1 week old quail with a leg injury

[kronus]

First time raising any birds. I have no idea how it was injured as there is only a heater and waterer in with them (maybe it jumped off the top of the brooder heater?). It had splayed legs when hatched but did well after a day of splinting.

At this time, it is walking and running around (just limping). Eating and drinking normally. I have no intention on letting it suffer, but I wanted some experienced input.

Thanks for reading

 

[Eggcessive]

Have you tried treating the chick with some B complex vitamins 1/4 tablet per day given crushed in a little food or a spoonful of water? It looks more like a leg bone deformity called valgus deformity or a twisted tibia. Those can occur in one or both legs. Here is a good link with pictures:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...ctious-skeletal-disorders-in-poultry-broilers

 

[Kiki]

I'd end it if it were mine.
There is no way to tell if it was born deformed or if you perhaps messed it up splinting it. I doubt it's leg will ever be 'normal' or straighten out.

 

[kronus]

Thank you both. Slight clarification. It was walking normally up until this morning and its leg didn't look like that before.

 

[kronus]

Have you tried treating the chick with some B complex vitamins 1/4 tablet per day given crushed in a little food or a spoonful of water? It looks more like a leg bone deformity called valgus deformity or a twisted tibia. Those can occur in one or both legs. Here is a good link with pictures:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...ctious-skeletal-disorders-in-poultry-broilers

No luck accessing that link. I can definitely start supplemental vitamins if that seems to be the consensus.

 

[Eggcessive]

It works fine for me. Are you in the US? Could it possibly have become dislocated or a slipped tendon? Here is a video of fixing a slipped hock tendon on a pea chick:

 

[kronus]

It works fine for me. Are you in the US? Could it possibly have become dislocated or a slipped tendon? Here is a video of fixing a slipped hock tendon on a pea chick:

Yes I'm in the US. I'll examine it and see if I can feel any tendon movement.