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No Chicken Little: Massachusetts Woman's Chicken Getting $2,500 Prosthetic Leg
Massachusetts Woman's Chicken Getting $2,500 Prosthetic Leg
CLINTON, Mass. — Aug 3, 2015, 8:02 AM ET 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 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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