On 12-0295, KATHY JOHNSON wrote to TOM WEISS:
 TW> BTW, my AG pair have given me a chick
 KJ> WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
'Tis true.  Tinker was born Thanksgiving day ... one fertile egg of four egg 
total on the second clutch of the year.
[Macho image on/OFF]
Can you just imagine?! The tears of joy nearly came ...
 KJ> Boy, have *I* missed some mail packets someplace! Congratulations,
 KJ> grandpa! It's about time!
Gee, thanks Kathy.  We all must be missing mail.  My FIDO PARROTS echo has 
been sparse.  [Macho image ON/off]  And, I AIN'T NO GRANDPA (yet) MISSY!!
 KJ> When I asked for suggestions on increasing their fertility, he
 KJ> suggested many (expensive) solutions ... some of which Dr.
 KJ> Musselmann (Auburn, MI) had performed.
 KJ> I'd be interested to hear what he suggested--we are still having
 KJ> some fertility problems with Rio & Paco (even tho their last clutch
 KJ> had 3 fertile eggs, only one made it to hatch).
The expensive solutions centered mostly on the 'male'.  For starters he 
wanted to do a complete blood work-up and complete cultures in search of 
unspecified diseases, husbandry practices revisited, then surgery for the 
'scopeing'.
The final step was to replace the male.  He thought re-pairing should not be 
a concern ...
 KJ> Hey, good client-vet relationships make more money in the long term,
Tell that to my car mechanic ... sigh ...
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