Help! Bird is gasping for air for 2 days, she has Marek's and still can not die((((

[casportpony]

X2, an ax is more humane than trying to OD one.

-Kathy

 

[PoultryPedia]

Natali--I didn't know if you might now of a sedative that would either put her to sleep or at least ease her suffering, & that's why I asked about if you had useful sedatives. I don't know sedatives very much myself.

I would also recommend putting her down manually at this point. To do a euthanization, a friend of mine puts an ill chicken in a bag with a paper bag over its head, and then uses tree branch loppers to sever the neck. That way she doesn't have to see the bird after it is dead. If you have some good strong loppers, I'd recommend that.

You can also use an axe but I like the idea of loppers better.

 

[Natalijaasbj]

Thank you for your help - an hour ago my husband came from work, and eventually got a courage to use a pallet gun.
Iti is strange I did not SO much problem to kill the meat roo a week ago(a slit throat method), AS WITH THIS ONE although it WAS hard. But this hen was so special - she was Grey silver orpington and she was very fluffy and cuddly. She would clean the feathers to other birds and NEVER pecked any of them. We called her Paloma ( a Dove - she had this dove gentle nature to her).
i WILL NEVER FORGET HER

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your loss.

-Kathy

 

[Natalijaasbj]

Thanks you Kathy!
I folow you guys on the "Marek's board" . Learned a lot there. I think I am DONE WITH natural selection thing. I am too emotional for that. I will go with vaccines next time.
Interesting, one would think that if natural selection is working perfectly, the "strong birds" would have been already free from such thing as MArek's, selecting themselves for thousands years, but apparently they still get it. So I will go with helping them next time I get them.

 

[casportpony]

Marek's is one of the leading causes of death in backyard flocks in California,

-Kathy

 

[schnebbles]

Sorry about your loss. I had one put down Saturday at the Shelter for $25.

 

[MamaDoodle]

R.I.P.

 

[seminolewind]

So sorry!

 

[Natalijaasbj]

thank you for your condolences and trying to help me.
Kathy - the same situation is in WAshington state - this is what avian state clinic told me. Well, lesson learned the hard way. This is a MONSTER sickness((