Chick got stuck in fencing

[docdubz]

My goats toppled over my brooder fence and one of the chicks tried to fly over it and got its toe caught. Somehow it wrapped its toe around the wire and was dangling like that for a while. You cant really see it in this pic but one of its toes is mangled and looks like it needs to be amputated. But what you can see is that it looks like its thigh is completely disconnected from its hip. Think there is any way to fix this with a brace or should I put this little guy out of his misery?

 

[RosemaryDuck]

My goats toppled over my brooder fence and one of the chicks tried to fly over it and got its toe caught. Somehow it wrapped its toe around the wire and was dangling like that for a while. You cant really see it in this pic but one of its toes is mangled and looks like it needs to be amputated. But what you can see is that it looks like its thigh is completely disconnected from its hip. Think there is any way to fix this with a brace or should I put this little guy out of his misery?

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That whole leg looks dislocated or broken. The poor little guy really needs to see an avian vet who can provide pain medication, antibiotics and set/fix the leg.

So sorry for your little one. Hopefully someone can provide more information.

@Miss Lydia
@Eggcessive

 

[docdubz]

That whole leg looks dislocated or broken. The poor little guy really needs to see an avian vet who can provide pain medication, antibiotics and set/fix the leg.

So sorry for your little one. Hopefully someone can provide more information.

@Miss Lydia
@Eggcessive

Unfortunately, there are no vets anywhere near me that will do poultry. So its up to me. I do have a trauma medicine background but for people, not birds. I could easily make a brace that should work but I dont know enough about chicken anatomy to know whether or not Id just be torturing the poor thing until it eventually dies.

From what little I know about chickens I am thinking the leg could be just dislocated which I could probably fix, but that its probably more likely that the hip bone snapped and Im not sure if that could be fixed.

 

[docdubz]

Maybe it was just dislocated and what I did before helped because its able to stand now.

 

[Miss Lydia]

How the chick this morning?
Since you have experience with human trauma you may be able to save the toe too, poultry are amazing how well they can recover given good care. Just keep clean and apply something like Veterycin or antibiotic ointment.

 

[docdubz]

How the chick this morning?
Since you have experience with human trauma you may be able to save the toe too, poultry are amazing how well they can recover given good care. Just keep clean and apply something like Veterycin or antibiotic ointment.

When I let them out of the tractor this morning they all came running out. And im having a real hard time figuring out which one hurt its leg yesterday. They are all running around just fine. I want to say there was no saving the toe because it was bent every which direction and looking like a dead worm... but I didnt even expect this chick to be able to survive let alone run around.

In case anyone else runs into this problem, what I did was hold it on his back like in my picture above and allow the leg to dangle and I extremely gently moved it so that the top of the thigh was moving in small circles in the way that a chickens normal range of motion would be. I did not do it for long, maybe 10 seconds tops. I did not see or feel anything that indicated success but rather I did it just barely enough that I could say "if this was going to work that would have done it"