amputation

This is Alligator Bob. He is brave, smart, handsome, a doer of valorous deeds and much more interesting than Boo, the World’s Cutest Dog. At any rate, poor Bobbie has had a relatively slight penis prolapse for about a month. For a while, I was just keeping an eye on it, applying hydrocortisone...

We have two silkie hens who are currently co-raising two chicks together (also silkies). Yesterday I heard a chick screaming and ran in to find one hen walking around with a baby stuck to her, flopping the chick around as she moved. I grabbed him, ripped him off the Mom, and raced him inside to...

I really need help don't know what to do next, thinking amputation but the vet is not available. If anybody knows a way to go about this please help. I've made more posts about my rooster with more information, but not much help as far as medical treatment for his foot. Here are the most recent...

I really need help don't know what to do next, thinking amputation but the vet is not available. If anybody knows a way to go about this please help. I've made more posts about my rooster with more information, but not much help as far as medical treatment for his foot. I try and dress him...

One of our girls was attacked night before last. The culprit was not caught. But we suspect a raccoon got ahold of her. She been bitten really bad on her thigh. I’m not sure if the leg is broken or dislocated or if it’s from the bite itself but it’s completely immobile. She doesn’t flinch or...

So last night i was at a farm helping out with some horses when I noticed a little cockerel sleeping nearby. As I got near him he tried to run away but his leg was dragging behind him. I caught him and they gave him to me for free. His leg was infected so I drained it and wrapped it. This...

I got a chick that hatched with no neurological movement in the leg. I move the leg, it quickly goes back. I grab my chick so its back is against the palm of my hand. So the chick is straight up and down. I put my finger on the pad of the foot & push the leg towards the keel. When the foot...

I saw lil' Pepper at work and his foot looked a bit off. I ended up taking him home and determined he had curled toe paralysis. I tried the bandaid and cardboard splits; I even ended up getting a 3d printed splint. Despite trying to correct his foot for the last 2 months he has gradually gotten...

I have visited my parents and I have noticed that one of their chickens has a swollen leg. They said they noticed it last week and have added apple cider vinegar to the water and also treated the whole leg with betadine. She is eating her laying pellets and vegetables, drinking and pooping...

Hey y’all. My poor little olive egger pullet got taken by a fox, but he was interrupted in the act and dropped her. Although she has no visible wounds (blood, puncture), she has completely lost the use of one leg. This happened about 4 days ago. I thought for sure that she wouldn’t make it. Her...

One of our chicks hatched with a clubbed foot, all his toes curved sideways causing him to walk on the inside top of the foot. He is half the size of the rest of his brood mates even though he eats and drinks he is not growing . He peeps constantly day and night, unless he is being held- this...

hello! please please help!! i was given a silkie chick for free yesterday at my local farm because she has either a broken leg or a slipped achilles with a twisted foot. a vet visit would be upwards of $200. I'm wondering if I can stint it, amputate it...just fix it myself so she can live. she...

last week, my 3 month old was attacked maybe by a skunk maybe by a fellow hen since we just introduced a new one the day before. I caught a skunk and noticed the baby wasn’t coming out. I noticed her leg was broken. I attempted to splint it and wrapped it and kept her in a crate. I didn’t expect...

1) What type of bird , age and weight Female Muscovy duck, 5 weeks old, 2lbs 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She's acting normally, rests more often but is foraging when I let her stretch her legs. Eating and drinking, socializing with her siblings 3) How long has the bird been exhibiting...

Hello, about two or three weeks ago one of our buff orphington hens hatched a chick of her own kind and an adopted egg from our barred rock hen. Sadly two other chickens didn't make it out of their eggs, but such is life. The underwear chick was healthy but I found the barred chick crawling in...

There was a duck local to me posted online (broody girl, raccoon attack, you get the picture) many people said to cull her but I stepped up and took her, I didn't think her injuries were so horrible and took her to the vet but since the raccoon didn't rip her leg off at the joint she needed...

i have a 1.5 year old Peking duck who has had a chronic infection in his knee joint for several months now. After several visits to the vet, we are now looking at amputating his leg. He has been on antibiotics and meds for the swelling. I'm wondering if anyone else has done this and what the...