Backyard poultry

Re: Backyard poultry

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:01:24 GMT

advice number 560 : get hardy breeds, not fancy showing breeds.

Re: Backyard poultry

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:21:44 GMT

Advice your clients will politely ignore, number 234: get the birds from a respectable source, vaccinated against Marek's Disease.

Post-mortem anything dead. It is very instructive.

Poultry are quite easy to manage under GA and heal well when huge wounds and so on are sutured. But give the owner the estimate in advance.

Re: Backyard poultry

Ian Mostyn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:02:30 GMT

Look for the books written by Victoria Roberts on poultry. Very big in the poultry world before she became a vet but the books are straightforward and easy to understand. I have the BSAVA Farm Pets book as well.

Re: Backyard poultry

Emily Nightingale — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:48:21 GMT

Hello! If it's for you, the BSAVA Farm pets guide is very good by Freda Scott-Park et al. Otherwise ask your clients if they are on the net and if so there are lots of good "forums" for new chookie owners ie. omelette.co.uk etc.

Good luck with it!

Emily

Re: Backyard poultry

Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:34:50 GMT

Flubenvet and aureomycin. It's all you need to know!

Re: Backyard poultry

Stephen Ashman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:21:33 GMT

i use that too, quite good for 5mins pre-consult or even nipping out to read it within the consult!

Re: Backyard poultry

Mark Frost — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:28:52 GMT

I use the BSAVA Farm Pets manual for these situations and have found it useful. Its not very detailed so a more specific text may be more useful, which hopefully someone else will be along to recommend!