duffyblue

Our new neighbor has two breeding pair of CAGs and we re enjoying the beautiful noises that are coming from her townhouse. We stopped by today to see her latest arrival, only one of the last clutch of eggs hatched. She made a major move during this time and may have lost the others due to fluctuating temps. Anyway, she pointed out that this little chick has lost one toe on each foot. The vet she uses has helped her save the rest of the toes but I am curious as too how common this is. Have any of you ever heard of this before. My wife and I are considering getting a bird from her but we are trying to learn as much as possible first. I frequent the wood working groups and found this one a couple of weeks ago. We are enjoying the give and take here and learning a lot about grays. We had a "yellow bill" while we lived in Jamaica. (That may be a local name) Wonderful little fellow who was very entertaining. We had to leave Jamie there, they were protected from export. Gave her to a nice family. Any thoughts on the toe loss mentioned above?

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