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Thank you for reminding me to update!! I kept meaning to!

Hey!! Sorry i haven’t updated in forever, life got crazy this summer, I started renting a spot at a salon doing hair and whatnot while still working 3rd shift at a store a couple days a week. So it’s been exhausting 😆 But my little Trash is doing great! My sisters flock definitely didn’t react...

Thank you for the links! I’ll look into them! Hopefully those help, I’m getting a little nervous that she won’t learn how to use a prosthetic. And I bet they would need to change her name, huh? 😂

Update! So the last few days I’ve been giving Trash a break from prosthetics. Last time I put them on her, she was pretty stressed. She was having watery poops that day, so I should’ve known she was already a bit stressed. She was struggling and I heard a joint pop, and let me tell you - I was...

Okay that makes me feel lots better, thank you! I adore this goofy little chicken! And I’ll go add a link! And I know I’ve seen it, but on her good leg, she’s in the process of losing all her toes (severe frostbite from the horrible Wisconsin winter) so I worry about what her balance will be...

So I have a chicken that lost her leg about a month ago, it’s all healed up, I’m trying prosthetics with it, and I’m documenting it on a different thread. The other thread. But today she’s had watery poops and I chalked that up to giving her too many strawberries yesterday (I think she...

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Thank you for all your encouragement! All of you guys on this thread really! And what you said about human amputees, you’re so right! My best friend said the same thing to me when I got discouraged. Trash needs to relearn how to walk with it. Today we had a tiny bit of progress! She left the...

Thank you for all your encouragement! All of you guys on this thread really! And what you said about human amputees, you’re so right! My best friend said the same thing to me when I got discouraged. Trash needs to relearn how to walk with it. Today we had a tiny bit of progress! She left the...

Sorry I haven’t updated in so long! So now, Trash has a chicken diaper so she can spend more time in the house with me and we just received the prosthetic leg from Branscum 3D Printing on Etsy! They were great to work with! They had me send pictures of her leg with a measuring tape and they...

So the honey didn’t work for us, mainly because Trash kept getting the bandages off and getting stuff stuck all over the wound 🤣 So I went back to the plantain salve which has been good! But yesterday, I decided to use vet wrap instead of cotton gauze and tape. And I’m an idiot. I’ve never...

I definitely didn’t find it at my Walmart, but I did find manuka honey, which I guess is similar 🤔 My sister told me that melaleuca is tea tree! So I suppose that makes sense

Thank you! I love this little chicken and I’ll do anything for her And @ramblinroseburke i keep hearing that about honey! That’s so interesting. Well now I know I have some great options! Today I’ll wrap with plantain salve because I have that on hand, and tomorrow(since that’s when I was...

Oh perfect!! I’ll definitely use it then! My sister suggested sugar to promote tissue growth, but that makes me nervous….. although I suppose sugar IS a preservative, so I guess maybe it’d help 🤣

Thank you!! And I don’t have candula on hand, but my mom makes a plantain leaf/beeswax balm, and that’s supposed to have similar effects I believe. I’ll try one of those!

Thank you! I sure try to do what’s best for her, I can only hope it’s working

Warning: Gross pictures :sick UPDATE: WHAT A WHIRLWIND THESE PAST COUPLE DAYS HAVE BEEN. So on Monday, Trash seemed to be feeling pretty good - so good she flew out of her tote box. Which is fine, there was a cage around it. She wasn’t putting any pressure on the dead leg, and the days prior...

UPDATE: So I’ve definitely given up on my sliver of hope that she wouldn’t lose her leg. At this point she’d need a Lazarus level miracle from God to save that leg. I’ve still been soaking her for 30 minutes daily and injecting her enrofloxacin. Also I’m still wrapping the…. Wounds? I’m not...

Thank you @HeatherKellyB and @Weeg ! And you’re right omg, she is a tiny Joan Jett, I love that 😂 Maybe I’ll try to rig up a sling, I know the vet mentioned slight bruising on her breast bone, and although I’m trying to get her to gain weight, she’s always been a pretty skinny bird, so I’m sure...

I will definitely keep the sling in mind! And I’m sort of thinking the flock won’t be nice to her again if reintroduced. They already were bullying her by pecking out her head feathers, so she was moved into our bantam coop(this was about a week before the frostbite). She was moved there along...