Is There a Humane Way to Euthanize?

[eggchel]

http://www.alysion.org/euthanasia/

Euthanasia at home for small animals using CO2 (supposedly approved by vets)

Chel

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Thanks Again Eggchel.

I have read alot on Marek's, for some reason it facinated me. When you buy from a hatchery you should ALWAYS aske to have your chicks vaccinated. If you buy from a feed store you should ASK to have this done and usually it is included in the cost of the chick.

In a good number of URL's I have visited it states at the end:
May you never get Marek's disease in your flock.....

 

[Lynn]

Thanks, Eggchel... my last post must have crossed with yours! I am now very confused. Joe's main symptoms seem to be lethargy and yellow, pasty diarrhea, but no other symptoms. He isn't puffed up or ruffled. His eyes are closed a lot, though. He isn't eating much.

I am treating him with Sulmet and feeding vit. B and nutri-drench and keeping fingers crossed.

It was the yellow pasty diarrhea, with lack of other noticeable symptoms, that had me convinced it's the same as Wermfud's. May still be... but am questioning whether it is Marek's, though.

...while I was typing this, I noticed you posted again with a link I'm going to check out right now. Thanks so much!!

Lynn

 

[conny63malies]

http://www.alysion.org/euthanasia/

 

[Lynn]

Rimshoes... that is what is confusing to me. I had my chicks vaccinated when I ordered them, but, the Wermfud post indicated that according to UC Davis, there is no true vaccine... only a preventer for some of the symptoms, so I thought this must be what it is. Now, though, I don't really know what to believe....

Guess time will tell.

Lynn

 

[redhead83402]

honestly ~ do you know a neighbor who has could do this for oyu? It takes one second with an axe, and the bird never knows what hits it ~ We hang the chickens upside down to dull them, and then cut their heads off in 2 seconds flat ~ I can't imagine sitting there holding a pet , trying to eauthanize them with some sort of gas ~ to me that seems the more cruel way. It seems like it would prolong the whole process. An axe is 2 seconds & they're gone ~
Sorry, but holding a struggling pet while they die, ~ just seems very .... not fun ~ seems to me that that way would be a much harder way to go ~ I could never do that to my chickens. An axe, yes ~ quick & painless ~ by the time they register pain, they are dead.

I had to sit & hold a pet cat that was dying from that bad cat food from china a yr or so ago ~ we had to take him to the vet, and the vet gave him a shot to help it along, since there was nothing we could do. It was 100 times worse holding that cat while he died, knowing that we had ok'ed the shot, knowing there was nothing more to be done for him.

My advice ~ let a friend or neighbor do it ~ especially if this is a beloved pet.
~Red

 

[Poohbear]

I agree with Redhead. Ask a friend that is not attached to your chicken to take care of it for you and to dispose of it in a healthy manner. Try to keep your chicken quarantined until you decide. You might trying some bread and milk in him for two or three days then slowly get back on grain. The bread and milk with help clean his system. Night have to put small bites in his mouth by hand. If he had Mareks and you ordered other chickens when you got him, have they also showed these symptoms? Lotsa questions??????

 

[eggchel]

http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/diagext.htm

Here is a site that offers suggestions for possible diagnosis based on symptoms.

I hope your bird is doing better.

Chel

 

[maine chicks]

My vet recommended the dog carrier in a plastic bag with the tailpipe from the car. Any type of shot she gave to put her down would have been very bad/deadly to an animal that dug her up. The CO2 method would not cause pain and allowed us to bury her around home without worring about other crittters.

 

[BeardedChick]

The ether euthanizing will make the bird sqiurm alot. They are basically suffocating and know it.

Here's an article on euthansia of rabbits. Maybe it will help.

http://jubileeacres.net/euthanasia.html​