Baby Chick leg problem

[Wildsky]

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yep chicken diapers - for house chickens!

 

[Katy]

NOT in my house.....at least not past a couple of weeks old!!

 

[horseemom]

Okay I need Pictures!!!?

 

[Wildsky]

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Start a new thread and ask for pic's - I don't have any

 

[ruth]

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I have to say you, and the books, are wrong. I helped all 7 barred rock chicks out of their shell on Valentines Day. I call them my Big Beefies. They were so big and so packed in there. Every time I chipped a little piece of shell off the whole egg expanded in my hand. I kept thinking they were just going to explode out. 6 are huge and healthy. One does have a bag/mangled leg and I tried all the things that Wildsky tried but it did not help. The leg is badly twisted at the "knee". But if I had not helped the other 6 I would have lost 6 big healthy, Roos. I'm sure they're roos - combs already; legs like tree trunks; chest butting and knocking each other off roost; and today I caught one doing the mating action with a little female Ameracauna.

Nothing sick or underdeveloped about these 3 week old guys.

That's like saying we shouldn't help babies out of mother's wombs because if they can't get out on their own they weren't meant for this world. Come on.

 

[chickeepoo]

I helped a few out of the egg against the advice in the books… and ended up doing chick physical therapy several x daily, tying the legs together at a proper distance with yarn, standing them in a styrofoam cup with some tissue to make them stand and straighten/ strengthen their legs, holding the cup for them to eat and drink, etc. I don't know if it's the right thing to do as far as nature goes, but if the deformity seems fixable, I'm willing to try. Sometimes the humidity is low or the chick is turned wrong in the egg to cause them difficulty at hatch. Good luck.