Help!!!! Chick with crooked toes!!!!

[crazyforchicks]

I have a chick that was born with crooked toes! Any ideas on what to do for her?

 

[FMAFarms]

According to Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, page 333: Crooked toes in a newly hatched chick may be straightened with Band-Aids or first-aid tape cut to size and wrapped around the toes to hold them in normal position. If the toes are going to straighten out, they should do so within a day or two as the bones harden.

It also says not to include crooked-toe chickens in your breeder flock, as they're likely to produce future crooked-toe generations. But a crooked toe chicken can lay just fine. Good luck!

 

[Imp]

Here's a thread about it with pictures. Hope it helps:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=72885

Imp

 

[Winggedheart]

You can straighten them out, like stated above. But also, I wouldn't worry. We have a few birds with crooked toes, and they are full-grown now, and healthy, having hatched like that. Your little baby should be fine either way, though you wouldn't be able to show him/her like that.