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Re: deformed cockatiel?
Posted by Lori on 10/22/07

On 5/04/07, Minnie wrote:
> I recently got a young female cockatiel. She's so very
> sweet and I enjoy her very much. The breeder I got her
> from thinks that the mother sat on her incorrctly... She
> now has twisted legs. The left leg is just slightly
> twisted, the right however is twisted badly. The right
> being twisted as badly as it is kind of makes her right
> wing stand out. My prblem/question is this... is it fair
> of me to keep her around? She does ok at walking, if she
> flaps her wings she can walk in a straight line, otherwise
> it's kind of a circular walk. Her wings are real powerful
> though. She is able to get to her food and water dishes
> that came with the cage. Please contact me if you have any
> thoughts or opinions about this subject
> [email protected]
> Thank you very much. :)
> on a side note, at this time I do not have any pics of her
> just yet.

Hi, I just discovered this site. I don't know if you still
have this deformed bird,but I have one in similar condition.
It was that last of group to hatch. It was no.five and the
vet said it had been sat on and its legs---one spayed and
one backward. He tried a home made hobble,and it was
terrible to deal with changing it as it took me so long and
then it was soiled too often so after 3 mos I quite and let
the bird just be as is. I had in the meantime created a sm
wooden box inside of a small cage with seed dishes and seed
millet sm dishes,broke off the perch and wires similar to a
a bucket a horse would dip his head into, I supplimented her
food by hand feding 3x a day as she could not drink from the
water bottle or dish. I exercised her on my table in a long
flat box top lid with sides. She can crawl around it with
her beak and I let her flap her wings as if flying each day
to give her excerise. The one spayed leg was overcorrected
and the other leg remains on backward. She is a happy little
girl and gets lots of love and sometimes watches tv from
either my holding her in a sm basket or her looking over
the boxtop. She also eats soft veggies. She was 5 yrs old
last July. She loves to have her head rubbed. We would not
dream of getting rid of her.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• deformed cockatiel?, 5/04/07, by Minnie.
• Re: deformed cockatiel?, 5/04/07, by LindaC in OK.
• Re: deformed cockatiel?, 10/22/07, by Lori.