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I have no idea. It was like that when the lady dropped him off, I just didn't realize it at the time. I noticed his hand looked a little funny immediately, but I thought it was just the way he was sitting. I didn't want to stress him out to much immediately, so I left it alone until the next morning (yesterday.) I am feeling pretty bad for him right about now.... I gave him a very good once over, and other then being wrinkly and dehydrated and his arm, he looks okay. I am going to take a guess that the arm has been broken for a while.

He pooped for the first time this morning which made me very happy!!!
Since I have had him (Friday afternoon) I have been hand feeding him chicken baby food with a drop of probiotic yogurt twice a day, with miner-all and liquid calcium from a syringe 1x daily. He is very good with the hand feeding, He will lap it up from a spoon or dish or etc. and plunge his face in it like he is drinking... I have to pull him out and wipe his little face and make sure he breathes or else he will get little bubbles and sneeze from over doing it. But if I put anything solid in front of him, even wiggly bugs, he won't even look at it. I also have not seen him drink any water either.

He is getting to be quite snuggly with me... He will sit in my hand, sit on my leg or crawl into my hoody pocket. When I handle him I try to hold completely still and just let him be, as to not stress him out any more then nessesary. If anything else scares him he will freak and huff and run TOWARDS me and hide in my shirt. Its pretty adorable.

The enclosure he came with was filled with childrens sandbox sand and some kind of bark/mulch. There were mealworm skeleton shells all over in it and a GIANT beetle and a spider. Today I put a little drop of mineral oil in his food and soaked him for a while, and when he finally pooped his poop basically looked like wet sand. I dumped it all out, and replaced his bedding with an article of soft clothing to lay on top of or burrow into. No substrate for him until he is eating and pooping and everything regularly and healthily. Also I bought him a SolarGlo too!

<blockquote data-quote="megasaurus" data-source="post: 123687" data-attributes="member: 3312">I have no idea. It was like that when the lady dropped him off, I just didn't realize it at the time. I noticed his hand looked a little funny immediately, but I thought it was just the way he was sitting. I didn't want to stress him out to much immediately, so I left it alone until the next morning (yesterday.) I am feeling pretty bad for him right about now.... I gave him a very good once over, and other then being wrinkly and dehydrated and his arm, he looks okay. I am going to take a guess that the arm has been broken for a while. He pooped for the first time this morning which made me very happy!!!Since I have had him (Friday afternoon) I have been hand feeding him chicken baby food with a drop of probiotic yogurt twice a day, with miner-all and liquid calcium from a syringe 1x daily. He is very good with the hand feeding, He will lap it up from a spoon or dish or etc. and plunge his face in it like he is drinking... I have to pull him out and wipe his little face and make sure he breathes or else he will get little bubbles and sneeze from over doing it. But if I put anything solid in front of him, even wiggly bugs, he won't even look at it. I also have not seen him drink any water either. He is getting to be quite snuggly with me... He will sit in my hand, sit on my leg or crawl into my hoody pocket. When I handle him I try to hold completely still and just let him be, as to not stress him out any more then nessesary. If anything else scares him he will freak and huff and run TOWARDS me and hide in my shirt. Its pretty adorable.The enclosure he came with was filled with childrens sandbox sand and some kind of bark/mulch. There were mealworm skeleton shells all over in it and a GIANT beetle and a spider. Today I put a little drop of mineral oil in his food and soaked him for a while, and when he finally pooped his poop basically looked like wet sand. I dumped it all out, and replaced his bedding with an article of soft clothing to lay on top of or burrow into. No substrate for him until he is eating and pooping and everything regularly and healthily. Also I bought him a SolarGlo too!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="megasaurus, post: 123687, member: 3312"] I have no idea. It was like that when the lady dropped him off, I just didn't realize it at the time. I noticed his hand looked a little funny immediately, but I thought it was just the way he was sitting. I didn't want to stress him out to much immediately, so I left it alone until the next morning (yesterday.) I am feeling pretty bad for him right about now.... I gave him a very good once over, and other then being wrinkly and dehydrated and his arm, he looks okay. I am going to take a guess that the arm has been broken for a while. He pooped for the first time this morning which made me very happy!!! Since I have had him (Friday afternoon) I have been hand feeding him chicken baby food with a drop of probiotic yogurt twice a day, with miner-all and liquid calcium from a syringe 1x daily. He is very good with the hand feeding, He will lap it up from a spoon or dish or etc. and plunge his face in it like he is drinking... I have to pull him out and wipe his little face and make sure he breathes or else he will get little bubbles and sneeze from over doing it. But if I put anything solid in front of him, even wiggly bugs, he won't even look at it. I also have not seen him drink any water either. He is getting to be quite snuggly with me... He will sit in my hand, sit on my leg or crawl into my hoody pocket. When I handle him I try to hold completely still and just let him be, as to not stress him out any more then nessesary. If anything else scares him he will freak and huff and run TOWARDS me and hide in my shirt. Its pretty adorable. The enclosure he came with was filled with childrens sandbox sand and some kind of bark/mulch. There were mealworm skeleton shells all over in it and a GIANT beetle and a spider. Today I put a little drop of mineral oil in his food and soaked him for a while, and when he finally pooped his poop basically looked like wet sand. I dumped it all out, and replaced his bedding with an article of soft clothing to lay on top of or burrow into. No substrate for him until he is eating and pooping and everything regularly and healthily. Also I bought him a SolarGlo too! [/QUOTE]

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