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broken leghi all, i have a bird pigeon with a broken leg, i done a search to see what to do, but could'nt find the right answer, from pigeys skeleton diagram, it is broken at the fibula, what is the best way to splint this,
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broken legOriginally Posted by Pidgey
Reti, That's one reason to clip the feathers real close. Anyhow, I did send an email with all the applicable pages on different splinting techniques. If it's uncomplicated, this is probably the best one though: Pidgey pidgey, i had put up a threads but then fond this post, the leg is broken high up on the fibula, will te same splint work for this, it seems to have broken at an acute angle just under the joint, where s the best position for the splints of wood, thanks for your help, In the mean time i have tried my best to splint, the bird was a bit stressed so have left it to rest
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I will PM Pidgey in regards to your question
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best splinting method i have found about.
take a mcdonalds drinking straw (use these because they are bigger opening split it end to end place over the affected area and use a regular human size band-aid at either end. cut it off in 10 days to 2 weeks it works great!! E..
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she is resting in the nest, i put food and water in with her and she eating ok but have not seen her drink yet, she is not on eggs by the way, i just weaned two of her two days ago, Im in two minds now what to do,
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I put he back in the nest box renee in her nest though she would be happier there, i am watching her mate to see if her bothers her. ifhe does i will bring her in the house to keep an eye . i done it up the best i could. it was moving about badly but i think i have it as best as possible.
i have seen splints you can buy but they don't seem to go up the lg far enough for my purpose , the other thing i am worried about is if i don't have it in place right, she could end up with a bad limp, would this happen, thankyou for your reply renee,
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Thankyou renee, i will leave it as it is and hopefully it turns out ok,
I though about taking her to a vet, but decided they could not tell me any different , from what i read on here and advice from yourselves, and also saves me a few $$$ but if really needed i would spend it,
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Sorry, just never made it online today until now. The fibula is more of a vestigial bone (somewhat uesless) and doesn't have a lot to do with the mechanical functioning of the leg. I'm guessing that if you went here:
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/skeleton.html ...and looked at one of the lower drawings of the leg, you probably saw two names pointing to a portion of the leg, the "fibula" and the other the "tibiotarsus". The tibiotarsus is the real leg bone there and the fibula is actually more like a toothpick that lays alongside it. Anyhow, they'd both be broken if either one did. The higher up it is, the worse it is. What'll help the most is to make a real soft nest out of a towel for the bird to recline it while it's healing for the next couple of weeks. It'll try to stand up to poop but if you make a hollow under the vent, it might keep that to a minimum. When you're taping one of them up in a splint, the wood is more of an afterthought--it gets most of the strength from the tape itself. The trouble with a break way up there is that the it's pretty tough to immobilize the true knee (where the patella is) seeing as how it's more encased in body skin that "out there" like ours is. They're kind of in a perpetual squat. If you go to this one: http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/showpo...5&postcount=14 ...and look at illustration "A", you'll see a broken tibiotarsus (midshaft, by the way) that would be broken further down that what you appear to be describing. Pidgey
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you can buy plastic casts to put on i use them and always works ok for me in the past,
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What happened to this thread? Where are all the posts that were made?
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