I agree. The quality of life is going to be poor and the care potentially demanding.
As I said in my article, Slowpoke was able to keep up with his peers. He wasn't bullied or lagging in anything but size so keeping him until I was ready to butcher a batch was fine.
The bird I ought to have culled early was a crossbeak. I'd *thought* he was eating properly because his crop was full at night, but apparently not because when I butchered that batch he was pathetically thin -- a 1 on the condition chart.
We have the responsibility to not prolong our animals' suffering when there is no hope of recovery to a normal life.
