Re: Hobby farmers pose bird flu risk ?

> I loved the idea of them suggesting that all chook keepers take their birds
> to their vets for any illnesses or even better calling the vet out !! . Its
> a perennial problem that most vets know little and do less about birds in
> most countries, this one not excepted.

Bizarre but true. Keeping old fashioned utility hens very extensively
looking after them properly has avoided most problems, but we had some
goose problems once. Our usual vet, though perfectly competent in other
areas, readily admitted that poultry was not an area he knew much about
- sadly, I don't recall him making much of an effort to become better
informed (we've since moved house and moved vets).
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