Baby Chick has Deformed Feet?

[remington3006]

i have a almost 1 year old roo that has curled toes and he gets around just fine and he is the dominant roo to

 

[HHandbasket]

We hatched out a chick yesterday with the feet completely curled up. I am doing the cardboard shoe thing, but the feet look/feel like they're not quite fully formed. I'm going to boost him with vitamins and hope that helps. And it's an OBVIOUS him... born with thick legs and a micro-comb. Mixed breed, have no idea what he is, but he is our "miracle chick", so we named him Milagro (Spanish for "miracle"). He pipped and stayed in the shell for 2 solid days and was obviously stuck. Yesterday afternoon, after watching this poor chick struggle in the egg for 2 days (was about 60% zipped with giant chunks of shell out, just couldn't get past that point), I steamed up the bathroom, took the egg in there to help him out, and that shell LITERALLY just fell away from him.. it was a hard, thick shell & I don't think he would have been able to make it out on his own! Anyway, he's HUGE, otherwise very vigorous and is in the brooder this morning drinking sugar water and trying to run on his little cardboard-and-bandaid booties I made him. (When we were putting the "shoes" on him, we joked about naming him "Reebok".) Oddly enough, even with his feet curled beneath him, he was still running around the bator and then the brooder like it was no big deal.

He's got a strong constitution & I hope he grows out of this crooked foot thing. I could see him very quickly becoming my favorite.

 

[nicokl502]

i have a 4 month old with the same thing and see is fine she the boss lol

 

[pddtovar]

Thanks for the information! I wondered what caused that. I have a chick that hatched out with two curled feet. How do you add vitamins to the hens diet? What food is best?:cool

 

[chattabox]

I have three baby guineafowls, they are african birds and very similar to chickens. To find out more about them, search them on google. My friend stumbled upon three eggs and gave them to me, since I love to raise birds, about a week later, they hatch. Two hatched on September 29th, and the last on October 1st. The second one came out with curled feet, and the last came out with one curled foot, but other than that, they are perfectly healthy and act like any other guineafowl. (The last baby guineafowl I had about a year ago had normal feet, then its feet curled over time, and I didn't know what to do, then it just died.) Anyway, the two curled footed fowls are only about a day old now, and would it be OK for me to put the cardboard shoes on them so early?

 

[MuckyPuppy]

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I personally think that the earlier the shoes are put on the better it works.

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