How do you know when "its time"?

[BDutch]

Ooh, very sorry for the both of you.
Maybe now its the time to help her out of this misery. ? You know best when the time is right.

I read about using an airtight box and starter fluid (ether). Overdosing ether seems a painless dead. It is something I intent to do if I have a very sick hen in pain that needs an exceptional miracle to heal. It’s not something I would do easily. I rather give the chicken some time to heal and show progress. Just like you.
Good luck .

 

[Bsmac]

this is third time this hen has had vent prolapse on last 4 months. i nursed hr back to health using honey anti bacterial spray and honey last 2 times
but it happened again 6 days ago and despite using same regimen and keeping her in an isolated pen next to other hens, this time she not getting better, rather worse every day.
Today she’s sleeping a lot and huffed up, barely moving or eating and has empty crop, straining when she poops and despite washing her vent feathers daily, she always covered in white goop.
I know deep down i can’t save her and am devastated.
I think Ill have to euthanise her tomorrow

So sorry... That decision is always a tough one... Been there myself, I am sad for you...

 

[Toffael]

Ooh, very sorry for the both of you.
Maybe now its the time to help her out of this misery. ? You know best when the time is right.

I read about using an airtight box and starter fluid (ether). Overdosing ether seems a painless dead. It is something I intent to do if I have a very sick hen in pain that needs an exceptional miracle to heal. It’s not something I would do easily. I rather give the chicken some time to heal and show progress. Just like you.
Good luck .

i’ve nursed her back twice from this prolapse issue in last 4 months using anti biotics honey and anti bac spray and she took a week to recover, getting better daily. and then rejoined the flock.
But this time she just gotten worse every day, to point now when she barely eating and not moving and now today just sleeping.
It’s a chronic issue and i don’t think i can solve it, and even if i miraculously could, she will have same issue in a few weeks
because i’ve nursed her twice, we’ve become very close and she implicitly trusts me.
Her quality of life is zero now, so i think i know i have the take the decision for her, and end her suffering while she has some dignity left. (photo is from just now)
I’ve owned chickens for 14 months, hatched a few as well, but this will be my first loss.
i’m devastated for her but i know it’s time.
Good bye sweet hen, i was blessed to have you in my life.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

 

[Toffael]

Oh, I am so sorry for you both. Sending hugs and good vibes.

we euthanised her a few hours ago.

while rest were free ranging, I let her be in the run
(she’s been in enjoined medical bay for last 6 days).

i placed her on her favourite roost and sat with her for 30 mins:
she just slept with her head tucked under her wing. by this stage her beak was also covered by dry goop as she kept trying to preen her goop soaked vent feathers.
I’m 50 years old but i wept quietly: about the pain she was enduring, my helplessness in this situation, and about the decision i was about to have to take.
Then, my friend who is a vet arrived, and I left her with him as couldn’t bare to watch her perish.
Vet came back 5 mins later with her in a bag and said she went quickly and no pain and her suffering was over.

I think it was the best decision as only other option was to watch her die with her pain and quality of life deteriorating even further. In hindsight, i wish i’d taken the decision 24 hours earlier.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

we euthanised her a few hours ago.

while rest were free ranging, I let her be in the run
(she’s been in enjoined medical bay for last 6 days).

i placed her on her favourite roost and sat with her for 30 mins:
she just slept with her head tucked under her wing. by this stage her beak was also covered by dry goop as she kept trying to preen her goop soaked vent feathers.
I’m 50 years old but i wept quietly: about the pain she was enduring, my helplessness in this situation, and about the decision i was about to have to take.
Then, my friend who is a vet arrived, and I left her with him as couldn’t bare to watch her perish.
Vet came back 5 mins later with her in a bag and said she went quickly and no pain and her suffering was over.

I think it was the best decision as only other option was to watch her die with her pain and quality of life deteriorating even further. In hindsight, i wish i’d taken the decision 24 hours earlier.

I’ve had to make several one-way trips to the vet with dogs and cats over the years, and every time afterwards, I realized that I should have acted sooner.

I’m so sorry. Fly high and free, lovely girl!

 

[Bsmac]

we euthanised her a few hours ago.

while rest were free ranging, I let her be in the run
(she’s been in enjoined medical bay for last 6 days).

i placed her on her favourite roost and sat with her for 30 mins:
she just slept with her head tucked under her wing. by this stage her beak was also covered by dry goop as she kept trying to preen her goop soaked vent feathers.
I’m 50 years old but i wept quietly: about the pain she was enduring, my helplessness in this situation, and about the decision i was about to have to take.
Then, my friend who is a vet arrived, and I left her with him as couldn’t bare to watch her perish.
Vet came back 5 mins later with her in a bag and said she went quickly and no pain and her suffering was over.

I think it was the best decision as only other option was to watch her die with her pain and quality of life deteriorating even further. In hindsight, i wish i’d taken the decision 24 hours earlier.

IMHO the absolute hardest thing about keeping chickens is to help a bird you love move on without question... But the thought of suffering makes the choice a bit easier, but only a bit... Again soooo sorry...