I have a chick that hatched yesterday and she had spraddle leg. I attached a hobble made from a bandaid but this morning it had come off and when I went to attach a better hobble I noticed that her knees are swollen and have red marks on them that look almost like scabs. (I made an even better hobble than the one in the photos.) The marks are a little more angry-looking in real life than in the photos. The chick can't stand up at all despite the hobble and her toes seem kind of listless, they don't splay. She wobbles around and doesn't seem to be in pain. I can bend her knees gently and she doesn't squawk.
The marks are sort of symmetrical from leg to leg so maybe it's a developmental problem? Her hatch-mates are fine.
Could it be slipped achilles tendon?
The marks are sort of symmetrical from leg to leg so maybe it's a developmental problem? Her hatch-mates are fine.
Could it be slipped achilles tendon?