Chick with severe facial injury- treat or euthanize?

I have a hen raising five chicks she and another two hens hatched (long story). She was brooding well and caring for all the chicks, but this morning I found one of the chicks had most of his face skin, including the right eyelids though not the nictitating membrane, torn off. I let the mom and chicks out of the brooding pen in case the confinement was the cause of the stress and separated the wounded chick. I gave him water and applied colloidal silver to the exposed flesh, but apart from offering him food and keeping him warm I am not sure what to do. The colloidal silver and confined care saved an adult duck I had who had received a similar though proportionally smaller wound from a raccoon, but she had her eyelids still. Do you think she can make it?

Oh wow, tough call. Some chicken people here will have better advice than I can offer.

I think the fact is that with pets and farm animals, bad things happen. My rule is "Never let an animal suffer to make it easier on me." So I'm inclined to euthanize; but it's impossible to make the call from a distance.

I'm not a chicken person, but I would be willing to treat the bird and give it every chance to heal and recover.

But at the first sign of infection/swelling, then I'm with Doug, put it down quickly.

Best of luck to you and the bird.

Peace

Poor little thing.

If they are willing to attempt eating,  drinking and pooping,  I will go to heroic efforts to help them alive.  It shows they want to survive.

If not, I give them a few hours of my time to see if love improves their condition (about 50% success rate).  And if they get worse or show too much pain symptoms, it's time for a quick ending.  

If they show no change,  keep them isolated but within sound of their flock overnight and assess in the morning.   At the very least they can go in their sleep near their loved ones.  If only we could all be so lucky.

I agree with Douglas. If it were me, I'd probably isolate and give it all that seemed necessary for a day or two but and assess improvement. Any decline, infection, lethargy, not eating, and I'd euthanize. The beak looks deformed though, right?  I like Blue Kote for wounds that might attract flies but that is tricky to heal being so close to eyes... as I type i'm thinking without functioning eyelids, life would be really hard. Day, night, sun, wind, debris...I think I'd euthanize if that is the case.

We once had an attack on our flock and most of the chickens were gone (fox? IDK), some wings left around, and some unharmed. One bird was left alive and injured. She looked like a ball of feathers with chicken legs. her neck and head were bare and hung straight down like a plumb bob. I had  a livestock antibiotic on hand that I injected her with, isolated in a quiet, safe place, slathered antibiotic cream on her neck and wrapped it in vet wrap to keep it cleaner. I remember syringe feeding some stuff too but don't recall what (rescue remedy? colloidal silver? probably) . I also left town for a few days and she recovered slowly and completely. Everyone thought I was crazy for trying. We still have her and she seems fine, years later. She's our best non-egg- layer.