Sreve_of_Sandspoutry,,on the first page of this thread you say you put peachicks down with spraddle legs? If you take 10 minutes time once you move them from the incubator to the brooder within 2 days this problem can be corrected 100% .If you can locate small rubber bands,such as those used on braces on your childs teeth,,and a paper stapler,,lay both rubber bands across the outside edge of the"die" part of the stapler,the actual part that bends the staples ends over,,staple these two rubber bands together,,then open each rubber band up and slide one over each leg,,this will hold the legs together under the peachick,,and since it doesn't need to eat-drink for a day after it hatches,,it will learn to get around some. You can dip the beak in the water supply a few times the second day,,and throw some crumbles in front of it to see and eat. But to dispose of a peachick that takes only a few minutes to help,.and within 2 days it will be 100% okay seems like such a waste to me.I have noticed 99% of all splayed legs occurs when peachicks takes longer than 24 hrs from pip to actually being out of the shell completely.And once I do this every peachick has made a 100% recovery,,easy fix,,for a bird valued at $20-$35 or more once it hatches,,thats 5 gallons or more of gas now,,,may get me around the block twice,,but every bit helps nowdays.The finished rubber band assist will look something like this, O-O with the staple between each rubber band,yet bent over as it is when stapling paper on each rubber band.
