Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have always thought that an elephant with one leg broken or damaged would not be able to walk.
I just saw an elephant on Animal Planet, with his right rear leg damaged. He was walking with the rest of the herd, keeping his damaged leg off the ground all the time.

Hummm...I had always been led to believe the same about elephants. Another myth goes down the drain.

Saeed,

One of my young hens recently had her leg horribly broken just at the ankle joint. I don't know how it happened but am assuming my horse stepped on her. It was looking gangrenous (turing green) and I was ready to euthanize her but noticed she was still able to get about slowly but easily on one foot. The color may have been bruising so I decided to seperate her from the rest of the birds. This was three weeks ago and she has hopped around on one foot up until yesterday. Things are looking up for her.

Anyway, animals can be amazingly adaptable, unlike us who remain mostly adaptable due to some sort of technology when we get severely injured.

If a chicken can get by on one leg then an ele can do so on three.

Ann, that reminds me of the onelegged roadrunner which hung around the auto repair shop I sometimes frequented some years back. The last I heard of her, she was raising a bunch of little ones.

It might have helped that her diet was supplemented by the guys at the shop.

Ann,when I was a kid we had a neighbor whose banty rooster had his foot cut off when a screen door slammed shut on it.
The old man of the family made the rooster a peg leg out of a 2-3/4 inch empty 410 shotshell. The bird got along as if he never lost the foot.

Bravo

i would have shot the chicken with the 410 2 3/4" shell

And had it for dinner...

Damn, you guys beat me to it.

But I had a black banty hen when I was a kid (Blacky...real original!) that I loved. She would roost in the tree in the backyard. She stayed in the yard most of the time. I loved her for many years.

Wow, you guys are sure sentimental about your "chicks". Gotta love it.

My poor little hen is even better today. I have one of my old biddies baby sitting her.

Still, kind of neat how nature can take care of itself.

Saeed,
I believe that only applies to the front legs Saeed, and I understand that is true, but you must break the leg bone clean in two...some times you can shoot and break the front leg or shoulder but until the put weight on it and snap the bone they can navigate..which means they can travel until the minute that bone give away to the wound.