Baby chick with VERY broken leg!

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UPDATE (with more advice needed!): I’m a nurse and can deal all day and night with helping a person in need...but have a hard time with animals being hurt. It just tears me up. I did remove the rest of her foot and had very minimal bleeding which is a good thing.

I cleaned with Vetericyn, used a little cotton ball and wrapped with Coban. Baby hated it and so did mom. She immediately plucked it off to help her baby out. So I just left it be for now.

BUT the other foot is turning inward and she won’t be able to use it if it doesn’t straighten out at the ankle...Help!
 
kstough said:
UPDATE (with more advice needed!): I’m a nurse and can deal all day and night with helping a person in need...but have a hard time with animals being hurt. It just tears me up. I did remove the rest of her foot and had very minimal bleeding which is a good thing.

I cleaned with Vetericyn, used a little cotton ball and wrapped with Coban. Baby hated it and so did mom. She immediately plucked it off to help her baby out. So I just left it be for now.

BUT the other foot is turning inward and she won’t be able to use it if it doesn’t straighten out at the ankle...Help!
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Wondering if the inward turning foot is a way of helping to balance since the other foot is gone? I would let it be, until it becomes an issue.
 
kstough said:
UPDATE (with more advice needed!): I’m a nurse and can deal all day and night with helping a person in need...but have a hard time with animals being hurt. It just tears me up. I did remove the rest of her foot and had very minimal bleeding which is a good thing.

I cleaned with Vetericyn, used a little cotton ball and wrapped with Coban. Baby hated it and so did mom. She immediately plucked it off to help her baby out. So I just left it be for now.

BUT the other foot is turning inward and she won’t be able to use it if it doesn’t straighten out at the ankle...Help!
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I haven't had any experience with something like this, but maybe you could use a popsicle stick to try and straighten it out?
 
I personally would probably cull. This spring we hatched a chick that for some reason would never put weight on its right leg. It could move the leg and would hold it up off the ground and did learn to hop around on its one good leg....for a couple weeks. As it gained weight it became harder and harder for it to get around and to compete with the other chicks for food which slowed its weight gain, it’s “good” leg began having problems as well and it would flop and half fly to get where it wanted. We kept trying to help and hoping it would make it but it eventually felt like we were slowly letting it starve. By this point we were more attached by all the time we put in which made the decision to finally cull even more painful.
 
kstough said:
BUT the other foot is turning inward and she won’t be able to use it if it doesn’t straighten out at the ankle...Help!
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Poor baby :hugs
To me, in the first photo before you took off the foot, the other leg was already twisting/turning. I would lean toward leg bone deformity. Sadly, over time, I fear the leg will just turn in more.

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