The adventures of chubnut! update, I think he is paralyzed

[patnjess]

I have turned quite handsome. Still going around with what I am. and then the question boy or girl? People at the swap thought I might be a mocking bird, what do you think?

 

[The Chicken People]

I think you are too cute! I found two baby birds DOA under one of our trees! It was sad!

 

[bakerjw]

Very cute little guy/gal.

We had some cardinals nest in a wisteria on our front porch. Early one evening one of the babies climbed out onto a branch to look at the world and see what was going on. It was so homely that it was adorable.

 

[patnjess]

sigh....I think chubnut is paralyzed. I noticed that is right leg never worked, but now it seems neither works, if he tries to walk he falls over. there is no reaction when you touch his feet, no perching reaction or anything. I don't know if he was injured in the fall or what, but I was hoping to release him, but now that doesn't look like it will happen.
He eats normal and poops normal, but how long can he go about this.

 

[redhen]

OOh no!

 

[Laurajean]

I know this sounds crazy, but I once rescued a little mouse from my cat's mouth, and he too had a leg issue and wasn't walking. I guessed that it may be broken, so I took a toothpick and broke off an end, and taped it to his leg with medical tape creating a splint. My husband (at the time) thought I was off my rocker, but it worked! His leg healed and I am sure my home made splint helped.

Also, my cat once had a weird thing happen to his leg. I never knew what exactly happened, but he was limping around with his front paw lifted, but not all the way off the ground, so it was dragging. My vet (who is the best vet ever!) said that there was apparently some sort of nerve damage and that if he continued to drag the paw, it would get scraped and infected, and so we needed to consider amputating it. Well, I asked him if I could wait just a couple more weeks, to be really sure it wasn't going to get better. He said yes. I went home with that cat and every night as he slept next to me, I would massage that area, and VERY carefully, uncurl his paw, little by little each night. Within 1 or 2 weeks, his paw had completely straightened out! Soon he was walking on it again as if nothing ever happened!

So don't panic about little Chubnut. He may just heal and have a limp. My neighbor has a goose that has a severely deformed wing and he lives a perfectly happy life. I've also seen a deformed Blue Jay come to my feeder that cannot walk right. He lives in the wild and does just fine. So have faith, you never know!

 

[bakerjw]

Any updates?