Four day old silkie chick

[Caitlin2535]

Hatched a few more silkies, I noticed one look “tall” in the incubator, four days later the “tall” (long legs) is staggering and his wings are super high in his back and touching each other, while all the other chicks have there wings to their sides and look “normal”, has anyone ever see this? At first when I saw him staggering I assumed vitamin deficiency however he is very strange looking compared to the others. Would love some information on this from anyone who’s experienced it before. And yes it’s pure silkie as I have all my own very good quality and not sure what happened with this chicks.. genetics are strange…

 

[Debbie292d]

Hi, I've been raising and breeding silkies for many years and never heard of this. Could you post a picture?

I would have left him in the incubator turned down to 95F for another day to see if perhaps he'd straighten out a little.

It also wouldn't hurt if his first water had some Nutra Drench or Poultry Cell in it and continue every other day.