Help chicken newly hatched legs backward can’t get up

[SarahHarms]

We just hatched this baby chick! Her legs are stuck backward. She is unable to get up. She is a a few hours old and has been struggling to get up.

 

[azygous]

Give her a few drops of warm sugar water. Place one drop after another on the right side of her beak and she will slurp in in. This will elevate her glucose and it may be all that's needed to give her the strength to pull her legs under her.

If that doesn't work after a few hours, try a few drops of vitamin E oil, administered the same way. This may correct a vitamin E deficiency. You may also try dissolving a vitamin B tablet in water and administering this water in the same manner. Vitamin B-2 riboflavin deficiency can cause this, too.

 

[SarahHarms]

Thank you so much I will try this!

 

[Mary Poopins Love]

Is she on a hard surface covered with a grippy substance?

 

[Cornflower]

If your chick is deformed, check this article: https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...tions-and-deformities-in-chick-embryos.67021/

It says: "Crooked toes, foot, and leg problems, which can be a result of excessive inbreeding, poor breeder nutrition, or an inherited genetic trait."

Here's hoping she straightens out for you.