Help!!! Baby chick sick?? :(

[sgall]

Hocks have been swollen in my opinion this whole time....

 

[seminolewind]

That's a 5 week old?
Does she have big feet or does it just look that way?

 

[sgall]

Just looks that way I think.... She is 6 weeks now I guess....

 

[seminolewind]

At 6 weeks it's not spraddle.

Smithfarms , yours sounds like spraddle. I cut a bandaid the long way. And mostly leave a bit more than the pad part in the middle, so I can go around the legs and stick the bandaid to itself on each side of the pad. I had one and if he wasn't hobbling to the food I would put him there in between the food and water, and see if he'll eat and drink. When he was ready, when the others were sleeping in a bunch, I would take him and put him farther away so he had to walk over to be with them. Practice, you know? He turned out to be a fat chick, LOL.

 

[seminolewind]

Sgall. If she's not walking but still eats and drinks and looks alert, you're going to have to wait and see if another one does it. Watch the patient for bright green poo. That would mean wasting.

Alot of people here find that it may be medicated feed, and give the chicks B vitamins. It sounds like Marek's, but I would try everything else that it might be. Keep updating.

 

[sgall]

She's still going strong!!! No poop that's green.... I really think it may be the slipped tendon we do leg physical therapy at night with her and resplint and I let he try to walk without the splint an she just drags the one leg.... She isn't a fan of the splint and I've triple manipulating that tendon but nothing "pops" back into place or anything like that. She walks more right after I massage it and stretch it out. I like to leave he band aids on cause I like to think maybe its ok ding I into place???? I don't want to lose her I it want her to get better but I'm not sure she will. She's eating nod drinking normally and still point a whole lot. This morning she walked lot with he Pliny which made me think I had her splinted good but then this afternoon was the first time she was dragging it.... I just don't know....