Fixing Chick's Curled Toes

[BantyChooks]

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[casportpony]

This one was a button quail, at that; I think it weighs a few grams at most. It's like splinting ant toes. I will get a photograph when I do their official photoshoot today.

I've seen baby buttons and cannot imagine fixing toes on them!

 

[casportpony]

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Dang, so small! Good job fixing them!

 

[BantyChooks]

Dang, so small! Good job fixing them!

Here's hoping they look better when I take the bandages off.

 

[Shadrach]

I just attempted to fix curled toes on a button quail. I used a very small rectangle cut out of a bandaid. I'm not sure that I got the toes exactly right, but we'll see how it goes.

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That just looks hilarious to me.
Poor little fecker.

 

[BantyChooks]

That just looks hilarious to me.
Poor little fecker.

I'm guessing the bandages make up a fourth of his weight! He bounces around surprisingly fast for how ungainly he appears.

I didn't get any images of his feet before they were wrapped, but they looked pretty bad—poor thing. His ankles were rotated inwards and to the side. At least now he's making contact on the right area of his foot.

 

[casportpony]

Here's hoping they look better when I take the bandages off.

One of the other ones I did was a fail. I really should have looked at the pictures when I took them because I could have fixed it.

 

[casportpony]

I'm guessing the bandages make up a fourth of his weight! He bounces around surprisingly fast for how ungainly he appears.

I didn't get any images of his feet before they were wrapped, but they looked pretty bad—poor thing. His ankles were rotated inwards and to the side. At least now he's making contact on the right area of his foot.

I've seen those a couple of times and wondered how hard they would be to fix.

 

[BantyChooks]

One of the other ones I did was a fail. I really should have looked at the pictures when I took them because I could have fixed it.

That's a bummer. I would have liked to get this one's toes more aligned, but once his skin hit the sticky part it was difficult to reposition safely.

 

[BantyChooks]

This one also hatched with curled toes, but they seem to still be improving somewhat so I'm not sure I want to go to the risk of putting tape on his feet just to fix something that would be purely cosmetic in nature if it sticks around at all.