 My name is Dr. Daniel Pang. I'm an assistant professor in the veterinary clinical and diagnostic sciences department at UCVM. Through working in one of our local clinics where we do clinical research, I'd heard about a rooster that they'd had turned into them that unfortunately lost both of its feet probably due to frostbite. As a result of having an office a couple of doors down from Dr. Mark Ungren for a few months, I knew that he had a 3D printer in his laboratory. We thought that perhaps there'd be the possibility of him building or printing out 3D feet for this rooster to use as prosthetics. My name is Douglas Condrow and I'm a mechanical engineering student at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary and I'm specializing in biomedical engineering. I was given the project to create some sort of prosthetic for this rooster so that he'd be able to walk normally and live a normal life. My first steps were just to look through different feet. So for example I had a T-Rex foot that I printed off. I had some simple rooster feet that I printed off and these were hopefully something that I could use as templates for the model but what I found it was quite difficult to find exactly what I needed so I used a turkey foot and I 3D scanned that in and that's where I got the model itself. I would use the 3D printer and these 3D printers print with PLA which is a hard plastic. This is an example of the 3D foot that I would use as a template and once I was completed I'd take a mold of his foot itself and put it place it in and I'd paint on silicone onto it which was flexible and soft for the rooster and I'd get a final product where the foot itself is quite sturdy and quite flexible. Even though things really started out purely by chance this collaboration is really a very good example of how clinical sciences can tie in with basic researchers to try and solve a very real and very very acute problem. Working on creating prosthetics or simulators for animals or humans is something that is my end goal and working on a project like this was a really good opportunity for me to pursue that. If things work out well in the long term there's certainly possibility of looking into exploring other avenues either with other brands with similar kinds of damage or other species such as dogs and cats.