Dislocated turkey wing

[starting.from.scratch]

Don't tempt me! I think turkeys are so cute! (But then, I never thought I'd ever own a pug, and she's my sweet baby rescue (of many), she's so beautiful...ahem, to me...

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I could just imagine my neighbors if I was like, Yeah, the chicken thing's going ok...would you like some turkey eggs?

 

[threehorses]

An Update!

I finally got pictures from my phone.

In the mean time, Ella is now let loose of her bath tub hospital, had the temperature acclimation time outside, and now runs and plays with her "brother" and two "sisters". I'll have to get a current photo but wanted to show some of the photos from what happened.

Here's the blissful moment of peace literally just hours before her dislocation:

The next morning, Ella on my lap at the animal clinic waiting for the doctor to come back in. (She decided to sit on my lap and broke my heart, thinking I might be about to lose her). Bye bye wing.

Ella, day 1, in the bathroom hospital

A little closer. The "slit" is actually just the space between her big thigh muscle (bottom pink part) and her stump (top bump)

This was the second day after the amputation. You can't see how black it was here, but it was scary. The top "bump" is her stump, the lower "bump" is a big "blister" where the air from her bone is leaking into her skin and swelling and bruising it.

From this point, everything started to shrink after 2 days - sort of like a pink/black balloon, wrinkles and all. Kind of neat - since it was going away!

Oh and one more - who could say "no" to a face like this?

Recent photos upcoming.

 

[AmyBella]

Wow! Thanks for posting this. I am delighted that she is well and back with her birdie family. She really has a sweet, pretty face! My little Sweetie Pie is also doing great. She does not have a lot of mobility in the hurt wing, but that doesn't slow her down. Believe it or not, she can still fly a short distance!

 

[threehorses]

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Awww SweetiePie!

Yeah you know, I'm really surprised at how resilient birds can be - it seems to be either that they're really strong, or they decide not to heal doesn't it? I'm glad your SweetiePie decided to live and still fly a bit! that's pretty great.

 

[mypicklebird]

Not that this helps now, but if you ever need to medicate a turkey again... I found it much easier for mine to use pills- I put the pills in to a cheddar cheese ball and stuck that in the back of his mouth- and he swallowed it like a champ. All he tasted was cheese. After a few days of that- I would put the cheese ball in the palm of my hand and he would grab it and gulp it down. Most antibiotics from the vet come in both a liquid and pill formulation. Metacam doesn't, but the oral is pretty concentrated- and might work in a cheese ball with a hole in the center. Compounded baytril into a tastier liquid form (but more dilute) makes it harder for you to get all of it in- most flings around & dribbles out in birds. Some vets will compound in hospital with the really concentrated stuff 100mg/ml instead of the 22mg/ml dog/cat stuff- and then you have less liquid to give.

 

[threehorses]

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Ohh my gosh, I'd have loved to have known that! Seriously - she had such a huge gullet - it's be easier to do the pills for sure. I'm going to start asking for a smaller amount of antibiotic or the pill next time I do turkeys. At least yes - the metacam was a tiny bit. It was the Baytril that was a nightmare. I was cursing the 2 cc dosage, wishing it was 1/4th a cc like the metacam was! Then at least I could make a pill out of something - cheese, baby cereal, egg yolk with the med..

She still thinks my fingertips are a treat after all that mess.