Help please! Baby chick with injured leg

kat_and_hens

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Oct 18, 2020
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Hi everyone. This morning I opened up the brooder and found one chick down with an injured leg. She is still feisty and eating and drinking and peeping but I imagine she is in a lot of pain. She doesn’t seem to be able to o put any weight on it.

Can I splint this? Or another idea? I’ve seen “chick chairs” but I’m not sure how to make one.
 

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It appears that her wing on the opposite side is also injured although maybe she is just compensating?
 

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