Hello members, sorry for the long post but I was hoping someone here might have experience with regaining function of toes after a traumatic leg injury?
I was recently surrendered a 6 month old Jardine parrot with an abnormal leg due to the owners lack of time to properly care for him. Apparently he was shipped here to Ontario from BC and she was told by the breeder he was born this way.
I was very suspicious upon seeing him that this story might not be true.
I took him to the avian specialist at the University of Guelph 2 weeks ago to have him assessed and the xray told a sad story
His leg was obviously broken at some point and no attempt was made to stabilize it so it healed on a 90° angle and he was weight bearing on his ankle (which was inflammed and calloused).
He also shows signs of metabolic bone disease on xrays so they suspect poor nutrition when he was very young.
Long discussion later and the vet thought he had a very good chance of regaining the almost normal use of his leg after surgery.
He had surgery on Thurs and he came home Sat evening.
Now to the issue, he is dragging the toes on that foot and doesn't appear to be trying to grip/perch with them at all. They also feel slightly colder than the toes on his other foot.
At discharge the vet said it may take a bit until he is using them because of the surgery/swelling in his leg so we are doing gentle physio on his toes for now.
I am pretty scared he's lost use of those toes which might make putting him through all this and the money spent/to be spent at bandage changes /rechecks/xrays not worth it.
Has anyone ever been through anything similar with a bird?? I would love to hear from you!!
I was recently surrendered a 6 month old Jardine parrot with an abnormal leg due to the owners lack of time to properly care for him. Apparently he was shipped here to Ontario from BC and she was told by the breeder he was born this way.
I was very suspicious upon seeing him that this story might not be true.
I took him to the avian specialist at the University of Guelph 2 weeks ago to have him assessed and the xray told a sad story
His leg was obviously broken at some point and no attempt was made to stabilize it so it healed on a 90° angle and he was weight bearing on his ankle (which was inflammed and calloused).
He also shows signs of metabolic bone disease on xrays so they suspect poor nutrition when he was very young.
Long discussion later and the vet thought he had a very good chance of regaining the almost normal use of his leg after surgery.
He had surgery on Thurs and he came home Sat evening.
Now to the issue, he is dragging the toes on that foot and doesn't appear to be trying to grip/perch with them at all. They also feel slightly colder than the toes on his other foot.
At discharge the vet said it may take a bit until he is using them because of the surgery/swelling in his leg so we are doing gentle physio on his toes for now.
I am pretty scared he's lost use of those toes which might make putting him through all this and the money spent/to be spent at bandage changes /rechecks/xrays not worth it.
Has anyone ever been through anything similar with a bird?? I would love to hear from you!!
