Also - wouldn’t it make great sense for all no-kill shelters to keep chickens as a matter of course, anyway? Eggs are a great source of protein for dogs and cats that are off their feed due to stress or recovering from injury or illness.
$20K on Vet bills for CHICKENS? Zoykes. I have literally raised HUNDREDS of chickens from chicks to layers and have yet to take a single one to the vet - for anything. WTH are people doing to their chickens? They’re like the easiest, healthiest, self-contained critter there ever was. PLUS - they eat icky BUGS!
Chickens do not have wings anymore...wings are gone
The fact that free range chicken eat just about anything they come across amuses me. This include bugs, rocks, egg shells and animal feces. (and anything they happen to see)
There is a commercial that advertises that their free range chickens are best because they don’t eat animal parts or some such. The joke is on them
I think that $20K might include a lot of counseling and group therapy sessions. Being cooped up near a bunch of potential disease vectors can be stressful.
Only once I had to decapitate one - she was paralyzed and I had to put her out of her misery.
So by the time they die they're not much good for eating anyway - unless it's a SHTF situation.
I raised them one year for high school Ag. class. Sold them for the end of the year bbq.
Lol, that was my first thought. l I have never taken a chicken to the vet! Most things a chicken would come down with are easy to fix with OTC meds. City folks.
Soup!
You would kill an ailing chicken I expect.
These clowns would put it on life support.