Help! My almost three week old chick has bent toes

[Everlastinghoop]

On photos it is the inside left leg that is the worst. We just discovered it earlier-today, they will all be (our hatch of 16 chicks) three weeks on Monday. My husband and I searched the the heck out the best way to straighten them, but when we tried tonight after our kids when to bed, ugh! We could not figure out how to do it without making it worse or stressing the chick out. We have up and now it I should one in the morning and we just want to try again tomorrow but don’t want to make it worse.
Any advice? We got the stretchy tape, but oh my gawd.....to try to get it on the chics toes is next to Impossible....this was our first hatch from our own hens in an incubator. We hatched 16. HElp! Advice?

 

[Abigail Joanna]

It will flop as it adjusts to the shoes, but after about 48 hours, reapplying every 24, should see major improvement!

 

[Everlastinghoop]

Oh! Thank u. Hadn’t tried painter tape.