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My dad brought me home two leftover chickens they had at tractor supply. One has a serious leg deformity. I do not know if this was aquried after hatching or what. According to my dad the employees say that it's been getting around rather well and it does sort of hop using its wings. The leg can move but can't be of any use as it is turned up on its back. Is there any way I can correct this problem. I really want to give it a chance at life.
 

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It is hard to tell exactly from the pictures, but it looks like a twisted leg, a leg bone deformity common in poultry. There probably is no treatment that would cure it, but I would use some vitamin B complex 1/4 tablet daily ground or crushed onto food. I would try to make sure that the hip is not dislocated, which might be treatable. Here are a few links to read with pictures:
https://thepoultrysite.com/articles/leg-health-in-large-broilers

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul.../noninfectious-skeletal-disorders-in-broilers

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._of_the_Intertarsal_Joint_in_Broiler_Chickens
 

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