Cheyman_coldman
Chirping
- Mar 24, 2020
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Okay a little bit of a longish story. We had some neighbors that had free range guinea fowl, neighbors passed away and birds were abandoned to roam free. Slowing the flock started to dwindle until there were only 3 left and they migrated into my flock of chickens during the day. 2 ended up dying. Idk how but they did. So I’m left with one. It is not tame, it don’t let me get near it, and it definitely fights back. Well one day I noticed the one guinea was limping so I had to starve it a bit to get it to go in my chicken coop for food and was able to catch it after a lot of cuts, scrapes and scratches. Well it had a gross nasty slice across its leg so I cleaned it, put so much antibacterial cream on there and very lightly wrapped it so it could come off on its own since it’s almost impossible to catch. I continue to watch the guinea and see its progress from afar. It slowly starts putting more weight on it but the area of the cut is still swollen and white. Today I decided to catch it again, more scrapes, cuts and scratches later I have it and its leg looks HORRIBLE!!!! It’s walking on it mostly fine a little bit of a limp but not much. The white part of the leg is so incredibly hard. And it looks like there is maybe bone sticking out?!?! Its leg didn’t seem broken the first time I caught it and there was definitely no bone sticking out. There isn’t really a whole lot I can do for this bird but I guess I just want to know like what the heck is going on with its leg and will he be alright?