Bird Splayed Leg Treatment

Some prefer to use a sponge with small holes cut out for each leg but we recommend using first aid adhesive tape because it is much easier to correct the legs in stages and it also offers the chick normal mobility unlike when using a sponge.

Bird splayed leg treatment. Chicks suffering from Splay Leg should have their shanks hobbled together to allow the birds legs to correct themselves. Rubber band threaded through a short piece of drinking straw bandaids string etc the preferred tool for this purpose is a self-adhesive medical wrap. It can often be repaired with a drinking glass.

12 inch piece of a plastic straw. The idea is after a certain time of forcing the legs or toes into the correct position the problem will correct itself. First place it on the firm foot and then place the other side of the bracelet to the discomforted foot.

Another method used is cutting two tiny holes in a sponge and placing the birds legs through the holes to keep them in the correct position. Fortunately spraddle leg may be corrected and many chicks recover quickly if treated at the first sign of symptoms. You dont want to harm the birds legs by overforcing it but you will have to pull on them a bit to get them properly situated.

No glue is used pieces lock tightly together. Kanaryapo splayed leg in bird treatment bracelet parakeets. Also see my Parrotlet information section for photos showing you how to treat splayed legs in little birds.

Correcting Splayed Leg with a Splint. The most common physical therapy used for splayed legs andor curled toes is to create a makeshift splint using a bandage or tape. You have to find a balance here.

With the help of a pint drink beer before placing chick in the glass. Once you get one leg through push up the sponge past the leg joint so it is against the body then push the other foot through the second slit. Splayleg or rotational leg deformities in birds can involve various tissue types in the stifle femur upper thigh tibiotarsus main bone of the birds leg and tarsometatarsus large bone in lower leg of bird.