Hops doing ok so far. His whole focus is on trying to stand. Unfortunately he rolls onto his bad side a bit and kicks with his one leg so he ends up spinning circles. I'm worried that legs going to splay because it's never up under him, but ends up jutting to the side. So I made him a sleeping bowl using my shredded paper and it keeps his body and leg in the right position and lets him excersize it. He's propping his wing up on the edge of the bowl on his bad side and bounces up and down with all his heart. As long as I can get him to eat he should have a strong leg soon, and in the right position to give him a chance of standing on his own.
I turned my empty incubator into a brooder box for him since he can't move in and out of a heat lamp. So he's got a stable temp to help him. Every couple hours I hold him for a bit to try to get food and water in him. His focus is all on standing though and he's not pecking or trying to eat at all. So syringe feeding him after giving him time and encouragement to self feed. He seems to be handling that well and so far no oops aspiration .
I don't feel any movement from that lump in his abdomen but I don't know if that means his foots not moving or if it just means it's too deep to feel anything except that it's there. Hope it's not moving.
I haven't done any reading yet to see if I can find any cases of birds like him. I can't even imagine how that happened and he made it to hatch. But so far he's still a vigorous baby. He's a little messy from my feedings and still trying to stick that foot sideways, but he loves standing with a little help.
I turned my empty incubator into a brooder box for him since he can't move in and out of a heat lamp. So he's got a stable temp to help him. Every couple hours I hold him for a bit to try to get food and water in him. His focus is all on standing though and he's not pecking or trying to eat at all. So syringe feeding him after giving him time and encouragement to self feed. He seems to be handling that well and so far no oops aspiration .
I don't feel any movement from that lump in his abdomen but I don't know if that means his foots not moving or if it just means it's too deep to feel anything except that it's there. Hope it's not moving.
I haven't done any reading yet to see if I can find any cases of birds like him. I can't even imagine how that happened and he made it to hatch. But so far he's still a vigorous baby. He's a little messy from my feedings and still trying to stick that foot sideways, but he loves standing with a little help.