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Bird Insurance
Topic Started: Sep 5 2011, 09:58 AM (391 Views)
Jan	Sep 5 2011, 09:58 AM Post #1
staff member Posts: 3,554 Group: Staff Member #1,157 Joined: November 18, 2007 How many Parrotlets do you have 3 What types Celestial What colours Blue & Green+Green Dominant Pied, Other Birds ? Zippi & Drummer Cockatiels I live in Wales uk My name is Jan	Im wondering does anyone have good reasonabley priced insurance on their birds? It would save pounds.. maybe when they are ill ect
scooby	Sep 5 2011, 10:57 AM Post #2
Admin Posts: 4,477 Group: Admin Member #1,461 Joined: December 10, 2007 How many Parrotlets do you have 7 What types celestial What colours 3 green, 1 blue, 1 pastel blue,1 yellow, 1 albino Other Birds ? Meyers parrot, Gcc ,blue fischer lovebird,2 fischer lovebirds,2 mountain parakeet,2 budgies I live in York My name is Jacqueline ( jackie for short)	I don't at the moment, but i am thinking about it, there is a thread somewhere with a reasonable insurance price on it i asked a member once, i will see if i can find it
Ann	Sep 5 2011, 06:24 PM Post #3
Member Posts: 190 Group: Full Members Member #3,433 Joined: July 10, 2011 How many Parrotlets do you have one What types pacific What colours lutino I live in London My name is Ann	Hi there, I have insurance for Solar to cover vets fees etc. There is an excess of £35 per treatment. The company is Exotic Direct and it works out at about £73 per year.
bakewell	Sep 5 2011, 07:43 PM Post #4
staff member Posts: 1,887 Group: Staff Member #3,272 Joined: August 12, 2010 How many Parrotlets do you have 24 What types 14 green-rumps, 6 Spectacleds , 4 celestials What colours Greens, whites, blues Other Birds ? 1 Lorikeets, 2 Nyasa Lb's, 7 mountain parakeets, 2 plumheads, 2 crimson b'conure, 2 Maddies, finches I live in Wales <3 My name is Hayley	if I insured everyone it would cost me a foooortuuuune!!! LOL :24:
Ann	Sep 5 2011, 11:28 PM Post #5
Member Posts: 190 Group: Full Members Member #3,433 Joined: July 10, 2011 How many Parrotlets do you have one What types pacific What colours lutino I live in London My name is Ann	Maybe it would be worth enquiring, it may be cheaper insuring a flock for example than an individual bird. They are nice people to talk to and they would give you a quote, but methinks you would need a big bank book! nodding
Jan	Sep 6 2011, 08:51 AM Post #6
staff member Posts: 3,554 Group: Staff Member #1,157 Joined: November 18, 2007 How many Parrotlets do you have 3 What types Celestial What colours Blue & Green+Green Dominant Pied, Other Birds ? Zippi & Drummer Cockatiels I live in Wales uk My name is Jan	Thanks Ann seems not too bad in price arond £1.40 per week.
bakewell	Sep 6 2011, 10:10 AM Post #7
staff member Posts: 1,887 Group: Staff Member #3,272 Joined: August 12, 2010 How many Parrotlets do you have 24 What types 14 green-rumps, 6 Spectacleds , 4 celestials What colours Greens, whites, blues Other Birds ? 1 Lorikeets, 2 Nyasa Lb's, 7 mountain parakeets, 2 plumheads, 2 crimson b'conure, 2 Maddies, finches I live in Wales <3 My name is Hayley	That is a good price Jan! Oh yeah Ann big balance would definatly be needed!
scooby	Sep 6 2011, 03:08 PM Post #8
Admin Posts: 4,477 Group: Admin Member #1,461 Joined: December 10, 2007 How many Parrotlets do you have 7 What types celestial What colours 3 green, 1 blue, 1 pastel blue,1 yellow, 1 albino Other Birds ? Meyers parrot, Gcc ,blue fischer lovebird,2 fischer lovebirds,2 mountain parakeet,2 budgies I live in York My name is Jacqueline ( jackie for short)	this insurance sounds ok to me http://www.goldenvalleyinsurance.co.uk/
egamar	Jan 12 2012, 06:07 PM Post #9
Newbie Posts: 3 Group: Full Members Member #3,452 Joined: August 26, 2011 How many Parrotlets do you have 2 What types Not sure yet: one is yellow, the other green & blue Other Birds ? 2 B&G Macaws, 1 LSC Cockatoo, 2 OW Amazons, 4 Hahns Macaws, 3 Budgies, 1 Dog I live in Midlands My name is egamar	I have all my birds insured by Exotics Direct (Braithwaites). I can insure 2 - 5 birds per policy for £85.50pa PER POLICY (last year's rates). This covers vet fees only NOT the value of the bird, not loss and reward fees and so on: just vet bills. The downside of this is twofold: a £35 excess AND the fee a vet charges for completing their form. You can't claim back the vet's fee from the insurers (which is daft, because it's the insurers who insist the vet complete a complicated form - but there we are). For a simple matter you'll never recover your money; for a medium complicated matter (say examination, anaesthesia & xray, then, sadly, euthanasia) you'll get maybe £40 back, depending obviously on what your vet charges; for a complicated matter with repeat bloods and stools etc or hospitalisation for treatment, the cost of insurance would be cheap indeed. . I'm sure there are folks (probably not here though) who weigh up the cost of treatment against the cost of the animal - but I'm not one of them. 'Self-insurance' is an option for a large flock - e.g. it costs me £250/year, so I've spent £1000 and got £40 back! But all I need is for one bird to get seriously sick and require in-patient treatment and I'd regret not having insurance, even if I could raid my savings. So, tight tho' things are, I think I'll be renewing again. They ARE very helpful, and it's easy to put birds on or take them off a policy or shuffle them around to keep a spread across multiple policies. You can do everything by email: enquiries@exoticdirect.co.uk. Oh - they also don't decline insurance as soon as a bird is ill. I had a budgie operated on to remove an obstruction from its crop and was able to insure the bird against anything except eating the same cotton thread from perches again!
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