ducks4you
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I have lost 2 roosters to "who KNOWS what" over the years. They just got sick and died a few days later. Maybe? bug bites?!?
I have owned birds off and on since I was 5yo, starting with parakeets. Birds don't seem to be able to recover and heal once they get sick. Counter THAT with the puncture injury one of my horses got about 10 years ago. It was easily 5 inches deep and dirty. The University Vet saw him and it didn't hit an artery or damage the muscles in his chest. We flushed it out every day with an iodine and water mix, then packed with Nitrofuricin. After a few months you couldn't even see the hole. Mammals heal so much better and horses heal so well that you sometimes have to abraid what is called "proud flesh" where the healing goes overkill.
Don't wanna say what I paid to have my first hen's Vet visit, but I got a neat x-ray out of it.
I have owned birds off and on since I was 5yo, starting with parakeets. Birds don't seem to be able to recover and heal once they get sick. Counter THAT with the puncture injury one of my horses got about 10 years ago. It was easily 5 inches deep and dirty. The University Vet saw him and it didn't hit an artery or damage the muscles in his chest. We flushed it out every day with an iodine and water mix, then packed with Nitrofuricin. After a few months you couldn't even see the hole. Mammals heal so much better and horses heal so well that you sometimes have to abraid what is called "proud flesh" where the healing goes overkill.
Don't wanna say what I paid to have my first hen's Vet visit, but I got a neat x-ray out of it.