Official BYC Poll: Special Needs Poultry

[casportpony]

I have a crossbeak, one recovering from wryneck, and one that had splay leg if that counts

Pictures? How are you treating the wry neck & splay leg?

 

[casportpony]

I have had a cross beaked hen. It was minor and she lived to 5&1/2 years old.

Did you do regular beak trims?

I have also had several that had crooked toes it caused minor limping but did not interfere with the bird being a bird.

I got some of those right now.

 

[rosemarythyme]

PIctures?

Bumblebee and Custard. They're pretty mild. Strangely both birds were/are my best layers.

Poor girl. What was the treatment?

Liquid Vit E and Vit B complex, plus selenium from BOSS, tuna and eggs. I don't really measure things, so a few drops of each vitamin were mixed into a small cup of FF twice a day.

Interesting, I don't think I've seen toes like that before.

Lol well it made me paranoid enough that now I ask to see a chick's feet as they're being pulled from the pullet bins, just so I can make sure I don't get another case like this.

Wow. I wonder what causes that. I think I remember seeing one of mine with something similar.

Not a clue. I included the chick photo so it's clear she had it from the start.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I have 4 currently. 1 pretty blind (we think she can still see light and shadows, but that's about it) and 3 with limb amputations (2 missing all or the majority of their toes amd 1 missing her lower leg)

 

[DaisyG2317]

My Welsummer, Farrah, has a weird crooked outer toe on each foot. She has had it since she was a little chick. She is going on 2 now

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I have 4 currently. 1 pretty blind (we think she can still see light and shadows, but that's about it) and 3 with limb amputations (2 missing all or the majority of their toes amd 1 missing her lower leg)

Oh. And a hen who hatched with something wrong with a foot. She couldn't walk right as a chick and when she was too heavy for that type of walking, she broke the toes in the bad foot

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

I have one with parrot beak , and my aunt has a cross beak

 

[Miss Lydia]

I've had some of those too.

Poor boy. That's dedication carrying him twice a day for three years. Was he able to move at all?

He could scoot around on the soft ground.

 

[fluffycrow]

I have one with parrot beak

Pictures ?

 

[casportpony]

I have had a few geriatric birds over 11-12 years old that as they aged could not roost and had to sleep on the floor, regular beak and claw trimmings, went blind, had arthritis and required a special diet, heat on frigid days, etc...

How did you accommodate the blindness? And how did you provide heat?

Had 2 birds that had strokes,

What were they like after the strokes?

this one had Congestive Heart Failure and I had to drain her belly every few days for a couple of months... My sweet Tillie...

She lost the use of her legs so she lived in this tub with towels to support her so she wouldn't fall over. Daily I brought her inside to clean her up and change her bedding. She got goodies for being such a good girl after her clean up, she'd get so excited when I opened up the treat bag she'd nearly squirm right out of her tub! She was a happy girl all the time regardless of her condition, eventually she did pass away. Broke my heart to pieces.

I have had a few geriatric birds over 11-12 years old that as they aged could not roost and had to sleep on the floor, regular beak and claw trimmings, went blind, had arthritis and required a special diet, heat on frigid days, etc...

Had 2 birds that had strokes, this one had Congestive Heart Failure and I had to drain her belly every few days for a couple of months... My sweet Tillie...
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She lost the use of her legs so she lived in this tub with towels to support her so she wouldn't fall over. Daily I brought her inside to clean her up and change her bedding. She got goodies for being such a good girl after her clean up, she'd get so excited when I opened up the treat bag she'd nearly squirm right out of her tub! She was a happy girl all the time regardless of her condition, eventually she did pass away. Broke my heart to pieces.

So sorry for your loss.