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

PammyT wrote: 
"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?

Sure did..... $45 for the consultation $55 for the antibiotics. That was $100 spent on a bird I paid $5 for.

Result... Bird Died! as did probably a dozen others from the same cause. The Vet had no idea what he was talking about. I did better at the local poultry club. They didn't know what the disease was called, but they were familiar enough with the symptoms to tell me to save my time and money and lop off their heads. Cost $5 a year membership.

In short Pammy get down off you bloody high horse, wake up and smell the coffee. You have been peddling this same bleeding heart go to the vet crap here for years. The reality is that most people will not pay for a vet unless there is some return on their investment. 

 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.

I would do what I could for it. That light be simply lop off it's head or it might be a cure. 
 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.


Well lucky you!@

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,

You may value them at that, some may even pay that for them. That does not make them worth anything! A thing, be it bird or house, only has any real fiscal value when it is sold.

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.

You chose to keep animals. You chose the expensive option in treating the animal. That is your right and whilst you don't expect anyone else to subsidise your right that I simply am not interested. If others choose the cheaper treatment (a home where they will never want for anything) then that is also their right.


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. 

That is a VERY sad comment

If I choose to keep an animal, I
consider I have an absolute moral obligation to care for them properly.

Good for you. Others think differently are they wrong for doing so? (Just be careful here. Right and wrong are not as simple as your or my opinion. And in no way do the opinions of PETA or the RSPCA come into it either.)

 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.

Your complete intolerance of anything not resembling your yard, where animal have right over people, is showing


Just my 2 cents,


*my* 1p worth.


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