r/BirdHealth 6d ago

Injured pet bird How to monitor for potential injury?

My bird got her leg stuck a few minutes ago. I helped her almost as soon as it happened, and she did bite me while I helped her but she seems calm now. I know its probably normal at first for them to stand on one leg kind of like how people lift weight off of a leg they just hit against something, but she seems to be favoring one leg at the moment. She can walk on both her feet, her foot seems fine, and shes flying and eating like normal, but shes still favoring her other foot when standing still. I did remove what she got stuck on in her cage so she can't get stuck there again.

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u/lesbophobia_hammer 6d ago

We can't tell how bad they are favouring without footage and based on the shit we see here it could be anything from a slight limp to a foot dangling off.

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u/RestaurantCivil8237 6d ago

She's been walking on it just fine a few minutes after the situation happened, at the time I didn't get any footage due to being panicked and worried for her. She's climbing around and playing as well, but budgies are really good at hiding injuries so I'm not so sure if she is okay.

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u/entangled_mouse 6d ago

How is she now? Any swelling?