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ChickDancer said:
Okay, I finally gave in, grabbed needle and thread, and sewed Phoenix's head as best as I could. The wound is too big to actually have the skin touch, but I pulled it together as much as I could get it.

Thanks to my oh-so-wonderful nieces and nephews (probably more the nieces, and yes you detect heavy sarcasm), I wasn't able to change his bandage properly last night or this morning. Out of FOUR rolls of the self-adhesive bandage wrap, three have disappeared. I had only one, and I have now used it up. I tried to reuse the wrapping, but it doesn't stick to itself very well after that first time. These kids are notorous thieves. If they want it, they take it, period. And their fricking mother gives NO punishment of ANY sort for ANYTHING they do wrong. No kidding.

So anyway, Phoenix's bandaging came off, and the ligaments to his neck muscle dried out and came off of the skull. Now only one side is attached, and it's causing his head to flop sideways from that side having tension, and the other side not pulling on it at all.

I put it back on as best as I could (I'm thinking about trying the super-glue method), and then pulled the skin up over the muscle ligament and sewed it as tight as I could to hold it there. Then I wrapped his head in a way that kinda forces it to sit properly, and set him back in the towel-lined laundry basket with his head propped up by folds of fabric.

I'm going to ask about ligament reattachment on the emergency forum. I hope it can. If not, he'll have to be put down. He's survived 6 days now with half of his scalp missing. It's going to really suck to lose him NOW.
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I'm so sorry :( I hope he pulls through!
 
carcar80 said:
Without knowing what this looks like.. And just knowing birds delicate bones- I don't know just what/where you COULD attach..
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Unfortunately, I sewed it up as best as I could to cover the spot before I took any photos. No one has wanted to see photos so far, because it is literally the skull of a living, breathing, and conscious rooster.
 
ChickDancer said:
Unfortunately, I sewed it up as best as I could to cover the spot before I took any photos. No one has wanted to see photos so far, because it is literally the skull of a living, breathing, and conscious rooster.
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Any time you've got stuff like that, remember you can't gross me out. ;) It's kinda what I see every day.
 
carcar80 said:
Any time you've got stuff like that, remember you can't gross me out.
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It's kinda what I see every day.
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But the rest of us can be grossed out LOL

I'm trying to get over having a rabbit in the crockpot. No idea if I'll be able to eat it, knowing what it is.
 
ChickDancer said:
Did you see my reply to you in the BIN/Auction thread? About sizzles?
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Yes, I did see that and Thank You for the offer. I'm being really lazy about the sizzle thing though in that I'm trying to get my breeding stock from people who've already done most of the work lol. I don't want to have to breed out the Cochin or Polish traits so I'm looking for sizzles that are already several generations past the first breeding. The ones in my bator now are F17 and this woman's birds are gorgeous! Emvickory is several generations in also and she has cuckoo and penciled stock too. :). Please know that I do appreciate the offer but I'm too lazy to start fresh lol.
 
ChickDancer said:
Unfortunately, I sewed it up as best as I could to cover the spot before I took any photos. No one has wanted to see photos so far, because it is literally the skull of a living, breathing, and conscious rooster.
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I wanna see!!

carcar80 said:
Any time you've got stuff like that, remember you can't gross me out.
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It's kinda what I see every day.
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I second that, I don't see it everyday but I'll hopefully be going to vet school in a few years!
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