Jelibaen
Songster
Hello everybody! Hope you are all doing well. If you arent, I hope it gets better and maybe this little mystery baby case will cheer you up a bit.
I give some of my duck eggs to schools in the area to hatch every spring for their classrooms. Last Friday, one of the teachers messaged me.
"Sooo we have a duck with an unusable 3rd leg lol"
My first reaction is of course, what the ****. Asked for some photos and lo and behold... (apologies if the photos are really big or really small, I am doing this on mobile.)
Yeah that looks like 3 legs!
I looked through the forums and most of the other cases of 3 legged birds didnt seem to do very well so I said we will see how it does overnight and fingers crossed its just the leg. Also depends on where the leg is attached if it will cause issues, if anything else has malformed or doubled, etc. So I didnt get my hopes up.
However, the next morning, it is doing well!
She sent a short clip of it and it can stand up and walk, though that leg doesnt seem to move at all. She decided to hold onto it over the weekend and will give it back with the rest of the babies when she returns them next week. The schools generally keep the chicks for two weeks for the students to play with and they end up being the friendliest birds ever.
So everyone, meet Cher (Chernobyl)
Her students named it Chernobyl because of the mutations that radiation damage causes. I thought it was hilarious!
I am excited to see how it grows and what happens. We do have an avian vet a few hours away that did Daisy's phallus amputation surgery last year (Daisy did great after surgery but passed away on Apr 1 because my geese decided to martyr him. The geese are rehomed now) so if this baby needs anything we can get it fixed. Hopefully when it is bigger!
I give some of my duck eggs to schools in the area to hatch every spring for their classrooms. Last Friday, one of the teachers messaged me.
"Sooo we have a duck with an unusable 3rd leg lol"
My first reaction is of course, what the ****. Asked for some photos and lo and behold... (apologies if the photos are really big or really small, I am doing this on mobile.)
Yeah that looks like 3 legs!
I looked through the forums and most of the other cases of 3 legged birds didnt seem to do very well so I said we will see how it does overnight and fingers crossed its just the leg. Also depends on where the leg is attached if it will cause issues, if anything else has malformed or doubled, etc. So I didnt get my hopes up.
However, the next morning, it is doing well!
She sent a short clip of it and it can stand up and walk, though that leg doesnt seem to move at all. She decided to hold onto it over the weekend and will give it back with the rest of the babies when she returns them next week. The schools generally keep the chicks for two weeks for the students to play with and they end up being the friendliest birds ever.
So everyone, meet Cher (Chernobyl)
Her students named it Chernobyl because of the mutations that radiation damage causes. I thought it was hilarious!
I am excited to see how it grows and what happens. We do have an avian vet a few hours away that did Daisy's phallus amputation surgery last year (Daisy did great after surgery but passed away on Apr 1 because my geese decided to martyr him. The geese are rehomed now) so if this baby needs anything we can get it fixed. Hopefully when it is bigger!
