Hamster? Gerbil?

I've just gotten home from our vet feeling all warm and fuzzy inside after taking a chicken worth 50p at best for a £14 treatment. She was just tired, it seems
But before everyone says I should have just wrung her scraggy little neck, I'll justify my expenditure by saying she came from a battery cage on saturday and has a few good years in her yet. If she'd been old, I'd have asked a local farmer to neck her, but she's only 72 weeks of age.

Many of my shop customers have bought cheap puppies only to have to spend hundreds or even thousands on them within weeks - but they never sue the breeders or consider putting the pet down and getting a healthy one. Personally, I say if you're daft enough to buy an ill-bred type, it's your own fault, but that's just me.

Anyway, at what point would you say no to possibly high vet fees? I've got a strict five hundred quid on the horses and any value at all on the dogs. Hens are about thity quid each. My partner is nothing at all :