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Crowing
A wormhole?
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You know, like a tear in the space / time continuum?
It's really weird, I keep hearing about people feeding their chicks high protein feed until they are a year old without having any problems! I will hatch another pretty chicks like him next summer, hopefully, as long as my bronze silver pied chicks are doing well I'm fine LOLIt looks like you managed to stop the rotation, but it also looks like he probably doesn't get much good use out of it. The protein and overfeeding thing is funny, some people can feed super high protein and have no leg problems and others have them. I did as much research as I could last summer and there wasn't all that much out there. Twisted Tibia is more common in heavier bodied birds like broiler chickens, emus, etc..... I found one common thing, nobody knows why it happens to some birds and not others, but all agree slowing growth seems to eliminate its occurrence. I put this together with the fact that my incubated chicks grow much faster than my hen raised chicks, but both end up equal in size by adulthood. My hen raised ones never had a single leg problem in 20 years of breeding. I learned my lesson as well, I don't envy you being in this position. He is such a bright eyed and pretty bird otherwise.
I tried almost everything since he was young, i took him to a vet who also told me it can't be treated, mainly because he get older, he is almost 4 months now, the other two who get better were younger.@q8peafowl , your guy is such a cutie, I hope you can find another treatment for him.
I'm not sure what @DylansMom 's treatment was, was it this one?
http://www.aussieslivingsimply.com.au/forum/discussion/20755/chickens-help
If not, maybe you can give it a try even though he is older?
Or, I wonder if anything here might be helpful?
http://www.voy.com/194762/459.html
@q8peafowl , your guy is such a cutie, I hope you can find another treatment for him.
I'm not sure what @DylansMom 's treatment was, was it this one?
http://www.aussieslivingsimply.com.au/forum/discussion/20755/chickens-help
If not, maybe you can give it a try even though he is older?
Or, I wonder if anything here might be helpful?
http://www.voy.com/194762/459.html
By the way Rodger looks great now
Quote: Maybe you could try putting him in a sling and anti-inflammatory like Meloxicam? If just a sling doesn't work, maybe you could try a splint and a sling? Has the leg started to rotate yet?
-Kathy