any jews on SHEDRtwt? i wanna get back into the swing of things but I also wanna get back into yk,,, being a better jew. real hard when jew rules tell you to take care of your body
I am hoping that the vet finds this as interesting as I do, and I can learn more about it. I am also hoping that he adapts to indoor life because it will be easiest to manage his risks indoors. It would probably also be nice for Boog to have some pigeon shaped company.
We see the vet on Thursday to get a better idea of what to do, and if I can afford it, I will be getting an xray. The vets who have responded to me are very curious and surprised he has survived this long. Split keel is so rare that finding anything at all on line is difficult.
Now that I’m watching closely, I can tell he has a wide stance and has trouble standing on slippery surfaces. His flight is still pretty normal, but I can tell he struggles just a little bit. Without knowing what to look for he seems totally normal. (Water has vitamins!)
He eats, drinks, bathes, flies, and scuffles like a totally normal bird, I’ve never noticed a single weird thing about his behavior. I’ve brought him inside for now to closely monitor him and assess where to go from here. (Cage extremely temporary, he’s in a big kennel now!)
Here is where you might be thinking, Maree, how didn’t you notice this SIGNIFICANT ISSUE during three weeks of hand feeding and times you’ve held him for parasite treatments? I don’t have a good answer, except I thought, “huh he’s kinda flat chested for a bird”
Most birds with this deformity don’t survive. Here he is at two weeks old, when I decided to start hand feeding him. If I hadn’t pulled him, he likely would have died. Two of his full siblings this year have died in the nest shortly after hatching, possibly bc of split keel.
Rotisserie has what’s called a Split Keel, where the keel bone is severely shortened, creating an inverted V between the ribs that exposes the heart and other vital organs. He is missing this entire bone, or at least a large majority of it.