Achilles tendon or something else? Please help, she seems to be worse.

[Djgm]

So I hatched a Golden Laced Orpington on Sunday. From the get go, I knew there were leg problems. She stayed in the position like she was still in the egg (I had to help her out, she was starting to shrink wrap.) First I thought it was splay leg, and put the little hobbles on her. Then I researched more (seriously, thank you to everyone who's ever answered questions here!!!) .... all she did was belly crawl, not really using the one leg, even with hobbles...which led me to thinking it was the achilles tendon. So I tried to get the tendon in correctly, felt that little POP, and braced her with vet wrap starting above the hock ending below, and placed her in the little chick sling, legs hanging overnight. Now it's been about 48 hours in that, and while before she was moving that leg, she's not now, it's almost just hanging there when I hold her. I tried to let her put a little weight on it when I changed the vet wrap, she's not even putting the foot down. I didn't feel the tendon back out of place, but I'm worried maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's not her achilles? Could it be something else? Have I missed researching another possible problem? She's chirping away, seems super alert, doesn't seem to have any other issues, it's just this dang leg. No, I don't have the parents here, she was a shipped surprise egg in my Ayam cemani order, and they're all ok.

Just some backstory here, we had a massive storm blow through, and lost power for three days for days 10-12 in the incubator. I did plug the incubator into the generator, but we had some serious issues with our generator, and the temps did drop to 93-94 for slight periods (maybe an hour or two, two times) could that have caused this?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can you post some photos?

Some leg issues are very hard to correct and some you may not be able to correct at all.

 

[Djgm]

Can you post some photos?

Some leg issues are very hard to correct and some you may not be able to correct at all.

I feel terrible for her, and I don’t wanna hurt her more.

 

[Djgm]

She cannot stand at all on her own, and it's almost as if her right hock wants to bend forward not backward. She seems to chirp less when I bend the hock for her correctly.

 

[Djgm]

I culled her, she was in too much pain.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm very sorry about your chick.

 

[Infinitydreamer]

I’m so sorry about your chick.

Our very favorite hen dislocated her leg joint and was in a similar state recently. I assumed too that it was the tendon, but it didn’t get better. By the time we were able to get into a vet 10 days later it was beyond repair. We loved her enough to look into amputation and prosthetics, but we had to let her go. I feel like if we’d been able to identify and treat it sooner it might have healed.

 

[Djgm]

Thank you guys...I'm sorry about your hen as well Infinity.... It's so rough loosing them. She was my first to have to put down....then I went and gave my chicks sooooo many pets & loving.