I have already tried one vet (knew it was a long shot, they wouldn't see it and said the local refuge wouldn't treat 'pest' birds) and have messages out to the nearest wildlife center that MickaCoo recommended as possibly taking pigeons. Just want to know any opinions or advice as I likely won't hear from anyone around here until at least tomorrow.
The pigeon might be a fledgling? It has a lot of adult feathers, but not all. I found it on the ground. I do not think it's parents were still cvaring for it because it is emaciated. Feathers and bones. I couldn't have left him anyway because he was in front of a busy business and they were going to kill him with a pressure washer .
I thought he had a broken leg at first, but then thought maybe it was just a really terrible splay. I took him to my mothers' house (the emergency vet is very near her, so we were already driving him past her house, I wasn't just touring with the poor thing). She has some experience with splay leg babies, and she looked at his leg a little and said she thought it looked like a splay leg with a hip deformity as well. She's not a vet, but she has had a lot of hands-on baby bird experience in the past.
The leg in question isn't held to the side like the splays I've seen, it is held almost parallel to his body towards his tail, and the pad of his foot faces up. When I went to pick him up he had a flopping way of moving but didn't seem to try to bear weight on his good leg or flap his wings at all. When my mom looked at him, he gripped with both feet separately but she said he didn't grip well with either one. I haven't looked at him much or tried to feed or water him yet because I don't want to put him into shock. He's so, so thin though...
Does it sound like he can be helped? Does it sound like euthanasia at the refuge would be the kindest option with his troubles? I know it's pretty impossible to say from just a description online. I'm just so anxious waiting to hear back from the wildlife place. I love pigeons.
The pigeon might be a fledgling? It has a lot of adult feathers, but not all. I found it on the ground. I do not think it's parents were still cvaring for it because it is emaciated. Feathers and bones. I couldn't have left him anyway because he was in front of a busy business and they were going to kill him with a pressure washer .
I thought he had a broken leg at first, but then thought maybe it was just a really terrible splay. I took him to my mothers' house (the emergency vet is very near her, so we were already driving him past her house, I wasn't just touring with the poor thing). She has some experience with splay leg babies, and she looked at his leg a little and said she thought it looked like a splay leg with a hip deformity as well. She's not a vet, but she has had a lot of hands-on baby bird experience in the past.
The leg in question isn't held to the side like the splays I've seen, it is held almost parallel to his body towards his tail, and the pad of his foot faces up. When I went to pick him up he had a flopping way of moving but didn't seem to try to bear weight on his good leg or flap his wings at all. When my mom looked at him, he gripped with both feet separately but she said he didn't grip well with either one. I haven't looked at him much or tried to feed or water him yet because I don't want to put him into shock. He's so, so thin though...
Does it sound like he can be helped? Does it sound like euthanasia at the refuge would be the kindest option with his troubles? I know it's pretty impossible to say from just a description online. I'm just so anxious waiting to hear back from the wildlife place. I love pigeons.