leg brace

With my latest hatch: here's the details... Last chick to hatch was about 4 days behind the first, and needed help. I essentially did an egg cesarean. Now, I may have caused the problem, but was worried it wasn't going to be able to hatch on its own. Things didn't look great... it was still...

Got this little lady born Tuesday, and noticed today she was sleeping with her legs out, splayed. She was getting around to get food and water, but I but a brace on her. Now she won't get up and walk anymore! How do I convince her to walk around? First picture is when she was laying down. Sorry...

I got a chick from a friend at 4 days old. She seemed to think the knee was dislocated so she put the leg in a splint. We kept it on for a week and the chick didn't use the leg much but still got around. When we took it off the chick had a cast sore but not unmanageable. Now the leg is kinda...

I’ve had chickens for 6 years and have raised lots of chicks. Have dealt with spraddle leg before but this doesn’t appear to be the same. This bantam Cochin just hatched last night and had appeared fine in the incubator the first few hours. Then progressively “her” little legs would only go out...

We hatched some chicks in school a couple weeks ago, but timed it really poorly and they hatched over spring break (teacher took the incubator to her house so they weren't unsupervised). Nine out of twelve hatched, and one of them has really bad spraddle leg. Problem is, they don't just stick...

(Edited title to match the new diagnosis, used to be "Chick having trouble adjusting to leg brace") I had a hatch of several chicks this past weekend. One chick seemed to have a moderate splayed leg from hatch, but I've had chicks in the past who looked like they had splayed leg but just had...

this little one is nearly 3 days old now and hasn't been able to walk, just sort of hobbles along/slides itself forward. at first we thought it was a bad case of splayed leg and made a brace for it but now are afraid it might be something worse since it does not like to use its right leg at all...

I have a chick who has one spraddle leg. I tried to correct it first using a rubber band and a straw, then using self-adhesive wrap. The chick is now about a week old, it's leg doesn't seem to be getting any closer to normal, and the leg (or rather the joint) looks like it is swelling up. I'm...

I am brand new to duck breeding, and I had 8 ducklings hatch yesterday. They are with their mom in a safe duckling area in my barn with a brooding area set up. I have one duckling that I just removed because it was getting trampled and looked in bad shape. It's leg is bent up to it's body and...

I created this simple Article to help with BYCers with new born chicks with Splayed legs. I have seen many posts on the subject and want to help. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-we-correct-splayed-legs-on-new-chicks.72873/ I hope the article is useful and you have good fortune with...