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    URGENT: Hatched chick that can’t walk

    I hatched out my first batch of turkey poults, and I’m very concerned for the first hatched. She can’t walk right or control her legs, and I’m not sure how to help. She’s about 24 hours old now, which I know is young, but I’ve hatched dozens of other chickens and peacocks and never had a chick...
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    • chicks injued leg splay leg turkeys urgent help needed
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    • Forum: Turkeys
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    Need help/advice/ideas to make Quackers a Happy Fellow

    Hi everyone! I am new here and will cut to the chase. Attached are photos of Quackers who was brought to an animal sanctuary due to the leg deformities you see. We hypothesize a mix of things including bow-legs and a slipped tendon. Wondering if anyone notices anything of note from these photos...
  3. Easy Brace For Splay Leg Chicks

    Easy Brace For Splay Leg Chicks

    This is my absolute favorite method for fixing splay legs. I wanted to share, in case it may help someone else. It works well for both feather leg and clean leg chicks! When you have a chick that is unable to stand or walk around properly within the first 24 hours, it can be very helpful to get...
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    • Category: Hatching Eggs & Raising Chickens
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    Splay/Spraddle leg - chick's knees and feet positioned strangely

    Hello, I have a week old chick with a case of splay leg. I have it's legs tied together and it seems to be getting better. However, it's feet are positioned out like ballerina feet and it's knees are very close together. I am wondering if this will eventually resolve itself or if I should do...
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    Splay leg or slipped tendon?

    My sister just rescued a chick and sent it to me last night. It's about 2 weeks old. The original owner didn't really check on the hatchlings until she took them to sell, one of them was injured or splayed and never got treatment. (She also left the incubator's turning function on and didn't put...
  6. dreamofwinter

    Newly hatched duckling with leg problem - neurological or just physical?

    This is my first time hatching ducklings. I normally receive them in the mail as (a few) day-olds. I hatched 7, and tucked them under a brooder plate atop puppy pads like I normally do. Well, the plate was too low, the pads too slippery, or both, because on checking several hours later I find...
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    Adult silkie with splay leg

    My little black silkie hen has splay leg. IDK how she got it, since I got her as an adult, but she seems to have trouble walking. Can splay leg be treated when they're adults? Would binding the legs together help? She can walk on her own, but she seems to have a lot of trouble. For the most...
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    Chick with leg issues/is there a chance it can adapt?

    I've previously posted about a chick I brought home with leg issues. It turned out to be a slipped tendon and despite my best efforts it could not be corrected. However, she is now almost a year old and aside from her messed up leg she is overall a healthy and happy chicken. She lays eggs, roams...
  9. miskyst

    EMERGENCY! 2-days old chick has splayed legs and bruised

    My chick is two days old and I just noticed this morning that it is not walking or sleeping on its feet like the others. It sleeps sitting on its butt, and whenever I try to help it seem to be in a lot of pain. Heels look bruised and swollen. Not eating or drinking. I had planned to make a...
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    • baby bird baby chicks curled toe emeregency splay leg splay legs
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    Grown Bantam Hen

    I inherited a grown Bantam Hen when my sister passed away. Unfortunately she was born with splay legs and my sister and her husband did not realize that is why she waddled instead of walking normally. She was getting around fine, just waddling and falling over some times but now she is not...
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    QUAIL CHICKS : SPLAY/SPRADLE LEG AND CURLED TOES

    Hi there, 17 of my quail hatched but 2 of them cant walk properly. Im having trouble figuring out their conditions. Is this splay/spraddle leg? One of the chicks toes seems to be curled up. They in general have trouble standing up and lifting themselves up. The one with the curled toes keeps...
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    Splayed leg or something else?

    This little Polish chick hatched 6/5. It was having trouble hatching after being pipped for almost 24 hours so I did help it hatch. Its left leg doesn’t seem to be very strong. We currently have a straw/hair tie set up trying to help but it still doesn’t seem to be helping. Today is the first...
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    Spraddle leg / splayed leg? 3 day old chick can't fully stand up and it leans on one side.

    3-4 day old chick can't fully stand up. It hobbles around pushing off of one leg and kinda lays on its side when its not moving. Its able to sit its self up and drink. It chirps a lot like its in distress. We tied its legs assuming its spraddle/splayed because we don't know what else it could...
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    Please help! Slipped tendon too far gone?

    https://ibb.co/zfyzxqs https://ibb.co/Jy0dtWk https://ibb.co/ZJQNCBz this baby is about 24 hours old. I fear she has a slip tendon or rotated femur. She constantly gets stuck on her back and has lots of trouble eating and drinking without complete assistance. I’m worried she’s in pain as she...
    • Commongroundcultivation
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    • #quail chick help please advise rescue slipped achilles tendon sos splay leg tendon tendon injury
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    • Forum: Quail
  15. hotmessmom

    Splay leg and removing from incubator

    Hey y’all! We are hatching some coturnix quail. We had about 7 hatch last night, that was late day 17, and a few more have pipped and are starting to zip this morning, early day 18! They are all looking fabulous and healthy, but I’m suspecting one chick that hatched last night has splay leg...
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    • coturnix incubator quail splay leg
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    • Forum: Quail
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    Still in incubator. Lethargic and splayed leg

    One of my silkies hatched but it has splay leg and seems lethargic. It has been in the incubator for 24 hrs now. I used vet wrap to make a splint for its legs but it still hasn’t walked. I tried sugar water and it seems to perk up for a second then lays back down. The other chicks went to a...
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    Splayed leg

    PLEASE HELP!!! I just brought home a wynodette baby with splay leg and I bandaged it with vet wrap. She won’t stop crying and she won’t stand all the way up… please please help!
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    Not just spraddle leg?

    I have a 48 hr plus chick. He was slow to hatch and I have been hobbling him for 24 hrs for spraddle leg. He can’t stand, he even with the Hubble. His feet almost go over his head. Am I supposed to hobble over the hock, to straighten it? ( knee…not sure what it’s called.)
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    Broken chick - please help!

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    Terrible quail hatch

    on exactly may 1st Murray McMurray delivered 25 California quail eggs to my house. All the eggs looked fine with no visible cracks I put them in my incubator set the temp and proper humidity. I am very new to this so I definitely did something wrong. 4 days ago day 23 of the hatch 4 hatched Day...
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