Hardest Thing I Have Ever Had To Do!

[spacecowgirl]

I pray that the rest of your flock will be okay.. I'm so, so sorry for your loss.

 

[Dowie]

How awful. It sounds like it could be Mareks disease. I hope that the rest of the flock will be ok.

 

[nuttyredhead]

I am so sorry. How are the rest of them doing?

 

[NonnasBabies]

Sorry for your loss!!

 

[BrattishTaz]

Thank you all again.

The outdoor refrigerator that I was using to keep her in until I could send her to the state lab went out.

I had no choice but to bury her. It seems getting the necessary info for shipping is impossible late on a Saturday night, especially right before 9/11. I will be sending any others that I lose in for necropsy though. The rest of the birds are doing well at the the moment.

My flock will remain closed until I am confident they are not ill.

 

[Tres Amigas]

So sorry, Taz. Hope all goes well with the rest of your flock. Your girl was very lucky that she had a chicken mommy that would not let her suffer unduly.

 

[ScottyHOMEy]

It's never easy. Having grown up around a farm, one thing I learned is that the pause one takes about butchering an animal intended to be meat is a sign of respect for that animal. And that a person takes that pause speaks well of their character.

The same holds true when an animal never intended for the table has to be put down. Over the last very few years I've had to put down a promising young horse that contracted an encephalitis, and our fine and faithful dog, Miss Maya, whose liver gave out without notice. Both painful decisions and events, but necessary.

That's what you've experienced. Any comfort with the decision or the deed is to be found in knowing that you did what was right for your bird.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

I hate that for you and your family.

 

[sydney13]

So sorry for your loss, it always sucks to loose a pet

Maybe it could be fowl pox? I'm pretty sure that that generally causes lumps on the face