Does something look off with this wing?

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Does it look like something is wrong with it? This chick doesn't want to tuck up its wing. I'm probably just being hyper aware because we just had to cull a chick with a bad leg.

What do you guys think? Normal or not?
 
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I see it. I know what you mean, I have one hatched today with droopy wings. I’m not sure the outcome, I literally told my husband today that I have a bad feeling about it, even tho it is otherwise active and seemingly ok. He said it looks fine to him, but I’ve seen a lot and if my gut says somethings off, maybe it is. I put nutridrench in the water, other than that I can only wait. Let us know how it goes with the chick, hopefully in a couple days you won’t know it from the others. I put mine in a separate brooder with a late Hatcher and one with a shoe, so I can keep an eye on it.
 
I hope yours is doing well, I got up this morning and mine was laying on its side. I’ve been giving a mix of water, nutridrench, and vitamin e every hour today, and there’s not much change. It did poop, which may have been the first time, so maybe stuff is starting to get thru it’s system. It is gaping in the way chicks do when they’re hatching but still absorbing yolk, not the way they do when they’re nearly dead, so I’m wondering if it’s system is just immature or something. It’s still alert and peep when I take it out to feed it. So if it can hang in there until the system gets going maybe there’s hope. It’s gonna be a light snowie tux so I’m really hoping mine pulls thru, tbh if it wasn’t snowie, I probably would have given it away as snake food with my males.
 
I hope yours is doing well, I got up this morning and mine was laying on its side. I’ve been giving a mix of water, nutridrench, and vitamin e every hour today, and there’s not much change. It did poop, which may have been the first time, so maybe stuff is starting to get thru it’s system. It is gaping in the way chicks do when they’re hatching but still absorbing yolk, not the way they do when they’re nearly dead, so I’m wondering if it’s system is just immature or something. It’s still alert and peep when I take it out to feed it. So if it can hang in there until the system gets going maybe there’s hope. It’s gonna be a light snowie tux so I’m really hoping mine pulls thru, tbh if it wasn’t snowie, I probably would have given it away as snake food with my males.
Mine still doesn't tuck it's wing up, and it's definitely the smallest of all of them, but it seems to be eating ok now. I just got home from teaching, so I need to check again and make sure I see it drinking ok too.
I think (I am definitely not sure though because these are my first chicks) that this one is a Pharoah color with a little of the reddish to it). I have so many with different colors that I wish I could tell what they all are going to be color wise. My favorite is white with black spots. Is that a snowy? I really want it to be a hen!
Do you know of a place I can see all the different coturnix color varieties?
 
It’s hard to tell from the pic, it looks like it is probably pharaoh. Snowie is silver Italian, usually with fee as well. You can see them on the Myshire farms site, they are ideally white with grey speckles.
 
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It’s hard to tell from the pic, it looks like it is probably pharaoh. Snowie is silver Italian, usually with fee as well. You can see them on the Myshire farms site, they are ideally white with grey speckled.
I'll get a picture of the one I thought was a snowy. It was yellow but is now turning white with grey/black speckles.
 

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