Chick's leg is bent backwards, is there something I can do?

[VioletBlueIvy]

Hi,
I have a chick that hatched this morning around 9am. It was one that pipped two days ago out of the wrong end of it's egg.

It is laying on its stomach with it's left leg under it and it's right leg is laying next to it's body, and bent at the knee so its foot is lying behind it.

It is trying to get up, but has only succeded in getting it's leg under it once that I saw, and then it falls over and the leg goes back the way it was. I saw how the toes can be

taped into place, can you do that to a leg or is it possibly something congenital? Anybody have any thoughts or experience with this?


Also, the incubator temp is fluctuating from 92-102, my 6 year old fiddled with the wing nut on the regulator and they cant get it to stabalize. They added more hot water to it this

morning too. Then I went over and they took out the three older chicks around 10:45, they were trampling the new ones. It is really humid in the incubator, they haven't dried at

all yet, I wonder if it would be better to just take them out now and get them into my brooder? Any thoughts?

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Do a search on here for slipped tendon. It could be that. If it is, get some Vet Wrap, the kind of gauzey tape that sticks to itself and wrap it for a week or so after you have put the leg into the proper position. We did this with a chick that hatched with this condition in Feb and had a 100% recovery. Good luck!

 

[VioletBlueIvy]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I found just what I needed! Thank you!!!!! Everyone said she was going to die...NO she is NOT!

 

[yellowflower]

I had a chick with this in both legs my last hatch. I had to cull it. Another chick I noticed it in one leg and I pushed it back in place and that chick was fine after. I didn't wrap it or anything either. So sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Since yours is only in one you should have better luck. Hope it works out for you.