bug_n_flock
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- Jan 2, 2018
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- Parrots
- B&G Macaw, Galah, 5 cockatiels, 50 billion and a half budgies. We breed and do rescue. Too many to list each individual's name and age etc, but they are each individuals and loved dearly.
I have a chick with splay leg who I don't think will make significant progress in having the legs treated.
When I was in high school, one of the teachers had a cage of birds and a splay budgie among them. The bird did fine, but was a little unique. She chouldn't move around like the others, but she could climb and perch and stuff. However, the teacher did things with her birds I did not agree with, so I would like more input from you guys, whom I trust much more than a kindly old woman with 5 budgies and a lovebird in a (large) tabletop style bird cage. For all of my bird experience, that was my only experience with a splay bird until now.
I would love tips on care, feeding, and cage setup. In all liklihood the chick will live here for all of her life. We have discussed it and even if someone with bird experience comes forward to buy a bird, we just think that as her breeder it is the most responsible thing to keep her and make sure she gets the level of care she needs to truely live the best life she can. She is about 4 weeks old. I have been tapig the legs for about a week now, and some progress has been made, but the progress has slowed significantly, and the chick is starting to act like the brace is quite uncomfortable. We are thinking about backing off with the treatment and seeing how the chick develops. If she has significant quality of life issues, I have a couple of vets in mind to talk to about risk assessment for surgical correction on a tiny budgie.
She is quite a special bird, and very, very, *very* sweet. We have been calling her "Legs" lately, as sort of a hat tip to those old private eye/detective tv shows where there would be a gimick of some sort and often anyone in a wheelchair was called Legs.
We do not have internet(or running water, or an oven, etc etc etc) at the farm yet, so please forgive any typos or spelling errors. All internetting for me and most of my fiancee's internetting is done through my cell phone data(he gets 250mb a month and I get 12 gb split 3 ways currently. Cell phones are also on the list, but it is a long list starting a life).
I hope I put this in the right place, but feel free to move the thread if not. There were so many places I thought this would fit since I am interested in cage setup, feeding, thoughts on keeping up with taping the legs, etc.
Bug n Flock
And one very special baby budgie
When I was in high school, one of the teachers had a cage of birds and a splay budgie among them. The bird did fine, but was a little unique. She chouldn't move around like the others, but she could climb and perch and stuff. However, the teacher did things with her birds I did not agree with, so I would like more input from you guys, whom I trust much more than a kindly old woman with 5 budgies and a lovebird in a (large) tabletop style bird cage. For all of my bird experience, that was my only experience with a splay bird until now.
I would love tips on care, feeding, and cage setup. In all liklihood the chick will live here for all of her life. We have discussed it and even if someone with bird experience comes forward to buy a bird, we just think that as her breeder it is the most responsible thing to keep her and make sure she gets the level of care she needs to truely live the best life she can. She is about 4 weeks old. I have been tapig the legs for about a week now, and some progress has been made, but the progress has slowed significantly, and the chick is starting to act like the brace is quite uncomfortable. We are thinking about backing off with the treatment and seeing how the chick develops. If she has significant quality of life issues, I have a couple of vets in mind to talk to about risk assessment for surgical correction on a tiny budgie.
She is quite a special bird, and very, very, *very* sweet. We have been calling her "Legs" lately, as sort of a hat tip to those old private eye/detective tv shows where there would be a gimick of some sort and often anyone in a wheelchair was called Legs.
We do not have internet(or running water, or an oven, etc etc etc) at the farm yet, so please forgive any typos or spelling errors. All internetting for me and most of my fiancee's internetting is done through my cell phone data(he gets 250mb a month and I get 12 gb split 3 ways currently. Cell phones are also on the list, but it is a long list starting a life).
I hope I put this in the right place, but feel free to move the thread if not. There were so many places I thought this would fit since I am interested in cage setup, feeding, thoughts on keeping up with taping the legs, etc.
Bug n Flock
And one very special baby budgie