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[Mimi13]

Hands on experience can be much more in depth than someone that got their knowledge from a book. It's easy to memorize symptoms and disease during text book learning, but to diagnose it and explore it yourself really hits it home.

Amen to that!

 

[Mimi13]

Amen to this 100x over! I venture to say that I have seen some stuff veterinarians have never seen nor understand. That's not bragging, just weird experience. Like the thyrogenous dwarfism and having had birds actually tested genetically, finding something new and crazy, that a bird can actually be a double dwarf gene carrier and not be a dwarf, something that was supposedly impossible. But, there it was. There is still a lot not known, I'm sure. And chickens don't read the veterinary manuals.

This is so true.

 

[TwoCrows]

Amen to this 100x over! I venture to say that I have seen some stuff veterinarians have never seen nor understand. That's not bragging, just weird experience. Like the thyrogenous dwarfism and having had birds actually tested genetically, finding something new and crazy, that a bird can actually be a double dwarf gene carrier and not be a dwarf, something that was supposedly impossible. But, there it was. There is still a lot not known, I'm sure. And chickens don't read the veterinary manuals.

I totally agree! Vets have their knowledge, but honestly, unless they keep a flock of chickens and have dealt with a particular problem, its very likely that we will know more than them. My vet is humble enough to know that there are times I do know more than he does and will dispense meds just on my experience in knowing what I need. LOL

 

[speckledhen]

I totally agree! Vets have their knowledge, but honestly, unless they keep a flock of chickens and have dealt with a particular problem, its very likely that we will know more than them. My vet is humble enough to know that there are times I do know more than he does and will dispense meds just on my experience in knowing what I need. LOL

The best of both worlds is a vet who owns chickens!