Chicks wing hanging?

[Tookie]

I think my chick has something like angel wing. What and how should I wrap my chick's wing? When will I not be able to fix this issue? She is about 5 weeks old.

Anyone?

 

[Tookie]

Bump

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

Anyone?

For the angel wing method you could Google the proper wrapping style and it will show you step by step tutorials. Most Anything that's wrong with the wing at this age could be corrected by proper rest and plenty of food and water, by wrapping the wing close to the body to where she no longer has to support it it will allow healing

 

[Tookie]

Ok, I need help. I am getting frustrated trying to wrap my chick's wing. I have tried wrapping my chicks wing up using some cloth I cut into a strip and taping it and I have also used masking tape. After I wrap my chick's wing and put her down she has trouble walking and will fall on her side, and sometimes she falls on her back and can't get back up. If I don't wrap her wing to her body and just her wing she's fine, but when I wrap it against her body that's when she has trouble walking. She's exactly 5 weeks old today, she's just so small! Because she's small it's harder to wrap her up. At what age will I not be able to fix her wing? Should I be separating her from the other chick's and putting her in one of those chicken chair things? Somebody please help me!

 

[Tookie]

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

Wow that Wing looks pretty bad, it'll take her a while to get used to it and even then she won't be completely stable, her balance might be a little bit off the entire time she has the wing wrapped against her body. I would honestly separate her from the others her own safety, have you looked up the bandaging methods?

 

[Tookie]

Wow that Wing looks pretty bad, it'll take her a while to get used to it and even then she won't be completely stable, her balance might be a little bit off the entire time she has the wing wrapped against her body. I would honestly separate her from the others her own safety, have you looked up the bandaging methods?

I have looked up wrapping but I haven't found much. About everything for wrapping is on a hen, I haven't found anything of wrapping a chick's wing. I don't know how I should wrap it.

 

[Tookie]

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock @azygous

 

[Coops Dad]

I dunno. If it's not causing her pain and she gets along fine as-is, I'd let it be. Especially since you've stated that wrapping it is making her stumble. I'd try to keep her on the flock rather than separate her out, for no other reason than to preserve her spot in the pecking order. If you excommunicate her now and then repatriate her later, she'll start at the bottom and have to fight her way back up.

 

[azygous]

I agree with @Coops Dad that you should just accept this as a birth defect, and leave her alone. She is already adjusting to it unconsciously, incorporating the asymmetry into her balance. Trying to treat this at this point probably won't improve it.

Wrapping a chicken, no matter the age, causes more stress than it's worth. As long as she behaves normally, eats, drinks, poops and grows normally, then rename her like the Native Americans would to incorporate this feature into her persona. She's quite adorable.