Hi everyone, I'm not sure if anyone has experienced something like this, I'm worried it's super unique and I'm unsure what is best for my boy

I had a large flight cage with several gouldians, two society finches, and there were 6 zebra finches. When my boyfriend was coming every two days to look after my finches when I was away for a week, one male and female pair escaped out the door when he was cleaning up inside in the evening and I was in a different time zone asleep at the time, long story short he took over half an hour to catch them with a net to get them inside again and he didn't know such prolonged stress and exertion was dangerous for finches, the pair passed away by the time he was back.

I was left with 4 zebra finches, and a while later one of the males got his leg caught in a nest, I guess there was a space created from the finches pulling and pecking at the material. I found him hanging upside down stuck one morning and got him out, but his ended up necrotizing so I had to get it removed surgically at my avian vet.

I was told by the vet light birds like finches do fine typically if they lose a leg as they can balance still vs a large parrot on his experiences had a harder time with balance.

The opposite happened however, he still moves around and eats and all, but he does not fly even if I take him out and helped him practice with little tosses, because he can't balance I suppose. His female partner passed away recently (she was an older rescue), and the remaining female I've noticed kept poking her head under him. I never saw feathers plucked, but shortly after he lost many feathers. I've moved him to his own small cage now and am at a loss of what to do. He is alone but the cage is beside my main cage so they can hear eachother, but I don't know what to do for his well-being. He always is trying to look for the other finches and jumping around wanting to get out and go back to the main cage, but he was plucked of a bunch of feathers by the female zebra.

I don't know if it's best to try to rehome him, but I worry on how successful trying to introduce a flightless cage bottom-dwelling zebra finch to another normal zebra would be, if he would just get bullied and/or plucked all over again. And I worry about even being able to find someone willing to do what is needed to ensure a good quality of life for him (soft blanketed surfaces, vet wrap on platforms, more lengthy cage cleaning procedures, inevitably of him hopping into food dishes and getting seeds everywhere, etc).

If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate your input, thanks so much

(Photo is of my one hand tamed gouldian finch Sue)

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