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  1. Silkies4everr

    Crooked Feet?

    Thought I should update with this since this hatch so far is really successful. Got a new incubator from Brinsea. My second batch of eggs had been started in a different incubator before I gave the chickens vitamins. So when the new incubator arrived I moved them to the new one. Anyway...
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    Crooked Feet?

    I can probably pick up some unmedicated chick starter later.
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    Crooked Feet?

    I heard the medicated chick feed blocked vitamin B or something similar if fed for too long which is why we swap them over eventually.
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    Crooked Feet?

    We feed them chick starter for a few weeks then swap them over to wet chicken feed until their beaks are big enough to eat it dry. We also have oyster shell available for the hens.
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    Crooked Feet?

    I moved all the silkie chicks into the brooder yesterday, they're all walking around fine. Keeping the remaining bantam chick in the incubator with food and water until it is a bit more confident with its hobble. I'll probably move the bantam chick into the brooder with the others tomorrow...
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    Crooked Feet?

    I have some gauze for people that's pretty similar I can use. I have thermometer things that show the humidity as well as temperature. The incubator I used for lockdown is a fairly large one so the temperature is not always consistent throughout the entire space of it, I placed the eggs in...
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    Crooked Feet?

    Last night the 10th chick finally hatched out by itself, I noticed it had curled toes so the plan is to fix them this morning now that it's fluffed up. It has feathered legs so I'm going to have to put something near the feathers so they don't get pulled out by the tape when I take it off...
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    Crooked Feet?

    They're all from my chickens. If I remember correctly I have six hens and one rooster in the bantam pen. They're barely laying right now as it's going towards winter here.
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    Crooked Feet?

    Only the bantams had issues. Silkies were all fine. First two hatched on their own (crooked foot one and split tendon one), third one had to be assisted (curled toes) Edit: I also put 18 eggs into lockdown, had 9 hatch, one in the process right now, and the rest were all dead.
  10. Silkies4everr

    Crooked Feet?

    Where the tendon in the leg is in the wrong spot so the leg can't bend at the joint.
  11. Silkies4everr

    Crooked Feet?

    Okay two of the three chicks have the things on their feet now. On closer inspection of the third it has split tendon in both legs which I don't have the skill level to fix.
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    Crooked Feet?

    Okay, looks easy to follow. I'll do that for all of them. Had to take the tape off of one of the chicks because it wasn't walking well, looks like it probably needs a hobble.
  13. Silkies4everr

    Crooked Feet?

    Do you have a photo of it I can use for reference?
  14. Silkies4everr

    Crooked Feet?

    Okay, I'll try that. Thank you!
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    Crooked Feet?

    This chick hatched out yesterday and the feet appear crooked. Could also be the toes I'm unsure. Both of the other bantam chicks that hatched had a folded under toe which I've taped into place, they hatched at the same time and in the same incubator as the silkies but only the bantams have...
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