Here is a roughie success story. This is CARTER, another young bird that met a vehicle on the road. She suffered a fractured right leg that made it impossible for her to stand long enough to take flight. That's a good thing. She would have starved to death having only one foot to catch prey. When Nic and Joyce Patrick saw her alongside the road near their home they immediately gathered her up and brought her to IBR. I then took her into Dr. Malcolm Blessing for x-rays. The break was mid shaft femur, a good place if you're going to have a broken bone. The problem was it was so even that it looked as if someone had sawed through the bone. Dr. Blessing then put an internal pin the length of the bone and added two connected external pins (X-fix) to the outside to keep the ends from twisting.
CARTER then spent six weeks in a small cage before the X-fix pins were removed. Another two weeks and the internal pin came out. This photo shows her up on the tallest perch in her mew, about 15 feet up in the air. She is now able to navigate from the floor to the perch very easily. She rips and tears her food with strength, I don't have to open the rats for her anymore. She will be released probably next month so she can make the migration back to where she was hatched. THAT IS WHAT MAKES THIS ALL WORTHWHILE !
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