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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    I feel your pain, but there will be peace at knowing you did what was best for the chick. Enjoy the others. I wish it had gone differently.
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    The expert said they had only successfully got a chick through it once and wouldn't attempt it again, the chick never thrived and the treatment was hard on it. to even attempt this would be a long, hard road, and I think unfair to the chick. I nursed my Lucy for 11 days and still had to cull, if...
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    I am so sorry, am crying for you now. Puss means the joint is infected, the chick is suffering and would require too much for just the slimmest chance of fixing it and from when I went through this with my Lucy, the expert said it is too much to put the chick through. I am sorry.
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    Yes, I am worrying right along with you, I am bad about that. When it is back in you will see a small ridge at the top/back of the joint. It will not look flat anymore. Will look kind of like your elbow, pointy. Just look at the back of one of the others and compare. It may slip back out and...
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    I am so sorry I wasn't more clear. This will cause the chick no pain at all, if anything it is uncomfortable now and this will give it relief. It will not snap or anything. You will just gently lift the leg back and straighten. This is my 5 week old Pansy, noticed how relaxed he is, no pain.
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    Honestly it just looks like that tendon is slipped. it pulls the leg tightly into the bent position. If you can try to put it back you should be able to see if it is fixable. The leg pulled back like I described is like when they stretch themselves, I hold onto the upper part of the leg and...
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    Just realized it is a Jersey Giant, Hubby wants some, but larger chick should improve chances of recovery. My Lucy was a sebright, very tiny.
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    yep, I am right here and will help all I can.
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    if it would help you I can use one of my chicks and take a picture. I had to make a chick chair for my chick with both tendons out and was able to finally fix the tendons but her little bones twisted and at that point she was done fighting and I had to put her down, so I understand how hard this is.
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    The easiest way is to gently straighten the leg behind the chick, like if you stand up and point your toe behind you. it is hard to straighten the leg in the normal position but when you move the leg back the tendon will pop right into the proper position. Don't force it, it should move easily...
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    also give vitamins, powdered poultry vitamins in the water or baby liquid vitamins without iron, poly-vi-sol.
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    the easiest way to slip it back in is to gently straighten the leg behind the chick and it will slip back in. You may need to brace it or it may stay in on it's own. I made braces out of pipe cleaners and flexible medical tape. link to poultry orthopedist http://www.voy.com/194762/ also pics of...
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    Chick with strange leg issue? Help please!

    Slipped tendon can be fixed if caught early enough. Is the hock joint flat looking in the back? It will look flat if the tendon is out.
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