I've mentioned on other threads who's advice one pays heed to can be the difference between success and failure.
Unfortunately we now live in a world where everyone can publish their opinion and a current fashion is that each opinion is of equal value. It isn't.
When it comes to the majority of medical problems one can research the topic through the various online medical texts and find the information one needs.
There are exceptions. This for me was one such exception which demonstrates what I though was an interesting range of responses and even more so, an interesting result.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/nuerological-or-something-else.1318208/
Bracket was alive and well when I left Catalonia.
So, when seeking advice on an internnet forum try and check the probability that the person who is giving the advice has at least some experience of the problem you are faced with. Good intentions and empathy are great, but not much use when you've got a critical problem.
One way of checking is looking at profiles and photo albums.
On the profile page is is a small box with Find written in it. It offers Content, Threads and Articles.
There is a lot of regurgitating advice and information from other posts and medical texts. You can find all this yourself.
A lot of what I've learned about chickens and chicken keeping has come from observation and other chicken keepers I've known over the years. I learned very little from Internet forums until I got off the main drama boards and started reading the better articles and reading some of the threads from some of the more experienced chicken keepers.
Some of the most interesting and evenually proven to be useful information I found came from chicken keepers in Catalonia. There were as one might expect problems in translation, some of which were pretty funny.
One such piece of advice concerns the problem of Isolation and transportation.
Most people do not habitually move their chickens long distances. People involved in cock fighting and specialist breeding however do move chickens long distances, often to and from other countries.
I and the chickens found taking trips to the vets very stressfull when I started doing this. They don't like being caught and shoved in a strange container.
I mentioned this problem to one of my Catalonian friends and he told me to buy a pet transporter of the appropriate size and leave it open in a area where the chickens would see it and investigate it permenantly. He kept one in each of his runs for his game fowl. Each container was kept open and in his case filled with bedding. The cock and hen got used to the container and even built their nests in it after a while. Ushering a bird into one in such circumstances is virtually stress free for all. These days a plastic pet transporter are easiest to keep in good condition when outside. My friend still used the tradititional wicker basket.
I ended up with two. One I kept outside and another in my house.
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