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there are lots. o chickens without otter toes. feathered legs are common to have rudimentary toes. I have have had a few in my Marans. it will be fine.

I have a MF Leghorn that lost its foot...it has never figured out how to walk I need to cull it but it is a MFL......I need it. but I think it has to be done.

How much of his leg is left? I bet that I could make him a prosthetic that would work if he has enough of a stump to affix it. I think with using bamboo and silicon calking to cushion between the stump and the bamboo would work. The trick would be to fasten it in a way that doesn't restrict blood flow. That I would have to see the amputation to figure out. It might not work for the long term but if it can restore him enough for a breeding season then you can hatch his replacement.

I am currently working with a kitten that got slammed in a door (in the dark) that I had to amputate one foot and the toes from the other foot. He is still not healed so it is too soon to make his prosthetic. I had a goat that jumped a fence in the storm and caught his foot in the fence and ruined it and I had to have the vet amputate the leg at the hock. I worked out how to use rattan and silicon to give him a prosthetic. But before I could implement the idea he got in a shoving match with his buddy Abram the ram and was cast upside down and couldn't rise without the missing foot. I rescued him before he died but it was too late he had been upside down too long. (That will cause the circulation to fail in the four stomachs and organs and cause tissue death.)

PM me if you want to try. I am over in Goodlettsville/Millersville.
 
he lost from the ankle down....really just the foot. I don't know that he can be fixed. he holds that leg off to one side and the other one is off the other way. would not surprised me to find him dead today. I did think about some sort of foot thing. I have seen birds on here that get by with one leg but he is not..
 
he lost from the ankle down....really just the foot. I don't know that he can be fixed. he holds that leg off to one side and the other one is off the other way. would not surprised me to find him dead today. I did think about some sort of foot thing. I have seen birds on here that get by with one leg but he is not..

How long has he been footless?
 
he lost from the ankle down....really just the foot. I don't know that he can be fixed. he holds that leg off to one side and the other one is off the other way. would not surprised me to find him dead today. I did think about some sort of foot thing. I have seen birds on here that get by with one leg but he is not..
I had a parakeet that lost his foot below the hock, the vet was able to leave enough of a skin pad and put a small piece of bone from the shattered lower leg as an 'end' for the bone to grow over. he lived a good long fertile life as a pegleg... it just took him a while to adjust to not having a foot on the one leg... and a canary too, now that I think about it... he lost his as a baby tho so never knew any different.
 
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there are lots. o chickens without otter toes. feathered legs are common to have rudimentary toes. I have have had a few in my Marans. it will be fine.

I have a MF Leghorn that lost its foot...it has never figured out how to walk I need to cull it but it is a MFL......I need it. but I think it has to be done.

could you do some AI before you cull him? Then at least maybe you could hatch some chicks....
 
Everyone else hatched and and they were fine. They are all active and not missing any other parts. I was worried about 2 of them but they perked right up after some Save-A-Chick and heat. So far, I have 12 out of 14 hatched. One is still in the shell. I candled it and can still see it moving. Maybe it will make an appearance tomorrow. The other seems to be a dud.
 
Oh oh oh!! I so hope he got in contact with them - they may throw the eggs thinking they're bad since peafowl take 28 days
But that is very funny.
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hey, I'd be happy for getting peafowl eggs! (But our neighbors, not so much.... Haha)

Yeah i'd have them too but i have been banned by the rest of my family because they are so noisy.. :(.... gotta wait until those kids
move out LOL!!!
 

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