Rubb - A- Dub-Dub.......One Dirty Sebbi in a Tub.....His Story added..

[Lunachick]

How cute! Will he ever get the use of his legs back?

 

[silkiechick236]

What a sweet boy!

 

[chickenzoo]

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We don't think he will ever get full use back............ but he scoots and swims around just fine. : )

 

[MagsC]

What a cutie. I can tell he is loved!

 

[MotherDuck3r]

What is the story on this goose? How did he get lead poisoning and how did you come to take care of him?

 

[banter]

Poor baby! So glad he's getting good care-best of luck!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Hey, don't be blaming that dirty water on our Sebbi! We all know he's in water that you just got out of!

I often think of the life you've enabled him to have - with the chair sling, etc. And here you gave me a huge
smile thinking of him afloat in that tub. I bet he felt so weightless and free.

Give him a big kiss on the head for me!

 

[chickenzoo]

I got Sebastian and his sister Cybil ( Who has a deformed top beak) when they were babies. Sebastian was fine and I kept them off the ground for what seemed like forever. Cybil, I had to insert tubes in her nose because her beak turned upward so hard in closed her nostrils and her sinuses filled up. Over time her nostrils molded around the shape and I took the tubes out. When they were 3 months old I finally got up the nerve to let them spend the night outside...... not in their pen, I had been working up to that little by little. The next day after their night out, Sebastian seemed sulky. I kept an eye on him but by the end of the day he didn't look so hot. I gathered him and sister up and set up a large dog kennel and put them in. He started having trouble getting up and then stopped eating. I took him to my vet and he felt like he was impacted in his gut. He advised me to tube mineral oil and metamusal down him as well as tube feed him my handfeeding formula. I did that, and he hated it, but he improved after a week. I started him on Avi- Charge vitamins and his flock raiser but he would not get up. I put him in a kiddie pool and exercised his legs, but he could not get up.....so back to the vet we went. His legs had atrophied in such a short time. He ruled out a couple different things and then we did an x-ray. It didn't show anything. Vet still thought it was lead poisoning and had been absorbed in his symptom. Since he had the impaction, the quick down hill health and quick atrophy of his legs. So he suggested i start him on Cupermin (sp) which is what they use for children with lead poisoning. i had trouble finding it as it is not often used, ordered it from CAN. I started him on it and he did start to look better and get more use of his legs. His color looks better and he is his old self as far as his body and mind, just he can't use his legs from the hock down. He can move his toes, he just can't flex his "wrist". In his chair he runs like the wind, his little legs just a going. I had to make sure his feet did not touch ground because he would make his toes bleed. He has a joyful soul and loves his life, he gets wheeled all over the yard, visits with his friends and his best bud is Turkey Lurkey, a mixed turkey hen. he didn't give up so I didn't on him. It's just a little different taking care of him.

We never did find the source of the posioning, just a couple empty shot gun shell buried in the dirt. He was the only one that got sick.......

 

[banter]

Those two are lucky to have you as their human! Can you post pics of the cart?

 

[chickenzoo]

Sure................

I have to add lawn mower wheels, but here is the basic idea. I am going to make him another closer to the ground with wheels that he can scoot around, and some boots so he doesn't tear up his toes.