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Clodagh

Clodagh

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Chickens.. a friend asked me about her ex batt who had developed sour crop. (Turns out she’d been emptying the lawn mower into their run). I advised the usual non invasive stuff. Said vets can operate but for a rescue hen I wouldn’t bother.
She then asked someone else who came round and did the chicken upside down, squeeze it out twice a day thing.
Chook didn’t improve.
She then got someone else who went round, cut the chooks crop open with a razor blade, emptied the crop and sowed it up again. That is illegal, and imo inhumane.
It is still alive at the moment, 24 hours on. 😢
 
Clodagh said:
Chickens.. a friend asked me about her ex batt who had developed sour crop. (Turns out she’d been emptying the lawn mower into their run). I advised the usual non invasive stuff. Said vets can operate but for a rescue hen I wouldn’t bother.
She then asked someone else who came round and did the chicken upside down, squeeze it out twice a day thing.
Chook didn’t improve.
She then got someone else who went round, cut the chooks crop open with a razor blade, emptied the crop and sowed it up again. That is illegal, and imo inhumane.
It is still alive at the moment, 24 hours on. 😢
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I would report both owner and meddler for animal cruelty. And as it was poultry, I wouldn't bother with RSPCA but report directly to the council animal welfare dept.
 
That kind of DIY vet care seems to be a thing in American homesteading and you can find any number of youtube videos from the US showing you how to do it, which is possibly what encouraged this. Poor poor chicken, I'd be amazed if if doesn't get infected. I hope her owner will learn something about appropriate feeding practices from this if nothing else.
 
People don't seem to think/care that birds feel pain. I've seen and heard awful things with backyard poultry because people don't want to pay for a vet (or wait until they've bodge jobbed it themself) but also won't do the decent thing and wring it's neck instead of leaving the bird suffering
 
druid said:
People don't seem to think/care that birds feel pain. I've seen and heard awful things with backyard poultry because people don't want to pay for a vet (or wait until they've bodge jobbed it themself) but also won't do the decent thing and wring it's neck instead of leaving the bird suffering
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FB chicken groups are lousy with people who refuse both to learn to dispatch and to take a chicken to a vet. I had to leave the ones I was in, it drove me crazy.
 
druid said:
People don't seem to think/care that birds feel pain. I've seen and heard awful things with backyard poultry because people don't want to pay for a vet (or wait until they've bodge jobbed it themself) but also won't do the decent thing and wring it's neck instead of leaving the bird suffering
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I had offered to cull it for her when it didn’t improve in the first place. But no, when I got really angry last night she said ‘well at least it’s alive’. Ffs.
 
Burnttoast said:
That kind of DIY vet care seems to be a thing in American homesteading and you can find any number of youtube videos from the US showing you how to do it, which is possibly what encouraged this. Poor poor chicken, I'd be amazed if if doesn't get infected. I hope her owner will learn something about appropriate feeding practices from this if nothing else.
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This was an old boy, old school standards apparently. 😢
 
Clodagh said:
But it’s really weird. She thinks I’m so hard on my dogs, as I work them, and her two terribly behaved cockerpoos have a much better life. She ADORES her animals and yet allowed this to happen.
Even her partner who is pretty hard, is upset by it.
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She clearly doesn't adore them enough to get veterinary help when needed though. 🙄. I remember taking our duck to the vet when I was young, so it's really not that strange! You either deal with an issue in an agricultural way (dispatch it) or in a pet way (take it to the vet). You don't just allow someone to inflict cruelty so save a few £££.
 
meleeka said:
She clearly doesn't adore them enough to get veterinary help when needed though. 🙄. I remember taking our duck to the vet when I was young, so it's really not that strange! You either deal with an issue in an agricultural way (dispatch it) or in a pet way (take it to the vet). You don't just allow someone to inflict cruelty so save a few £££.
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I’ve taken particularly special ones to the vets.
 
Poor chicken.

Thanks for posting by the way, I've just been looking up sour crop. I lost a chicken on Monday and I was worried this was something I might have missed in her. But I don't think so. She was apparently fine on Sunday. Monday I left for work before daylight and got back at dusk, but dad informed on my drive back that she wasn't looking well today, all hunched up and not moving. I went straight to check on her when I got back and she was lied flat out in the coop. She was alive when I picked her up and I'm pretty sure she was already dead before I put her down in the cardboard box I'd got out to put her in (if not, she definitely was within moments). I have no idea what was wrong with her, but at least it was quick. All other chickens absolutely fine.
 
meleeka said:
She clearly doesn't adore them enough to get veterinary help when needed though. 🙄. I remember taking our duck to the vet when I was young, so it's really not that strange! You either deal with an issue in an agricultural way (dispatch it) or in a pet way (take it to the vet). You don't just allow someone to inflict cruelty so save a few £££.
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Exactly....our chickens get taken to the vet. Bit mad perhaps (particularly in a farming village) but we're financially comfortable enough to do it so....why not. It helps that our local vets are all independents and charge very little to PTS something they can't help. We keep chickens so we can have delicious high welfare eggs, not because it makes us any money (laughs hysterically). I do think sometimes people put birds into a different category in their heads with regards welfare.

A lot of the American homesteading style stuff on social media is very weird (IMO) for many reasons. It's kind of a whole social phenomenon all of its own.
 
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