baby chick with injured leg

[babychickens321]

my neighbours baby chick has injured leg/joint he cant put weight on his leg keeps curling his toes and sticking his foot to his tummy. he hatched with a small cut on his hocks and she put iodine on it. the injury is gone and she said it scaled over or something but the scaled thing fell off yesterday. she put a plaster on his hocks and because of the plaster his legs came down a bit today and his toes unfurled but his leg keeps like spasming and flicking upwards whenever the plaster is on. He was the only one to hatch out of all the eggs (otherswerent fertile) and she has him in the incubator and hes 6 days old. he really cant walk hes always wobbling and falling to one side and flaps a lot when walking. hes been alone all these days, and i told her to get more chicks because hes lonely and in the meantime to keep him with a small teddy bear. i was thinking that keeping him in the incubator wasnt going to be good for him as its basically enclosed except for a hole on top and it might be too hot for him (35 degrees). the incubator doesnt have holes for eggs its just flat and has a heater blowing on one side.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

she has him in the incubator and hes 6 days old. he really cant walk hes always wobbling and falling to one side and flaps a lot when walking.

i was thinking that keeping him in the incubator wasnt going to be good for him as its basically enclosed except for a hole on top and it might be too hot for him (35 degrees). the incubator doesnt have holes for eggs its just flat and has a heater blowing on one side.

The joint looks like it may be infected and it's probably slipped as well.

Clean the joint/scab with an antiseptic and apply an antibiotic ointment.
If the tendon is slipped, you can try correcting that. I see you've been given info on that in previous posts.

A 6 day old chick needs to be in brooder. An incubator is just that, a device used to incubate eggs for hatching, once hatched and dried, chicks are moved to a brooder that has more room to move about to eat/drink, etc.
You do need to provide 1 warm spot in the brooder. A brooder plate, heating pad cave or heat lamp can be used to provide heat for the chick. The rest of the brooder can be room temp or cooler.

 

[WoDia]

I might be misreading the photos, but that looks like an infection.

 

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[WoDia]

my neighbours baby chick has injured leg/joint he cant put weight on his leg keeps curling his toes and sticking his foot to his tummy. he hatched with a small cut on his hocks and she put iodine on it. the injury is gone and she said it scaled over or something but the scaled thing fell off yesterday. she put a plaster on his hocks and because of the plaster his legs came down a bit today and his toes unfurled but his leg keeps like spasming and flicking upwards whenever the plaster is on. He was the only one to hatch out of all the eggs (otherswerent fertile) and she has him in the incubator and hes 6 days old. he really cant walk hes always wobbling and falling to one side and flaps a lot when walking. hes been alone all these days, and i told her to get more chicks because hes lonely and in the meantime to keep him with a small teddy bear. i was thinking that keeping him in the incubator wasnt going to be good for him as its basically enclosed except for a hole on top and it might be too hot for him (35 degrees). the incubator doesnt have holes for eggs its just flat and has a heater blowing on one side.

I tagged some members who may be able to help you.

 

[Debbie292d]

If you look at the picture here and the explanation, does this seem to be what it is? I do believe it may be the issue.

I'd have it on Poultry Cell in its water or the B-Complex Vitamin drops you can buy for their water. Not a cure but it'll help its muscles and bones.

https://poultrydvm.com/condition/slipped-tendon#:~:text=Slipped tendon often occurs in,genetics also influence its onset.

And an article on BYC showing how to fix it.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/peachick-with-slipped-tendon.1092979/

An excellent YouTube video showing how to fix slipped tendons.

 

[babychickens321]

anyone ?!

 

[babychickens321]

this is the injured chicks leg. i would be really grateful if anyone could help !!

 

[Stanpott]

Look up "how to fix a slipped tendon" in a chick? I don't know for sure, but it kind of sounds like the issue.

 

[Stanpott]

The worst part of a bad hatch isn't so much the disappointment of only a few hatching but more so that the chicks that do hatch are more likely to have issues! Spraddle leg is a common one and can usually be fixed...would it be spraddle leg?