Very kind of you; your words help more than you could ever know. I think we've got to tell vet schools to educate their students in his to neuter cockerals. There is a great need out there. How old is your dau?
Thank you Sue; you've verbalized
Thank you Sue; I still am enjoying my chickens 'tho yearning for their bro to be with them. Yes the "other options" for my cockerals would have been worse I think for my situation; would always know he was sad + missed us in a new home if indeed be wasn't done...
My beloved Checkers did not survive. Respiratory distress turned into cardiac arrest. Surgeon never even got to approach the testes. However he later viewed them saying they were twice the size of incision + he would have had diff. It was an open between ribs incision through air sac, not...
Please know that these 3 boys (especially this one) are being extremely rough on the girls and I feel it is my duty to help my hens! This is not an emotional whim! I am trying to keep him alive at the same tim e. Do you have the same anger at the ones who do the caponizing without anesthesia...
If you noticed I said a 10% chance of death; the vet told me that and said that was too high for his liking. He was honest. Of course I expect to pay for his expetience, knowledge and time. I am not pursuing rehoming because the people told us if the roosters don't work out they kill them. Their...
Of the 7 chicks my grandaughter brought home from 4-H, 3 are cockerals! Our town ordinance only allows 1 rooster and neighbors on both sides have complained about the crowing (they are 7 mos old). Well of course we love them too much to find new homes where they of course will be "euthanized"...