Pure Madness!!! Crippled Chicken To Get $2,500 Leg surgery (See Photo)

                   This is really Weird and Odd, but absolutely True. Not only crippled humans would be getting prosthetic legs, so also would a Chicken be fitted with one.A hen owned by a Massachusetts woman who specializes in chicken rehabilitation and rescue is getting fitted with a prosthetic leg Wednesday at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.Andrea Martin, of Clinton, says she is paying for the $2,500 operation out of her own pocket. She says the alternative is euthanization. The chicken, named Cecily, was born with a damaged tendon in the leg that makes it useless.

               The surgery will begin when Emi Knafo, a specialist in avian orthopedics, will amputate Cecily's right leg.After a 10- to 14-day recovery period, the prosthetic, made on a 3-D printer, will be fitted.Similar surgery has been performed on a rooster and duck, though not at Tufts.- 

 

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