She's so beautiful!New photo of Nova, my second gen Polkie. My daughter took this photo earlier this week. She weighs just under 2 pounds at 4 months of age and is such a sweetie. She makes the same creaking noises as her Polish grandma!View attachment 3002641
I'm so sorry! Were they chicks?
At first it was just the longest little toe that was bent.You can soak the tape a little bit with water if needed, this can help getting it off easily - I don't know what tape exactly you have by hand, so perhaps you can try before with a piece on your own back of hand, wet it and see how this works in your case?
To me it sounds that either your baby somehow got his foot back in the curled position into the shoe or that she/he just needs some more time.
If the first would be the case -
do you have somebody to help you with putting on the shoe? I know it is not easy to do it alone.
Please apologize if I'm telling now only things you are already doing/got told already- Unfortunately I didn't have the right material to fasten the stabilizing little cardboard piece enough and as a result couldn't prevent James from escaping the shoe, so after many, many tries I ended up placing a piece of tape with the sticky side upside on a table, then made James stand with his foot spread out on it, placing gently one after one all of his toes like they would be positioned normally (at this point it was helpful that he stood on slightly sticky material, and, that I could compare with his normal foot how everything should look ), then placing a second piece sticky side down over it and pressing all the sticky parts gently together like a sandwich. One can carefully trim the edges of the 'sandwich', I had light yellow tape and in good light I could see exactly where his toenails ended.
That you got a paper/cardboard stabilizator kept in place is great! Best wishes for your little sweetie
Try again, use medical paper tape, you can get this at any pharmacy. It won’t stick like regular tape will. It is made for people who have adhesive allergies. Cut out a little shoe out of card stock or very thin cardboard and put the foot back in the anatomically normal position as best you can. The earlier this gets done the better the chance the chick has to completely heal.
Shes soooo pretty!!!!New photo of Nova, my second gen Polkie. My daughter took this photo earlier this week. She weighs just under 2 pounds at 4 months of age and is such a sweetie. She makes the same creaking noises as her Polish grandma!
I did but not sure it is correct. I wish I could get a pic with the shoe off so u can see but I hate to undo it again. I don't wanna hurt the lil one anymore. It is the tiniest of the 4 babies BUT it is thriving just like the others so idk.Try again, use medical paper tape, you can get this at any pharmacy. It won’t stick like regular tape will. It is made for people who have adhesive allergies. Cut out a little shoe out of card stock or very thin cardboard and put the foot back in the anatomically normal position as best you can. The earlier this gets done the better the chance the chick has to completely heal.
OMGeeze I just cut a bit of its lil toe!Try again, use medical paper tape, you can get this at any pharmacy. It won’t stick like regular tape will. It is made for people who have adhesive allergies. Cut out a little shoe out of card stock or very thin cardboard and put the foot back in the anatomically normal position as best you can. The earlier this gets done the better the chance the chick has to completely heal.
What a little cutie! ..It is very difficult trying to wrap up a little tiny chickie foot! Your doing well!
