To cull or not to cull

[humblehillsfarm]

Thank you for your sympathy. I don't like to think about the culling process, my dad normally heads for them after I say final good byes and then I never see their sweet faces again.

It never gets easier. You’re fortunate to have help. Even through the heartache, I could never not have chickens. I love them so much! I’ve shed a lot of tears and lost a lot of sleep over them too.

 

[Kiki]

Do you feed treats to your flock?
If so stop.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

3 year old black austrolorp named Nana

She was weak, fell on her side one of the times I touched her. She isn't holding herself well and has little energy. The poop was familiar to me and by the time bed time rolled around her butt was recovered.

The labored breathing, lost weight, and weakness already had me worried that I knew what was wrong, but when I checked her lower abdominal area I truley knew and she's already to far gone.

She has ascites. It's incurable and shes already in so much pain. I had another girl (Ms. Green) who had it. The problem is that chicken took 3 months before she started liver leaking and then it went extreamly down hill... Nana has showed signs for two days and her liver is leaking.

I know with Nana in so much pain already it isn't fair and I should ask my dad to take care of her.

It's the same green crap and the sour smell is sorta starting. Plus I've compared her belly to her sisters. Her liver is defintelly leaking.

Trust me I'm not jumping to conclusions.

I'm sorry about Nana.
You know your hens better than anyone else. If you feel she's in pain and suffering, then it's a kindness to let her go.
It's not the fun part of chicken keeping, but eventually it's something all of us must face.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

"When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out -that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse."

~ Robert A Heinlein.

Same rule applies to your chickens. Its time.

 

[Lovem all]

Nana has passed. Thank you all for the love and support. She will be missed but not forgotten

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

 

[Eggcessive]

Very sorry for your loss.

 

[Lovem all]

treats are not causing this.

 

[Waves]

Thank you for your sympathy. I don't like to think about the culling process, my dad normally heads for them after I say final good byes and then I never see their sweet faces again.

Oh, this moved me. I had a chicken with that stuff, maybe 2 hens of mines died of this. I didn't know what was happening and i tried to save them in every way i could. I i didn't save them, you knew her and you knew when it was too much for her
The last i lost for this stuff was called Panta. I watched her in her eyes, i hug her, i said her "good night, panta". I knew she was dying. The next morning, my dad went to see her and... Oh, she didn't passed the night. I miss her. I'm very sorry and close to you

 

[Anime2lover]

Sorry about your loss.