The Seattle Times · Aug 3, 2015
Massachusetts woman’s chicken getting $2,500 prosthetic leg
CLINTON, Mass. (AP) — This chicken leg isn’t for eating.
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, tells The Telegram & Gazette (http://bit.ly/1DVRpAj ) 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.