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vet with chicken knowledge in Southampton* Doubly sad update

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Does anyone know of a vet with experience of chickens near Southampton before we take Ginger to our normal vet (which is really a domestic pets practice?)

 

UPDATE: Fri 22nd:

Tonight we took Ginger to our normal vet who fortunately in the end turned out to have chickens himself. He diagnosed advanced egg peritonitis, as we'd suspected and as i have posted about elsewhere recently. She was just basically passing her congealed intestines.

We also took our other hen, Pepper, along too who had also started to not eat and had passed a few mini lashes. The vet examined her and felt that probably she was going the same way as Ginger but maybe 4-5 weeks behind her. He offered to try some antibiotics but in the end we decided that as Pepper would be bereft without her sister and traumatised if we tried to introduce newbies at same time as she was unwell, that maybe it was kinder to let them go together. So we left them just sitting quietly side by side for the vet to put to sleep at the same time. They were our first and to date only chooks and they gave us such pleasure over the last two and a half years. RIP Ginger and Pepper.

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Hiya,

 

if you go on the RCVS website and use their vet finder and use the 'advanced search' setting to select poultry, it will locate vets in your area that list poultry as a specialism! Also try 'exotic pets' :) and then give the practices a ring!

 

I found 2 vets in my area this way. and have registered at one permanently.

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Thanks Squiffs! The RSPCA one in Shirley is very close to us - closer in fact than our normal one in Chandlers Ford. Will be in touch with them.

 

UPDATE: the RSPCA would only offer treatment if we were on benefits so that wasn't much use in the end. BUT I then rang our vets practice and explained that it was a chicken problem and she said one of the vets owns chickens himself and so should be able to help! He's on the rota for the open surgery tonight 5-7 so my OH is coming home early so we can take Ginger to see him. She passed some lashes out on the grass this morning - no ordinary poos at all recently - so not sure of prognosis.

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John Chitty specialist in birds, reptile and rabbit vet. Works in hampshire and is mobile from a van in the andover hawk conservancy/ marwell zoo near winchester and portons near salibury clincs in various locations...one out)side the Hawk conservancy (if you know it)

 

mobile number 07775796432 phone he will be happy to speak to you first (he keeps chickens himself)

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I'm so sorry you lost both your girls but I think you did the right thing in letting them go together, must have been really hard for you though. Hope you do have some more girls in the future.

I would be interested in the vet you found as I am in Totton. Touch wood - not needed one yet but would be nice to be prepared.

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Mollyripkin - the vets was Davies & Aylott, Bournemouth Road, Chandler's Ford. Several of the vets there have their own chickens although it is an urban practice. The RSPCA practice in Shirley Rd, Southampton which someone pointed me to only offers support to people on benefits.

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