Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

[Beekissed]

Or you can save the page you left off at on your tool bar for a quick return to that page...and just change that each day after your done reading to your new place of leave off. Printing off all this stuff and then realizing you printed off 50% information and the rest was just banter or backing and forthing will make you smack yourself when you have to replace your printing ink cartridge.

If I were serious about covering it all, I'd create a document in Word and copy and paste pertinent info onto it with the proper labeling or title for easy reference and then I'd print THAT off when I was done.

 

[galanie]

The key phrase in that post is "been to the vet..."  So, I have to wonder - why did the vet recommend all the expensive treatments?  Why didn't the vet just counsel that person and advise culling the bird?  Oh, yeah...  Most vet schools don't train vets to deal with typical pet birds, let alone chickens. Even "avian certified" vets may not have much real-life experience treating things with feathers...

...FYI, the treatments that poster was describing must be standard fare in the bag of avian treatment tricks.  It's almost exactly the same course of treatments an avian vet tried on my cockatiel several years ago.  Which failed to save the bird but did provide me a valuable if hideously expensive lesson in the economics of maintaining an unthrifty bird of poor genetic stock for mushy personal reasons. 

Sarah

You ain't a kiddin. Being a cockatiel owner, I've learned VERY expensive lessons about Avian vets myself. I often say that I should just shred up 100 dollar bills and feed them to the birds, they'll do as much good. (If you take your bird in and the first thing they want to do is a huge battery of tests and xrays before even looking at the bird - GET OUT OF THERE. FAST) But! I did finally find one by accident that has sense and knows something about not only pet birds but chickens. Not that I'd take a chicken to the vet, it was just refreshing to find one.

- Sarah (yep, me too.)

 

[galefrances]

Or you can save the page you left off at on your tool bar for a quick return to that page...and just change that each day after your done reading to your new place of leave off. Printing off all this stuff and then realizing you printed off 50% information and the rest was just banter or backing and forthing will make you smack yourself when you have to replace your printing ink cartridge.

If I were serious about covering it all, I'd create a document in Word and copy and paste pertinent info onto it with the proper labeling or title for easy reference and then I'd print THAT off when I was done.

That's good information. I've been keeping a handwritten notebook, actually two now. It's tedious. Never thought of making a Word Document. Thanks.

 

[Beekissed]

If you have the basic software on your PC, you can sort of make your own little chicken manual by first pasting all the info into a single document and later creating your own categories and paste from THAT document and pretty soon you have yourself a nice little book you can print off of things you would like to remember or refer to later.

 

[fowlman01]

You ain't a kiddin. Being a cockatiel owner, I've learned VERY expensive lessons about Avian vets myself. I often say that I should just shred up 100 dollar bills and feed them to the birds, they'll do as much good. (If you take your bird in and the first thing they want to do is a huge battery of tests and xrays before even looking at the bird - GET OUT OF THERE. FAST) But! I did finally find one by accident that has sense and knows something about not only pet birds but chickens. Not that I'd take a chicken to the vet, it was just refreshing to find one.
- Sarah (yep, me too.)

There are very few vets who know anything about poultry and even the state labs misdiagnose all the time, so generally it is a waste of money to bring a chicken or duck to a vet.

Walt

 

[galanie]

There are very few vets who know anything about poultry and even the state labs misdiagnose all the time, so generally it is a waste of money to bring a chicken or duck to a vet.

Walt

Understood. Just commiserating about the cost when it's a pet bird as in "parrot type" - Yeah no way I'd let them charge me a million for an animal that would better serve me by being a sandwich.

 

[City farm]

First guess?  Money maker.  It's all about the money with some vets..not all..but some.  Just like human doctors, they didn't get into it to go broke and most didn't go into it so they can "help"...and some get into it so they can help AND make a good living.  But a fool and her money?  Their kind of client...   

 

Agreed x2.. It is sad that she followed the docs instructions..
Chickens come & chickens go... We knew that when we got our flock..
We bought extra just for that reason.. However 1 roo out off 11 chicks
is still good odds...

Speeding of human doctors.. Dr. Max Gerson cured canser in the 30's..
How come most do not know that?? Could you imagine what would happen
if there was no more cancer?? Those treatment centers would have to shut
down... No more "send your $ in for us to do the research" every time I am in line
@ the grocery store I tell them it has been cured.. Go to their web site!!!

 

[Beekissed]

Cancer is a multi-billion dollar business in the US alone. No one is motivated to find a "cure" just yet....that would require a heart where hearts should be growing instead of the bank vault that currently resides in their chest. I used to be a nurse on the oncology floor(cancer ward)...I've seen the worst that greed can offer and you are correct. That was the year I stopped participating in walking for the American Cancer Society. I finished my nursing career in hospice and it only confirmed that I made the right choice.

 

[City farm]

...

I sure wish I had the money she spent on that hen. It would go to much better use.[ x2

 

[City farm]

Hospice rocks!!!
Yeah the Gerson institute has I believe..a 70% cure rate for stage 4...
Halleujah!!