Today I learned: toes will come off baby sultans very easily

[rosegal]

While cleaning the toes on my feather footed sultan I noticed a toe bleeding and missing. The only thing I can think is that happened because yuk was stuck on her toes. Now I will be washing their feet constantly until they get bigger....I feel like a terrible mom for not thinking about this. There was also another one that had a toe nail missing when I was washing her feet. Just fyi.

 

[Frannabelle]

I have baby bantam sultans, 3 weeks old. Their toes are not having any issues. Is someone in the brooder pecking off the toes possibly?

 

[AKsmama]

I agree with Frannabelle- sounds like someone in the brooder is pecking toes. I've never heard of any chick's toes coming off because they were dirty.

 

[RGWright]

My experience has always been pecking at the toes. Usually a larger breed does that to them. I always put my bantams in different brooders now, which has stopped that from happening. (Of course, this was about 10 years ago when all of this happened).

 

[rosegal]

I have been thinking about this all day. And, yes I think another must have pecked at the food stuck to the feathers and took the toe with it. She appears to be doing fine and I had held her until the bleeding stopped. But, now I am worried about feathered feet babies. I haven't ever had this problem before with my other feathered footed babies.