I had a bantam rooster named Buster he started life with no problems. when I was very ill he would come up on the deck and sit with me and croon to me. needless to say he had my heart. he was protecting the hens from the neighbors standard rooster and was blinded in one eye. about 6 mo later the same thing happened and he was blinded in the other eye nd his leg was also broken. I took him to the vet and the leg was put in a Thompson splint. I was feeding him on my lap several times a day. we took him with us to a poultry show since I had to feed him. While there he fell the splint look good so we waited till it was time to go back to the vet. well the leg had come unset when he fell and the leg healed crocked and he could no longer walk. I feed and watered him 4 times a day for over 2 1/2 years. He went every where with us to poultry shows, on vacations and even fishing trips. he was a joy and a comfort always I only regret that I didn't have his broken leg pinned instead of splinted.
He got soaks in a hot tub made from a glass candle lid, and boy, did he love that....almost as much as he loved snuggling in his "spa towel" - a washcloth run through the dryer for a few minutes! He'd hang in that tub, suspended in the water and literally fall asleep. But in a couple of more weeks we realized that the damage was deeper than what we'd initially thought, and his feet curled up horribly. I tried the bandaid trick, and it worked a little, but his feet never recovered. He didn't know it, though. He grew and matured and did all the things all roosters do - he scratched in the dirt (which looked kinda funny because all he had were stumps on the ends of his legs) and he bred the girls. He ran, he flew up on the high roost at night and flew back down in the morning, and he was becoming an handsome dude! 
She is 1 1/2 yrs old. Buff Orpington.
