help needed with injured pigeon-update

[kev01293]

thanx 2 greengrass,madmaxlofts,flyer,geraint parry,steve belbin and barlby lofts 4 all your help/replies its been 7 days now and my yearling hen is now walking around the garden with the injured wing still slightly lower than the good wing but she is now trying to fly but only managing to get into the lower nestboxes approx 1ft off the floor, her appetite is back now and im wondering wether i should strap her wing up or leave her as she is- i just hope that i havent caused any long term damage to the wing by not strapping it up on the day of injury? she was kept in a nestbox for a couple of days but started to perk up so i let her out to walk around the loft,id be grateful for any advice as to what i should do next? thanx  kev

[Guest]

personally i think you should let nature take its cousre. over the next few weeks you will see an improvement. maybe she may never fly properly again , but like i have said before you can find many more uses for her.

[jimmy white]

i would agree with gerraint ,,kev let nature take its course, it may improve further, with the wing being free , and by using the wing , might strengthen the muscles a bit in the wing,, but maybe never be perfect , it may help by handling the bird each day and gently stretching the wing out and in a few times each day,, hope the bird improves anyway, best of luck.

[Guest]

Sounds like bird has taken a bad knock and is recovering, so would leave as is.  

 

Don't think the bird would be flying if anything was broken, had one break the radius which stopped it flying, and this broken bone was splint-bandaged to its neighbour, the ulna, for 6 weeks to heal, and did, and bird flew again as soon as bandage was removed.

 

Sounds more like bruising to me and while I've seen a vet use a spray to wet feathers and move them aside to reveal bruised flesh, I would just leave the bird to recover. Doubt whether it will see any training or racing this year tho.

[kev01293]

thanx 4 the replies lads,as u all agree on leaving the hen to heal up on her own then thats what im going to do  thanx again     kev  

[jimmy white]

had that with,, "sir colin" broken ulna bone [at 4 years old ] but vet was going to strap him up, but on finding he was sitting on floor on eggs said it would be better sitting 12 hours in the nest pan [less stress for him] but recovered obviosly never to race again , but flew well enough round the loft , but allways had that wing drooped for few mins after fly [often wonder how or if he would have performed if this had not happened] as this was relatively young for a distance bird , with the performances up to then ??

p,s this is when the vet told me that after a couple of weeks was to give him physio therapy in working gently with his wing, in case it seized up , which , worked really

[kev01293]

ive tried gently opening her wing today jim as u said and when i let it go it sort of went halfway back but she seems bright enough in herself so i will see how she go,s         kev