Re: Can chickens get Pink Eye??? How do you get rid of it????


"Nicholas" <njloch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> pammyT wrote:
> > could be some sort of eye infection. As to the rest, since I don't
> > think anyone here is a veterinarian, and if they were it would be
> > illegal to do some kind of cyber diagnosis without seeing the animal,
> > and then prescribe treatment, I can only suggest you get it to a vet
> > without delay. Allowing an animal to suffer is not an option.
>
> Not an option? No one likes to see an animal suffer, or should I say
> that of those of us who are still sane, no one likes to see animals
suffer.
>
> I only have a small hobby flock and I really like my birds, however I am
> also realistic. A trip to our local Vet would cost me about $75.
Are you sure? Have you called them?

I
> could replace my whole flock for less than half that money.
So if you had an animal like the OP you would kill it and replace it or take
it to the vet not simply do nothing.
It is a common misconception how much a vet visit would cost. I hear the
same thing over here. In reality all of my local vets charge only £5
consultation fee and whatever any medicine would cost.
Entirely affordable especially to those of us with birds which mean more
than simply an egg producing machine.With some of my birds bneing worth up
to £45 each, they are financially worth thecost of a vet visit, but wioth
them all being my pets, morally they are worth it too.

>
> However if one of my cockatiels were to get an eye infection I would
> probably take him to the Vet without delay. Does that make me a
> hypocrite? I don't think so. It means that I am poor and sometimes I
> have to make tough choices.
Poor here too but too poor to care for my animals properly, nope.Cat at the
vets as we speak. I'm doing a car boot sale on Sunday to raise the £130
cost.
*I* decided to get the animals. *I* have to shoulder the cost of keeping
them.
>
> > Ask yourself, if this was your child with eyes gummed closed, would
> > you go to a mother and baby newsgroup and as the same question?
>
> No, I would wipe the crap out my child's eyes and take him/her to the
> doctor, but were talking fowl not family.
>
For some of us, our fowl are family. If I choose to keep an animal, I
consider I have an absolute moral obligation to care for them properly.
Not taking a sick animal to the vet because you are poor, is no more of an
excuse than it would be to starve them to death for the same reason.
> Just my 2 cents,
>
*my* 1p worth.


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