Disability aids

[pablo_honey1981]

My Peachick has a problem with her leg. Took her to vets but all they offered was murder.

I've tried to help her myself but been unsuccessful due to being unable to sedate her.

She hops around on the good leg but this is now a bad leg as she got bumble foot and now hops around on her forefoot (toes fully flexed) which is now all swollen. I think some chicken birdy booties would sort this but I can't get these in UK. I've tried to make my own but they don't stay on.

I've seen YouTube videos of chickens in hammocks on wheels so they can be supported but also move around. Something like this would really help her. She's about the size of a dove at present, her siblings now the size of a large chicken.

Could anyone point me in the right direction for any of these aides? Or indeed offer advice on sedation. So far I've tried Nytol, Piriton and vodka fumes (closest I can get to ether) nothing works. (I think her problem is a dislocated knee, I think i can relocate it if she were to be sedated - I am a medical Doctor)

 

[Debbie292d]

You could try this. I have two macaw parrots and when they need nails trimmed, I wrap them up in a heavy towel so they are froze in place except for their feet.

As far as a painkiller, @casportpony posted this. She raises peafowl too. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/limping-peacock.1331788/post-21746616

I’ve not read anything about sedation of poultry but maybe she or someone else knows.

If she indeed has bumblefoot, there are other treatments such as using a drawing cream, soaking in Epsom salts and trying to remove it, etc. Here are some threads/articles about it.

Bumblefoot: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/bumblefoot-in-chickens-my-successful-treatment.75244/
Tricide-neo https://ouroneacrefarm.com/2013/11/09/bumblefoot-treatment-tricideneo/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/treating-bumblefoot-with-tricide-neo.513183/

 

[Eggcessive]

Riboflavin or human vitamin B complex may be helpful treating the curled under toes. You may be dealing with a slipped tendon or a leg bone deformity, such as varus or valgus, or a rotated tibia. Only a slipped tendon may be treated without surgery, by determining if the achilles tendon is slipped out of place. You can then try to put it back in place and splint the leg daily, checking to see if it is back in place. Very few succeed in treatment. Chicken sling chairs can be helpful in getting them in front of food and water. I probably would not try to sedate, but at night in the dark, they should be sleeping and it may be a better time to treat or move them. Here is a good thread about treating a peachick with slipped tendon starting on post 12:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/peachick-with-slipped-tendon.1092979/page-2

 

[Debbie292d]

Oh, and you mentioned hammocks. Here’s a post about similar. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

 

[Eggcessive]

Oh, and you mentioned hammocks. Here’s a post about similar. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

This is a video of a good sling chair made with a plastic storage crate, a piece of fleece, and binder clips with attached food and water:

 

[Debbie292d]

This is a video of a good sling chair made with a plastic storage crate, a piece of fleece, and binder clips with attached food and water:

We made one pretty close to that one! Hubby cut one of those kitty litter buckets off at about 6 inches from the top, stretched a sheet across, made holes and used binder clips. They were little, and we wanted their feet to just touch the ground.