What should I do? I have doves and they laid eggs, one bird was born perfectly healthy and the other was born with two broken legs, its legs are spread wide open like it's doing the "split" and the poor bird moves back and forth by sliding around the cage.. What am I suppose to do??
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Look in your phonebook for an animal hospital were you live and ask them if they work on birds!!
Naturally I think you should kill it...Kill it and eat it's flesh. Mmmm.I love to eat tastey dove.
take it out, all its doing is suffering
it must be in pain...put it to sleep humanely.
you need to step in to action as soon as possible my friend had this happen to her the bird ended up dying but if you take it in to an er for anI'mals they can help you out but the sooner the better but you may end up having to put it to sleep im sorry if you do
Just try to treat it as well as you can. There's not much you can do to heal a bird's broken bone except give it time and not allow any pressure to be on it. The fact that the bird is a newborn bird means that, unfortunately, it'll probably die soon.
I had a rooster born like this once. Chickens are very vicious to the weak ones (pecking order) and all of them used to gang up on him and pluck his tail feathers out and peck him.
We had to segregate him so they wouldn't kill him. Eventually as he grew, his legs improved and strengthened and he learned to stand and walk, but not well. We tried to introduce him back in with the flock, but they didn't accept him he was constantly hurt because they ripped out his feathers and pecked him until he bled. He lived for about 8 months, but eventually, a hawk killed him (took out the weak one).
If doves are gentle unlike chickens, and the other birds don't kick it's @ss, you can let it live out its life. Just make sure he can get food and water, and has an area to take shelter on the floor of the cage. But it has some sort of problems, so be prepared that it may die or not be able to thrive. If the other doves will pick on him and injure him more, you are better off to segregate him in his own cage, or just put him out of his misery.
normally a healthy grown bird that has had an accident, you can help that with splints, but one who is born that way? maybe no.
if is has difficulty feeding or in some sort of pain, you should kill it. otherwise, make a home for it nearer the ground and feed it. it might live. it might be a cripple, but i don't think the other doves will be teasing it
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