My sweet Big Bird is paralyzed

[FloorCandy]

I went out to work in the yard and I saw one of my first girls, Big Bird, laying on her side not moving. I took her out and she can’t move her legs, it seems she can move the hip joint, but nothing below. I took her inside and I’ve been hand watering her, and I put a pile of food by her face, and I’ve seen her eat some (it’s the pricey stuff I feed the snow angels, which they all prefer to my cheaper general feed). She has a big gash on her head, so I assume she hit the top hard. It’s only 2 feet 3 inches, I’ve never had any of them hit hard enough to get paralyzed. Since she’s my daughters favorite, and she seems comfortable in her hospital bin, I’ve decided to watch her and hope. I’ve put some nutridrench in the water I’m giving her, and I gave her some vitamin e. If she hasn’t improved by the weekend, we will cull her with the extra boys this week, and I’ll put another tux in the hospital bin and tell my little girl she recovered, and we can put her back outside. Hopefully she won’t notice.

Send her your prayers and well wishes please, why couldn’t it be any other random bird in the pen, beside the one she loves? Big Bird eats from our hands and pecks us if we don’t have food.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Get well soon BB!

 

[MadamContrary]

I went out to work in the yard and I saw one of my first girls, Big Bird, laying on her side not moving. I took her out and she can’t move her legs, it seems she can move the hip joint, but nothing below. I took her inside and I’ve been hand watering her, and I put a pile of food by her face, and I’ve seen her eat some (it’s the pricey stuff I feed the snow angels, which they all prefer to my cheaper general feed). She has a big gash on her head, so I assume she hit the top hard. It’s only 2 feet 3 inches, I’ve never had any of them hit hard enough to get paralyzed. Since she’s my daughters favorite, and she seems comfortable in her hospital bin, I’ve decided to watch her and hope. I’ve put some nutridrench in the water I’m giving her, and I gave her some vitamin e. If she hasn’t improved by the weekend, we will cull her with the extra boys this week, and I’ll put another tux in the hospital bin and tell my little girl she recovered, and we can put her back outside. Hopefully she won’t notice.

Send her your prayers and well wishes please, why couldn’t it be any other random bird in the pen, beside the one she loves? Big Bird eats from our hands and pecks us if we don’t have food.

I'm so sorry! My daughter's favorite bird was also our first one to be injured, and then at the beginning of spring some stray dogs literally chewed though our wooden fence and then chewed through the quail pens and killed all our birds in the backyard. Thankfully I had some of thier offspring in the brooders in a separate area. My daughter was happy to at least have some of Smore's babies and now grandchildren. We stopped naming them though, trying not to get too attached

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Have you given her electrolytes in her water? There was a paralyzed quail a few months ago that made a full recovery within 2 days of being given electrolyte water

 

[FloorCandy]

I'm so sorry! My daughter's favorite bird was also our first one to be injured, and then at the beginning of spring some stray dogs literally chewed though our wooden fence and then chewed through the quail pens and killed all our birds in the backyard. Thankfully I had some of thier offspring in the brooders in a separate area. My daughter was happy to at least have some of Smore's babies and now grandchildren. We stopped naming them though, trying not to get too attached

Out of about 60 adults, we only have 5-6 with names. 3 males and 2 of our first Ladies. If something happened to Tiger Millionaire, I have no other pharaoh tuxes to trick the kids with, so I’m thinking I should keep one of the chicks.

 

[FloorCandy]

Have you given her electrolytes in her water? There was a paralyzed quail a few months ago that made a full recovery within 2 days of being given electrolyte water

I’ve been giving her nutridrench in the water.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Have you tried water physio? Not sure if it works in this situation but it's just an idea

 

[FloorCandy]

I'm so sorry! My daughter's favorite bird was also our first one to be injured, and then at the beginning of spring some stray dogs literally chewed though our wooden fence and then chewed through the quail pens and killed all our birds in the backyard. Thankfully I had some of thier offspring in the brooders in a separate area. My daughter was happy to at least have some of Smore's babies and now grandchildren. We stopped naming them though, trying not to get too attached

I had a neighbor at a previous house who had a dog that chewed thru their fence then smashed thru and attacked my sharpei several years ago. The jerk acted like it was our fault his dog broke the fence because it wanted to kill my dogs. He’s lucky the sharpei met the challenge and not my English bulldog or his dog would have gotten it way worse than it did, and I’m lucky it wasn’t my pug who got targeted.

 

[FloorCandy]

Have you tried water physio? Not sure if it works in this situation but it's just an idea

I’ve never heard of this for birds. I’m going to look into it. Thx.

 

[Ravenlover]

I went out to work in the yard and I saw one of my first girls, Big Bird, laying on her side not moving. I took her out and she can’t move her legs, it seems she can move the hip joint, but nothing below. I took her inside and I’ve been hand watering her, and I put a pile of food by her face, and I’ve seen her eat some (it’s the pricey stuff I feed the snow angels, which they all prefer to my cheaper general feed). She has a big gash on her head, so I assume she hit the top hard. It’s only 2 feet 3 inches, I’ve never had any of them hit hard enough to get paralyzed. Since she’s my daughters favorite, and she seems comfortable in her hospital bin, I’ve decided to watch her and hope. I’ve put some nutridrench in the water I’m giving her, and I gave her some vitamin e. If she hasn’t improved by the weekend, we will cull her with the extra boys this week, and I’ll put another tux in the hospital bin and tell my little girl she recovered, and we can put her back outside. Hopefully she won’t notice.

Send her your prayers and well wishes please, why couldn’t it be any other random bird in the pen, beside the one she loves? Big Bird eats from our hands and pecks us if we don’t have food.

Good luck