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UPDATE: I’m so glad I bothered to fix that chick’s curly toes! She ended up being the only female out of 7 chicks, and the only one I ended up keeping (because of that). And I know I wouldn’t have kept her with bent toes. So she really lucked out! She’s 5 months old now, and you can’t even...

Thanks! I'm so glad everything worked out. Some lessons learned there, too (clear bandaids! now I'll be recommending them to everybody doing foot splints).

Update: About a day or two after I put the clear bandaid splint on, I noticed that it had fallen off. And the chick's toe was straight and normal! Now all of its toes look normal, and it's running around being a little chick without problems and, importantly, without being bullied. The adoptive...

Thanks! She’s a Double Silver Laced Barnevelder, and the chicks are Lavender English Orpington.

Guys! Clear bandaids is the way to go! Barely visible, especially when walking through shavings! I have high hopes that this is going to save the day. The chick is ignoring the new splint, and so are the mom and the sibling. I’ll keep checking on them throughout the day, but this is looking so...

I’m going to check on it first thing in the morning, and will also go and get clear medical tape, hoping that if it’s less visible, they might peck less at it. The first splints were white medical tape, but it was too hard to get off, so today I used bandaids instead. Maybe if it’s something...

Splinting just one toe didn’t work, the whole thing was getting folded under. So I taped the toe next to it as well, for support. At first, the broody just looked at the tape up close and did nothing. However, when the chick itself started pecking at the tape, and its sibling joined in, they...

I’m going to try and splint just that one toe (instead of the whole foot like I did before). Hopefully that won’t be too obvious and the broody won’t fixate on trying to rip it off…

That's what I'm trying to figure out - how big of a problem is it going to be... Sometimes with something that may look bad, chickens turn out to live with it just fine and it doesn't bother them, so I wasn't sure if this might just be okay. If it has the potential to pinch circulation or...

This chick hatched with the two external toes on both feet folding in and under the feet. That's how it was walking around, on the bent toes. I gave it booties made out of medical tape as soon as I noticed (a few hours after hatch) and kept the booties on for 2 days. After I took them off, the...