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Broken leg

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#1 ·
Hi !

A lady brought me a pigeon yesterday that she had been keeping in a box with water and seeds for a week until she could bring it to some rescue center in her city. Since the bird lost all of his remaining tail feathers overnight she panicked and brought him (I offered to take him in earlier but she didn't want to do the 1-hour drive I think, which I can understand). Anyways, that was the contexte. Now onto the bird.

He has a broken leg (and no tail feathers but that's a minor issue). The fracture has been sitting for at least a week, possibly more. Yesterday I brought him to a regular vet, who I know has racing pigeons (because my exotic pet specialist is even more expensive on saturdays as it's emergency day, and I've just shed 170 euros there for another rescue last week).

The vet seemed totally unalarming, he felt the fracture for a few seconds and then it was not healed yet and would take one or two months but that no splint was necessary. He said he would just have a slightly twisted leg but that it'd be totally functional. He told me the feathers would grow back (he was probably grabbed by a predator or somehow got hit by a car, plus the woman grabbed him by his tail when she rescued him). He checked the inside of the beak, the wings. Said he was of course undernurished, but other than that fairly good.

Now my question is, should I still go to py exotic pet specialist ? I'm sure he would do two x-rays, do a thorough check of the bird and maybe make a splint for his leg. It would cost me so much money and I've already paid the last bird vet expenses on my overdraft, so if I can avoid it, I'd rather. But does it not seem necessary to have an x-ray of a fracture ?

Thank you for your help !
For info, a picture of the featherless ass of this baby :)
 

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It has probably already started healing some, but I have not seen the leg, and don't know how badly it is shaped or twisted. All depends on how badly broken or the position of the bones, to know whether it would heal okay without being splinted.
 
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