Again, I wanted to update on our Blue Cochin Roo, Vida Blue.
He broke his leg friday morning ,and after some serious consideration, we decided to see if we can help him out. I had a nurse friend help me splint his leg with fiberglass"sticks" and lots of medical tape. I secluded him from the girls on the coop, but still left him in the actual coop. Sunday me and my husband decided to take a look at his lef, to make sure that his circulation wasn';t compromised or that tah stcks hadn't cut into his leg or foot. Upon doiing that we realized that some of the tape had given and actually broken off, so therefor we decoded to resplint it with large Craftstcks, kind of like popsicle sticks, except larger. This time I used a lot of sticks and tape and this time it will not come off. Seeing how uncomfortable he was we decided monday afternoon to make a chicken sling or chicken chair for him, to hopefully keep some of the pressure off his injured leg.
I used a large dogloo dog kennel, and made in lack of any other explanation a hammock of fabric across the middle of the dog kennel. I cut out two holes for his legs and placed him in it, it is almost as if he is hanging, except his good leg is still touching the ground and his bad leg is finally free to hopefully heal.
I then used my sons Craftman tool box boxes and screwed those on the wire door to the kennel and that way Vida could reach his food. I understand that he will be needing to be still for at least 4 weeks, so this is a great way for him to be comfortable, at least more so than before when he was straining to stand up and would loose his balance.
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Thanks to everybody that gave me some info on what to do and so on, I was desperate sunday, but after a few words from y'all, it worked itself out...
Keep your fingers crossed that Vida Blue will be A Ok again, he just isn't ready to leave us yet, or better yet we are not ready to not have Vida in our lives anymore.
Kindly, Kycklingmamma
He broke his leg friday morning ,and after some serious consideration, we decided to see if we can help him out. I had a nurse friend help me splint his leg with fiberglass"sticks" and lots of medical tape. I secluded him from the girls on the coop, but still left him in the actual coop. Sunday me and my husband decided to take a look at his lef, to make sure that his circulation wasn';t compromised or that tah stcks hadn't cut into his leg or foot. Upon doiing that we realized that some of the tape had given and actually broken off, so therefor we decoded to resplint it with large Craftstcks, kind of like popsicle sticks, except larger. This time I used a lot of sticks and tape and this time it will not come off. Seeing how uncomfortable he was we decided monday afternoon to make a chicken sling or chicken chair for him, to hopefully keep some of the pressure off his injured leg.
I used a large dogloo dog kennel, and made in lack of any other explanation a hammock of fabric across the middle of the dog kennel. I cut out two holes for his legs and placed him in it, it is almost as if he is hanging, except his good leg is still touching the ground and his bad leg is finally free to hopefully heal.
I then used my sons Craftman tool box boxes and screwed those on the wire door to the kennel and that way Vida could reach his food. I understand that he will be needing to be still for at least 4 weeks, so this is a great way for him to be comfortable, at least more so than before when he was straining to stand up and would loose his balance.
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Thanks to everybody that gave me some info on what to do and so on, I was desperate sunday, but after a few words from y'all, it worked itself out...
Keep your fingers crossed that Vida Blue will be A Ok again, he just isn't ready to leave us yet, or better yet we are not ready to not have Vida in our lives anymore.
Kindly, Kycklingmamma
