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Chirping
I have a Female chicken one year old, average size. Cross between brown leghorn roo and either a red sex link or a brown lohman mum.
It's displaying normal behaviour except, dragging it's left hand primaries on the ground to the extent of tripping on them sometimes. It's refusing to use or move it's left wing. The whole wing from the shoulder seems to have 'drooped' down the side of the body.
This was noticed 3 days ago
There's no visible or palpable injury I can tell apart from maybe a little swelling, and wing articulation feels 'sloppier' than the other side. The only thing I haven't had a good feel for yet is a broken wishbone. The main wing bones feel intact end to end.
I didn't witness whatever occurred to cause it. No other issues in the rest of the flock like fox attacks etc.
The bird is eating and drinking normally, water, grain, mealworm, seeds, corn
It's doing normal poo & laying an egg daily
Treatment so far since it was noticed has been, strapping the wing up into normal position with vet wrap & isolation in a big parrot cage, with daily visits by the other 9 birds in the flock
I'm hoping to treat the bird myself at home if poss. It's only been 3 days, but I fancy maybe when I've been changing the vet wrap each day, the wing is perhaps hanging slightly higher each time but that could be wishful thinking.
Could the wishbone be broken? Is there a home fix for that?
It's displaying normal behaviour except, dragging it's left hand primaries on the ground to the extent of tripping on them sometimes. It's refusing to use or move it's left wing. The whole wing from the shoulder seems to have 'drooped' down the side of the body.
This was noticed 3 days ago
There's no visible or palpable injury I can tell apart from maybe a little swelling, and wing articulation feels 'sloppier' than the other side. The only thing I haven't had a good feel for yet is a broken wishbone. The main wing bones feel intact end to end.
I didn't witness whatever occurred to cause it. No other issues in the rest of the flock like fox attacks etc.
The bird is eating and drinking normally, water, grain, mealworm, seeds, corn
It's doing normal poo & laying an egg daily
Treatment so far since it was noticed has been, strapping the wing up into normal position with vet wrap & isolation in a big parrot cage, with daily visits by the other 9 birds in the flock
I'm hoping to treat the bird myself at home if poss. It's only been 3 days, but I fancy maybe when I've been changing the vet wrap each day, the wing is perhaps hanging slightly higher each time but that could be wishful thinking.
Could the wishbone be broken? Is there a home fix for that?