In the book, Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks, Gail Damerow talks about the cause(s) of curled toes in chicks. If I am allowed to quote, she states the following:
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Treatment:
Add vitamin supplement to drinking water, and make foot splint. Easier to treat when tape is applied to feet within hours after hatching. If chick is older, and toe bones have not yet hardened, use small piece of firm plastic for bottom of shoe. Tape over top of foot with duct tape, and press firmly to plastic bottom. Leave on 48 hours and re-check (duct tape can be removed with the help of baby oil.)
[Notes: A cheap plastic Dixie dinner plate cut into a small shoe bottom will work. The author specifically states using a "stickier" tape (duct tape) for use with the plastic shoe bottom in order to ensure better adherence].
Hope this helps.
Quote:
Treatment:
Add vitamin supplement to drinking water, and make foot splint. Easier to treat when tape is applied to feet within hours after hatching. If chick is older, and toe bones have not yet hardened, use small piece of firm plastic for bottom of shoe. Tape over top of foot with duct tape, and press firmly to plastic bottom. Leave on 48 hours and re-check (duct tape can be removed with the help of baby oil.)
[Notes: A cheap plastic Dixie dinner plate cut into a small shoe bottom will work. The author specifically states using a "stickier" tape (duct tape) for use with the plastic shoe bottom in order to ensure better adherence].
Hope this helps.
