I would think that with your husband’s experience, it should be less of a risk for your birdYes. We can't have another roo, and these are our pets. I don't eat any meat, and re-homing would be hard as I would want to be completely sure he'd have a great life - our gang is pretty spoiled. I feel that as more and more people have pet chickens it would be great if there were a solution - I'd go to great lengths to take him to a specialist but I've come to the conclusion that avian vets rarely do this procedure...probably because they don't actually do that many chicken surgeries in the first place. I would never attempt anything like it myself, but as my husband is a top notch surgeon with very many years of surgical experience I'm hoping we can work this out. It's just the pain factor that worries me, but from what I've read chickens don't seem to experience pain in the same way we do.