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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Thank you for that suggestion I will give it a shot if I see her improvements slow or reverse. At this point I'm putting her in her chair for about 6 hours a day. The rest of the time I let her rough it on pine shavings. No sling. With her sister. When she's totally exhausted I remove her sister...
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Encouraging news people. I don't know what has happened in the past hour since I took that last video but I'm now seeing a very small amount of movement in her leg. Not much but shes definitely bringing it forward, placing it on the ground lightly and switching to her good leg quickly. Her...
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    The leg bends correctly with help yes. She holds her foot like she's got a thorn in her foot pad. Straight up. No angle. If it wasn't beginning to look atrophied it would appear nothing was all that wrong until you inspect where her hip joints are. She doesn't move it at all as far as I can...
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Yeah I don't know, I'm beginning to lose hope with her loss of appetite.. I've put her back into her sling, and she's ate quite a bit so far. But 0 water. I just don't understand why she has no use of her leg. The tendon runs right up the back of the hock joint. I've probed up and down her...
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Look at the difference at the position of her femurs left and right. The good hip/femur joint relaxes almost down to the bad legs hock joint... I don't understand what that is.. I've removed her splint and I'm letting her struggle through the night without the sling tonight. She looks rather...
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    So that's about a 95*-100* angle you think?
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Ah thank you! I will try that. After a few hours with the splint off color has came back to her toes. Her hock is still pretty swollen but the color looks much better. She's still without her new splint while I wait for answers to the above. She's also no longer crying when I bend her leg. She...
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Should I re-splint bent or straight?
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    So I've been driving around all over looking for vet tape and didn't find anything that's cloth and that also pulls from hair gently. So instead I went to riteaid and picked up a gentle paper tape that I plan on covering with strong hold cloth tape. I took the straw splint off her today. The...
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Thanks. I've been giving all of them a vitamin and probiotic supplement in their water since I got them. I'll spend tonight reading what you've posted and see if I can implement some of it's advice. Yes I'm not really sure why the ankle has started to swell. Especially after giving her...
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    Hello from Washington!

    Hey all My name is Bruce and I'm from Washington, USA. I've read many forum posts here and was forced to post myself when a chick of mine was delivered injured and I needed to request help. If you know anything of leg injuries please help us! Thank you and have a great day!
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    Chick with broken/sprained/slipped tendon needs help

    Hello fellow brooders Recently purchased a mixed batch of chicks from meyers hatchery. Before I go too far MH is amazing. I got 2 buff brahmas, 2 dark brahmas, an easter egger, a golden wyandotte, and a golden buff. All that is beside the point but this is what I saw when I got them home...
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