurse who worked for two decades watching families struggle to make decisions about assisting loved ones to change medical treatment from curative to comfort/palliative care (also been there myself with a terminally ill parent). Had to make a tough decision with a young hen for the first time in my 4 years of chicken keeping this past spring when I discovered a massive carcinoma had grown beneath her wing and started invading her breast. I knew her time was limited, and once she could no longer fly up to her roost and started laying at the bottom of the coop and run,Her clutch mates started to bully and peck at her. She was a beautiful Light Brahma, and it broke my heart to see her just lay there and close her eyes, fatigued and defeated…fortunately my hubs is a hunter and did the dirty work out in the shed where I never knew exactly how, but he ensured me that it was humane and she did not suffer. RIP Honey

 

[ChicNmom]

I'm glad he is better and that you were able to find care for him. With good care chickens can recover from some horrific injuries.


Please understand that I'm saying this as gently as possible. Based on your description and the length of time that you said had passed, it hurt me to think of that chicken lingering and suffering.
I found it disturbing.

I hope you have a plan in place in case you ever need it. And I sincerely hope you never need the plan.

this rooster has been suffering for months.

We are very much past treating him. At first, he had sour crop, then he got better, but his eye became infected. We did everything we could, but his flesh just rotted away. The whole side of his face is rotten flesh. We can see inside his head, it's utterly disgusting: Maggots, brain, everything. Nobody feels comfortable with neck-snapping, and we are looking for a way to put him to sleep without violence.

 

[calychicken]

I'm glad he is better and that you were able to find care for him. With good care chickens can recover from some horrific injuries.


Please understand that I'm saying this as gently as possible. Based on your description and the length of time that you said had passed, it hurt me to think of that chicken lingering and suffering.
I found it disturbing.

I hope you have a plan in place in case you ever need it. And I sincerely hope you never need the plan.

When I made the thread I was hysterical and had never gone through anything like this. The plan is too have him put to rest at the
Vet if he goes south.

 

[skeeeter]

Sometimes cars need jumpstarting... Unfortunately, sometimes we do too.
I am glad steps were taken in time, and you found a compassionate vet willing to "go the extra mile".
Life lesson learned.

 

[calychicken]

I have not been on here in a while (a LONG while), but life has been busy, as always.

Thought I'd give another update on the rooster.
The side of his face that was rotting is completely healed, just no eye there. It's just skin. On the other side, his eye was starting to go downhill but now looks completely fine and normal!!! Today, he was crowing and strutting around, acting like any rooster. He seems very happy and healthy and I'm very grateful for his perseverance...I guess life really does find a way.