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Hope all had a Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for all the well wishes for Sweetie. I'm changing her bandages every other day and so far it looks as if it is healing well. There has been no sign of infection and the skin where I closed it together at the end of the stump seems to be healing and holding. I'm continuing to keep her isolated so that she can eat and drink all that she wants. That was always part of the problem, that she couldn't get to food and water. She and the hen whose back I sewed up are now in a hutch together. I put them together last night after cleaning out the coop. I figured both must be lonely and so far they aren't fighting. The hen with the sewn up back has her feathers already growing back. I'm hoping Sweetie's wing and tail feathers will grow back. She had worn them down to knubs using them as balance. So far the only thing that concerns me is that she still doesn't seem to be able to get up on one leg like she used to be able to do. She still struggles a lot before she can get her balance and get up on that one leg. I'm hoping it's mostly because she is in a cage and can't get the space she would need and that she will get better once released and can learn to walk without the wayward leg and claw that grabbed onto everything.
Again, this was a last attempt to save her life. If she can't learn to walk or get around I will have to cull her. I just can't stand to see her flopping around and tangled up in something. One night, before the amputation, it was dark and cold and pouring down rain and Sweetie wasn't in the coop. I made several attempts in the dark, in the rain, with a flashlight, looking for her. I knew she couldn't have gone far. After making what I called my final search I found her with her bad foot tangled up in some vines, in a flooded mud puddle under some bushes, just about to drown. That's how I knew I had to do something one way or the other. I pray that this works and I can later post pictures of Sweetie back out freeranging with the rest like she did when she was younger.
Again, this was a last attempt to save her life. If she can't learn to walk or get around I will have to cull her. I just can't stand to see her flopping around and tangled up in something. One night, before the amputation, it was dark and cold and pouring down rain and Sweetie wasn't in the coop. I made several attempts in the dark, in the rain, with a flashlight, looking for her. I knew she couldn't have gone far. After making what I called my final search I found her with her bad foot tangled up in some vines, in a flooded mud puddle under some bushes, just about to drown. That's how I knew I had to do something one way or the other. I pray that this works and I can later post pictures of Sweetie back out freeranging with the rest like she did when she was younger.
