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P.S., Shadrach has given wonderful advice about getting vet care and advice. But this site is full of other information. Here are a few articles I have found useful and hope you do, too.

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Shadrach said:
Hello Liam H.
Welcome to BYC,
Something tells me you're not Spanish.:D
Vet care in Catalonia tended to reach the extremes in my experience. I got lucky and had rural vet who specialized in avian care when she qualified. She had only had two people bring her chickens in her entire practice time at the village the surgery was in; me and another crazy old man who used to take his rooster to her. I saw her do some stuff most vets wouldn't even attempt.
If you're rural then there are smallholdings and farms and a farm vet will be available, a requirement in fact. If one needed drugs then most would write a perscription for you without even seeing the creature. The reasoning behind this according to our farm vet was that farmers are likely to know more about health problems in their livestock than pet owners because dead through disease meant no carrcass money more often then not.
Take that as you will.:confused:

If you're been there a while, speak the language and socialize with local people then an alternative vet option is to find the people who used to breed fighting cocks. They will know who is best to see. As one would expect, many of these breeders manage their chickens health problems without official vet care, and many know more than a vet.
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Hi Shadrach,

No, I´m not a native Spaniard...but I´m working on it! I´m originally from Scotland in the UK. My Spanish is reasonable (I try to do 2 hours of learning every day) but nowhere near perfect. We stay in the campo near a town called almoradi in South East Spain (its about 30km south of Alicante). Fortunately, one of our Spanish friends works in a local vets, so we have got antibiotics if we need them. Unfortunately - and this is just the way things are - when we took one of our hens in a couple of years ago, the vet said he´d never had a chicken brought to him, and he´s been a vet for 30 years.

The simple truth is that nobody takes a €2 chicken to a vet that is going to charge €30 just to look at it. So, I think you are right that seeking out an experienced breeder may be the best option. Then again, there´s also plenty of experts on here, I´d imagine. :D
 

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