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I always appreciate when people update their health issue posts! So here's the latest on Janet and his leg injury. He still has a heavy limp but gets around really well. The injured leg twists inward somewhat, leading me to believe there was indeed a break somewhere very high up. Hindsight is...

I always appreciate when people update with outcomes on their injured birds - so I'll do that here! Janet is still on the mend. His injured foot was just dangling, floppy and useless, for long enough that I started making plans to let him go. He hated being in a sling and sleeping on the...

Fortunately he does seem to be improving, if slowly. Today he's able to curl the foot very slightly. He's also resting weight on it, which is new. I got a few photos, but not sure whether they're any help. They give a pretty good idea of his current range of self-motion. He's enough of a...

The fight was two weeks ago. He's showing incremental improvement, and can move the leg up, down, forward etc. He can't "make a fist" with his foot. No swelling or heat anywhere I can find along the limb. How do I check his hips - is there a specific test I should be doing? Based on where the...

Hi all - my three cockerels, who had lived peacefully til now, had a big fight. I blame avian flu lockdown combined with youth and spring hormones. In the course of the fight the gentlest of the three, a young Dark Brahma named Janet, suffered a leg injury of some kind in addition to the usual...