Feeding and Nutrition :: Blind and broken jawed turtle

[Lizzia]

Hi, I need help rehabilitating a RES whom we found on the road. He was bleeding from the nostrils and we took him to the vet. The vet gave him four weeks and said if he didn't eat by then it wasn't much he could do. Now it's been over four weeks and he is starting to swallow a combination of spring mix juice, zucchini juice, and fish oil all mixed together if I put the syringe way in the back of his throat. He is also starting to open his eyes; the right eye looks sunken in. Any suggestions on how to get this turtle eating on his own and maybe where I can release him to the wild, which is where he's lived all his life?
May God Bless everyone who took the time to read this!

[SINI5T3R]

thats a tough one. that turtle is a very lucky turtle to even be able to eat what your giving him if he was struck by a car or fell or something of the sort. i really dont have anything to offer as far as helping goes since it sounds like he is pretty beat up as it is and i myself would have NO idea what to do. does his mouth open up okay? if it does maybe you can buy some small minnows and prekill them and just toss them in his mouth or maybe grind them up into the juice you have been giving him that way he gets some nice fish or something or the sort?

Very lucky turtle! can you post a picture of him?

[steve]

Poor guy

I would keep doing what you're doing, maybe add some protein into the diet. How is his shell?

[blulite]

wow, personally i would have instructed the vet to put the little guy to sleep. even once he is released into the wild, if he is blnd he wont last very long. especially it he is blind and you never know if his sinuses are damaged. there is a cood chance he wont be able to smell either.