Tell me about your Avian vet situation!

[Mona]

Here in Seattle, our avian vets seem to runneth over:

I go to an avian certifed vet: Dr. Tracey Bennett but we also have at least four other avian certified vets in the Seattle area (all different clinics): Dr. Onoratti, Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Johnson-Delaney, Dr. Darrell Kraft (He has a mobile vet clinic) We also have good, experienced vets that are not avian cerified: Dr. Schaefer, Dr. Kamaka...A few that I know....and more.....

Pretty lucky, huh?

thx

Mona

[CheekyandMalolo]

I must be a bit spoiled, we have an Avian Vet about 15 minutes from us(in Scoresby, Vic for the Aussie people on here), it's a brilliant place, lovely people. And it does just birds. There's also a tonne of Vet's around my area, and my horse's vet also occasionally has an Avian Vet visit.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I guess I shouldn't complain... they certainly exist within what would seem like a reasonable radius in miles. My frustration is that none are in an "easy commute" direction from my local area and given the vagaries of traffic they could be impossibly far away in an emergency. But I think I'm pretty happy with the vet we have, even though she's not an avians-only practice. She keeps birds, she knows birds, she handles them well... at least as far as we can tell...

[snakesentwined]

We took Isis to her first visit with our vet last week - he's in a general practice, but is specialist in avian medicine - and was recommended by several people, including the breeder we got Isis from. Luckily, he's just the other side of town from us and only a 15min drive.

He was incredibly helpful and wonderfuly complimentary about both Isis' condition and our husbandry (lots of brownie points for organic pellets, big cage, lots of interaction, free-flight - and almost excessive amounts of research and reading ). It's a relief to know there's someone so close for regular check-ups and possible emergencies.

[Anna]

We have an avian vet about 1,5 hours away. There are like 5 avian vets in the whole country, so I´m happy I have one not too far away.

[marie83]

Dragging an old thread up I know but I thought it was interesting and may be of use to newer members here or people looking for one.

My birds have not been to a vet before. Avian vet is very rare in my country. The closest avian vet in my area is probably 20km away. And we don't send birds for check up in my country. That's why nobody wants to be an avian vet.

20km is really not that far, I've ran further than that (21.1km). Of course I wouldn't suggest running to a vet but keeping some emergancy cash on hand for a taxi is a much more realistic option.

Our vet is about an hour away, there are a couple a bit nearer but I didn't feel confident in them. These aren't "qualified" but are experienced in treating birds and current vet surgery has its own emergancy service which seems to be a rare thing these days, all the vets round here tend to ship you off to Sheffield PDSA outside hours.
I believe the nearest "qualified" vet is a good 2 hours from here with the others coming in at around the 3 hour mark.