Chick with strange leg.

[Cami Su]

One of my chicks (smaller breed, so smaller chick) has something wrong with her leg joint (hock) and that leg is sticking straight out. I brought two in last night. The other, quite a bit bigger, seems to have wry neck and is better but I have a question about her, too. But first, I found her standing on the little one so I have separated them. It was very hard on the little one, who was looking pretty good this morning. Is there something I can do with her?

The big one is definitely looking better for the lack of stress, though she is a giant pain dumping the feed every time I turn around. I was wondering about giving her Bo-Se, and I saw that someone gave it to her bird orally (I usually inject it IM) What would be best?

 

[boskelli1571]

One of my chicks (smaller breed, so smaller chick) has something wrong with her leg joint (hock) and that leg is sticking straight out. I brought two in last night. The other, quite a bit bigger, seems to have wry neck and is better but I have a question about her, too. But first, I found her standing on the little one so I have separated them. It was very hard on the little one, who was looking pretty good this morning. Is there something I can do with her?

The big one is definitely looking better for the lack of stress, though she is a giant pain dumping the feed every time I turn around. I was wondering about giving her Bo-Se, and I saw that someone gave it to her bird orally (I usually inject it IM) What would be best?

What is Bo-Se? If the larger one has wry neck you need to add vitamins/electrolytes to the water. Something like SAv-a-chick.
A picture of the leg would help......

 

[Cami Su]

What is Bo-Se? If the larger one has wry neck you need to add vitamins/electrolytes to the water. Something like SAv-a-chick.
A picture of the leg would help......

Bo-se was mentioned in an earlier discussion of wry neck. It is a Selenium and vitamin e solution. I use it for lambs that indicate selenium deficiency I will try for a photo

 

[MysteryChicken]

Pictures of the chick?

 

[Cami Su]

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I think it's splayed

 

[Cami Su]

as you can perhaps see, her leg is bending the wrong way. I have bandaged the joint and yet she still pushes it open the wrong way. It is very frustrating

 

[Cami Su]

I think it's splayed

and?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

and?

and it's usually from hatching and staying on a slippery surface. It's legs don't work right because they couldn't stand properly. Sometimes you can fix it but I never have and usually just cull them

 

[Cami Su]

I did look it up. Surface is not slippery and she has had no trouble until last night, which makes me think that it was more injured. Most people talked about slipped tendon (not splayed actually) as pretty much unfixable. And the bigger chick died this afternoon. We will see on this one. I have 54 others and 43 sheep and I-have-no-idea-how-many layers, so the energy level to be spent is small.