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#Post#: 7288--------------------------------------------------
How can I avoid ''Straddle leg''?
DIR By: birdman.
Date: May 22, 2011, 7:20 am
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Hi
I have a youngster fully weaned, he may be 3 weeks old, but the
poor git can't stand up and he/she doesn't walk, but sort of
crawl using his wings.
Is there any chance he will be okay in the future?
How can I avoid this in the future?
(it's a single baby)
Big Al
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Re: How can I avoid ''Straddle leg''?
DIR By: joeb
Date: May 22, 2011, 7:57 am
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Not much hope for this one as it is too late. In the future use
sand in the bottom of the nest bowl to prevent this from
occuring. If it does you can double band the bird as soon as you
catch the problem. Then tie a rubber band between the two bands.
The leg will begin to correct itself and the bird will be able
to walk.
Keep em spinning
Joe B
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Re: How can I avoid ''Straddle leg''?
DIR By: oldfart
Date: May 22, 2011, 9:50 am
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Joe is right but since you have nothing to lose try rubber
banding the legs together with about an inch between the legs.
If it is not double banded, use an old band and split it in
order to get it on. You can remove it later if the process
works.
Good luck
Take care
Thom
#Post#: 7292--------------------------------------------------
Re: How can I avoid ''Straddle leg''?
DIR By: 2y4life
Date: May 22, 2011, 10:28 am
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That's called splayed leg. It often happens because of lack of
nesting material or because there's only a single squab (as in
your case). The squab doesn't have another youngster to lean and
push off of so it's legs become splayed. You can prevent that by
putting nesting material in the nest bowl.
At 3 weeks, I'm not sure what you can do. Follow the advice of
rubberbanding the legs but I'm very doubtful now.
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Re: How can I avoid ''Straddle leg''?
DIR By: jnyce
Date: May 22, 2011, 2:35 pm
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its possible i had a bird around the same age i tied id legs for
about two weeks and now he is good to go and he had a nest mate
and i had a nesting pad in there so i dont know what happened
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Re: How can I avoid ''Splayed leg''?
DIR By: birdman.
Date: May 22, 2011, 2:41 pm
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Ok Thank u everyone.
I've used 1 elastic band, wich is quiet thick, looped it around
both legs with an inch gap between it's legs.
If it doesn't get well, does that mean straight to the soup pot
after a few weeks?
Big Al
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Re: How can I avoid ''Straddle leg''?
DIR By: samir
Date: May 23, 2011, 5:53 am
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I use plastic bowls for nests. To prevent nesting material to
slip around and underneath chicks legs I use self adhesive
sendpaper pads for sending mashines 600 or 800 grit. Tape them
on the bottom of bowll. No problems since regardles of how much
nesting material is in nest.
Samir
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