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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    I guess I should call a vet and see what they suggest. It may be amputation? Can't keep him inside forever, he is eating and drinking well and good circulation in foot but the leg swings sideways
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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    and he managed to get himself out of his sling for the evening and I just let him. I'm probably going to let him figure things out on his own tomorrow. I'm afraid he will never walk well and I don't think it can be fixed
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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    time will have to tell. I have a $1500 rabbit who is a mutt bunny that hurt her eye, and I managed to pay that bill off a couple of years ago. but yes he will heal in some fashion or not and time will tell. The day he did this I was going to be gone 12 hours the next day, If I don't work there...
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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    I am afraid we are on the home vet theory, I am barely making the bills. he may never walk pretty or fast, but I can't do a $1000 chicken. Sorry to disappoint. I didn't cull him, he's eating well, does good hobbles which are painful to watch, drinking well, excreting well and confined to a...
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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    He launched off the top of the dog crate in the run and probably caught his foot in the wire fencing that runs from there over the younger chick's pen (which is dog crate and its little front "yard") Dislocating hip, and then I think he got the joint where foot meets leg trying to get around...
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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    he can't control it at the hip, he has movement and flips it around til he gets where he's going in his little dog crate. Or he did until this morning. Now we are going to see if keeping it in a good position will let it heal.
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    Hen Blind and Not Eating On Own After Coyote Attack--Advice?

    I have a blind hen, cataracts both eyes. When she goes off her fed I pop a methyl b12 pill down her throat and she's fine for a month or 2, been blind for almost 2 years. I was doing eye drops but could not save her vision.
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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    Ok, I have a good splint on my little gold roo's "knee" well joint where foot meets lower leg. However he is out at the hip. I've been advised to get his weight off that leg, both legs, by making a swing for him in a dog crate, and I am trying to do that this morning, where food and water are...
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    Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

    I'm a long time Unitarian Universalist. We come in many religious flavors but we don't proselytize. 7 principles, no dogma
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    Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

    but it is a fast moving thread. I don't have time to read it all
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    It's not a super emergency, he's eating and drinking well and I made him a cardboard boot yesterday that worked so well he took off running. I think he will be ok. I followed a search looking for diy splint and it led me here. sorry if I'm off topic
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    First cardboard splint was a fail but when I made him a cardboard boot splint that went up above the joint he got mad at me and took off so I guess that one worked pretty well
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    so I found some tongue depressors, but cardboard would be better? I have that. Tackling it in the morning, too tired tonight. He's eating and drinking well but can't put weight on leg yet. He tries and it gives way under him.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I wondered how to make a chicken splint. I wonder how fast those can be ordered...
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    Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

    Those eggs and bunnies are pagan fertility symbols, lol. I dropped out many years ago
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