HELP! Can anyone give me tips on how to correct perosis (slipped tendon)??!

portraitiste · Aug 25, 2014

Hi everyone, I have a week old Rhode Island Red hen chick who appears to have a slipped tendon. She didn't have it when she hatched and she is kept on deep layers of sawdust in a massive brooder so I have no idea how shes done it but can someone please help me and give me advice on how to slip the tendon back in??

I can feel the tendon on the inside of the hock, so that's how I came to the dignosis that it is definitely perosis. I haven't had a chick like this before, however, so I have no idea how I put it back into place... I'm so scared that I will damage her as she is still so tiny!

Please, please help as I'm worried I wont fix it in time and then will have to have her pts which I don't want at all

Wyandottes7 · Aug 25, 2014

Here's a link on correcting slipped tendon and other leg problems (scroll down a little ways to get to information on how to treat it):

https://sites.google.com/a/larsencreek.com/chicken-orthopedics/

Good luck with your chick! I hope she gets better.

arkansas55 · Aug 25, 2014

awwwww,sending hugs and high hope's!

Double Kindness · Aug 26, 2014

I have a chick with this too, but idk if it's too late to try to fix it, is it too late now to fix it, will this chick have a good life? It's only 3 days old, I have been trying everything on poultry podiatry, but it seems to be content just standing on one leg?

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