Entry #42: Jacob's Bootaaayy

5/13/13
11:13pm

So the last little guy to hatch was Jacob. And he had a very hard time coming out of his shell as you guys remember. So my parents had to help him out quite a bit. And as you guys read last post, poooor whittle Jacob has a deformed foot :( his toes curl inwards instead of spreading out flat.

Well taaadaaaa

He's healed!!!....sorta. We made him a little bootie, just like in the link I posted last time! He's kind of pissed at me though..as shown in the picture. He's just rockin' the new style is all. It's just the sticky part of a bandaid folded over. It was kind of a struggle actually, getting that thing on. It literally took me and my mom and my dad. And all the while, Jacob is screaming bloody murder. You'd actually think we were torturing him by the way he peeped! For their size they make sooo much noise when they want to! We spread his toes out so they would be normal, if he could walk normally, and then just folded it over. Now he walks kind of funny..and looks even funnier! But it's better than before! I'm not sure why his foot is deformed. It's really not that bad actually, it just seems like he has no muscles in his toes or something. I'm not 100% sure. It didn't seem to hurt him when I touched his foot or anything so thats a good sign!

I tried putting him in the other cage with the other chicks but they were way too interested in his sweet kicks and would just peck at it! Jacob just doesn't really have the strength to be in a cage with four of his siblings just constantly pecking at his poor little foot:( So I decided to keep him in the incubator for a little more time.

My mom is going to contact someone at Cornell who has another heat lamp so I can put Jacob in his own cage. That way I can properly teach him how to eat and drink! So far he'll only take water droplets from the tips of my fingers which is just wayyyy too cute :) my mom saw him take some water from my finger and she almost cried hahaha.

He's adorable. He's the runt of the family and he's by far my favorite of them all. Maybe it's because the other little chickies are more agressive...or maybe it's because I'm the runt of the family in my family, so I sympathize with him.