Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Look what came this morning!

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Mine still hasn’t arrived.

 

[BY Bob]

Happy Friday

From Lilly and her best friend Sansa.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

It absolutely is frustrating. The real problem is a veterinary community that does not value the lives of our feathered friends the same as they do dogs and cats. It's just a chicken. Kill it and get another. If the government is going to restrict our access to the tools we need to save their lives then they need to mandate training and care by all licensed veterinarians.

Good idea. At least make them have some competency in the basic skills needed.

 

[BY Bob]

Thank you (sent from the penalty bench)

 

[BY Bob]

Notice the different covers? Aussie versus USA editions? Mine is like @FransGran 's - is that a Leghorn?

Sure looks like a leghorn to me! But I am biased.

 

[BY Bob]

But they do have experts for industrial poultry farmers, just not for me ☹

Industrial poultry farmers do not treat their chickens as we do. That's the problem. I truly wish it was easier to learn because I would make it my next career. I could not even get into a vet school and then they would not teach me what I want to know.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Step one toward reuniting Lil' Queenie with at least one or two of her flock-mates! I got hold of the lady who knows the family that took some of the flock. Doesn't know how many they have. She says the chicken keeper is a 14 year-old boy, who got a couple of hens for eggs, sold two dozen eggs, and saved that money to buy two more hens. This lady said it is a nice family, he has parents and grandparents there helping him along. Does this sound promising, and am I totally off base worrying? Not that I should talk, being in the penalty box now....

 

[MaryJanet]

Industrial poultry farmers do not treat their chickens as we do. That's the problem. I truly wish it was easier to learn because I would make it my next career. I could not even get into a vet school and then they would not teach me what I want to know.

I find the differences between the veterinary professions in the US and Australia very interesting. Why are so many Australian vets ready and able for avian work? I would have thought the large numbers of bird pets in the US cities and suburbs would have created sufficient demand for the vet schools to put avian specialties in their degrees or something like that. What am I not getting?

 

[BY Bob]

Industrial poultry farmers do not treat their chickens as we do. That's the problem. I truly wish it was easier to learn because I would make it my next career. I could not even get into a vet school and then they would not teach me what I want to know.

Chicken tax

 

[MaryJanet]

Step one toward reuniting Lil' Queenie with at least one or two of her flock-mates! I got hold of the lady who knows the family that took some of the flock. Doesn't know how many they have. She says the chicken keeper is a 14 year-old boy, who got a couple of hens for eggs, sold two dozen eggs, and saved that money to buy two more hens. This lady said it is a nice family, he has parents and grandparents there helping him along. Does this sound promising, and am I totally off base worrying? Not that I should talk, being in the penalty box now....

No harm in reaching out to meet them in person.