Chick has curly toes, can't stretch them out to stand up right. help??

[Mountain Wampus]

New chick has curled toes, can't get around very well over it. it lays around a lot. Any wisdom / advice / help please?

 

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC!

Check out this link:
https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

 

[Mountain Wampus]

Welcome to BYC!

Check out this link:
https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

Bless you, thanks. I also alerted the breeder of her hens deficiency as the chicks effected just hatched.

 

[casportpony]

Good luck!

 

[Mountain Wampus]

Good luck!

I found some yogurt high in B vitamins and riboflavin, mixed it up w the chick feed, they love it. Unless there is more I can do the rest is up to them now.

 

[flock lover]

I have had this happen to me before and well to my chicks but anyways take some pipe cleaners and make them the size of the chicks toes all the way to the hock and tape them on. This is a really cheap and effective way. The chick shoes will need to stay in place for some time and will also need to be resized often as chicks feet grow fast and remember not to use too sticky tape as the shoes will be hard to remove