Chick with possible exposed bone...

[Akronva]

I have a chick born with splayed legs & curled feet. We hobbled it’s legs 3 days after birth & gave it chick sandals. With food & water easily available it refuses to eat. We have been forcing it food & water, I’m afraid we aren’t feeding it enough & might be slowly starving it. Also, looks like bone is exposed on the back of it’s feet, on the heal part. It’s not bleeding. It’s smaller then all the other chicks & appears to me that it’s eyes are a little sunken in. We can’t keep these chicks, it’s a homeschool school project. We get eggs incubate them & give them to local farms or friends. After 24 hours we removed the hobble & saw no improvement. I’m not sure what else to do for this chick. My main concern is that it just won’t eat on it’s own....

 

[ChickNanny13]

Could you get a picture of the "bone"?
Sounds like it has a Riboflavin deficiency, what are you feeding?

Riboflavin deficiency - Poly Visol without iron, Vitamin B Complex, Nutri Drench, foods rich in riboflavin (eggs, ground raw almond, beef liver, fortified cereals, etc )

 

[kittypaws004]

I'm sorry to say but I don't think the chick will make it.

 

[Akronva]

I’m not sure what food it is. We do this through a 4-H program & they provide the food. They said it’s for chicks & also has antibiotics in it.

 

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

Can you get a pic of the bag of food

 

[Fishkeeper]

It looks like that chick has really bad sores from walking on its hocks. You should probably apply antibiotic ointment, then bandage that up with thick padding so it won't make the sores worse.
Sounds like a failure to thrive chick. Some chicks are born with something wrong internally. If it won't eat or drink, the best thing to do might be to cull it, so it won't continue to suffer. It may not be able to properly digest food.

 

[Akronva]

Can you get a pic of the bag of food

I don’t have a picture of the actual food bag, they give it to us in a ziplock bag.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Ok, the "injury" is probably from the chick hobbling around due to the vitamin deficiency. So treat the would with Vetericyn, apply some Neosporin without the pain relief, start on a Vitamin B Complex and/or Nutri Drench regime. It's probably Medicated Chick Starter/Grower, you can wet some making a mash, see if it will eat that, boiled egg yolk mixed in it or wet it some. Make a sling for it, allow the feet to touch the ground barely, hoping it will "exercise" it's legs which you could too once the hocks heal. You may also want to separate from the brood so it doesn't get trampled or picked one, then reintegrate later. The sooner you start the vitamin treatment to sooner it will help.

I had a chick with Riboflavin deficiency @ 3wks old ... I did the PolyVisol without iron, sandals & therapy for 2wks. It then had a funny waddle but within a week you'd never notice, except it was on Cocky Cockerel.

 

[Akronva]

Ok, the "injury" is probably from the chick hobbling around due to the vitamin deficiency. So treat the would with Vetericyn, apply some Neosporin without the pain relief, start on a Vitamin B Complex and/or Nutri Drench regime. It's probably Medicated Chick Starter/Grower, you can wet some making a mash, see if it will eat that, boiled egg yolk mixed in it or wet it some. Make a sling for it, allow the feet to touch the ground barely, hoping it will "exercise" it's legs which you could too once the hocks heal. You may also want to separate from the brood so it doesn't get trampled or picked one, then reintegrate later. The sooner you start the vitamin treatment to sooner it will help.

I had a chick with Riboflavin deficiency @ 3wks old ... I did the PolyVisol without iron, sandals & therapy for 2wks. It then had a funny waddle but within a week you'd never notice, except it was on Cocky Cockerel.

We made a mash out of the food & it won’t eat it. When we tried to force it to eat & it seemed like it was choking or something....I just don’t know how to get enough food in it.

Yeah, we have it separated from the brood.

 

[coach723]

This thread has some examples of chick chairs, to help keep it off it's hocks until it hopefully finds it's legs. Get the vitamins in it, you can give it some raw egg yolk, watered down if needed. Hopefully once it gets some vitamins it will start feeling better and start eating. If it has internal issues, then there isn't really anything you can do for that. Support it as suggested and see what happens.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/#post-18353109