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New to site - first year vet student
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I am so happy you joined. It will be great if you can share a little of what you learn with us. I am a fellow newbie, but I have been lurking around the forum this summer trying to find answers to my questions. I am learning more all the time, but as usual, the more I learn, the more questions I think of. So much to learn. . .
While you may be right that many folks won't seek veterinary care for their chickens, you might be surprised how many of us would. One thing I would love to see happen in the near future is medications formulated specifically for chickens. So much of what we are told to use for chickens were actually designed for other animals, or even garden plants. I never know if I am choosing the safest, most effective method of ridding my chicken of lice and mites (for example) or if I am doing something that will eventually become toxic to them or to those of us who eat their eggs/meat.
Anyway, look forward to your posts!
While you may be right that many folks won't seek veterinary care for their chickens, you might be surprised how many of us would. One thing I would love to see happen in the near future is medications formulated specifically for chickens. So much of what we are told to use for chickens were actually designed for other animals, or even garden plants. I never know if I am choosing the safest, most effective method of ridding my chicken of lice and mites (for example) or if I am doing something that will eventually become toxic to them or to those of us who eat their eggs/meat.
Anyway, look forward to your posts!
How about a travelling vet service? I found my RN license can be shared in most states (except the state I'm in, Illinois) and so did my husband's neurology license. Our personal vet has a home vet service (but he does surgery in one specific clinic only).
I bet something could come of travelling vet clinics for chickens. I bet we would "flock" to a travelling chicken clinic with our weird little woes, like my rosecomb's curly toenail or her occasionally prolapsed vent, or mites advice and treatments.
Even little visits, like small seminars or courses on poultry hygeine or poultry nutrition or poultry anything, you name it, I bet we would flock to it.
I bet something could come of travelling vet clinics for chickens. I bet we would "flock" to a travelling chicken clinic with our weird little woes, like my rosecomb's curly toenail or her occasionally prolapsed vent, or mites advice and treatments.
Even little visits, like small seminars or courses on poultry hygeine or poultry nutrition or poultry anything, you name it, I bet we would flock to it.
Welcome and Good Luck!
My cousin is a vet and I've heard how tough all those years of school are!
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