Help!!!! Quick Please!!!!!

[into_my_web]

Thank-you, to everyone. I will try to go to the vet with her, but until Monday I will tape her legs. I will keep posting on her progression or lack there of.

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

they all are for chicks

most times it needs on immediately and left on to work

you did not say what it is so I am guessing the hip joint is bad

it needs a hobble brace for the hip and it is given here

I would make a chick shoe for it like DCT's article says
AND
the hobble brace as it will make the chicks leg come down as it is holding it up
THIS DOES WORK

Here is my friend DCTownsend's help on the matter read the one that fits you best
ORTHOPEDICS FOR POULTRY MADE EASY FOR BEGINNERS
By D.C. Townsend

These treatments have been tested and proven effective. I developed them for peafowl but they
may be used for any poultry. The key to success is to begin treatment promptly. In some cases delay will kill or cripple the chick



CHICK SHOE
Not Actual Size
HALF SHOE
Not Actual Size
In the 1995 hatch, I had a number of peachicks with a kink in the outer toe of one or both feet.
They were well past a week old when I decided that I must do something about it. I made HALF SHOES of black pipe cleaner. I tore off a quarter inch-wide stripe of duck tape several inches long and secured
the HALF SHOE to the middle and the outer toe. Several days of treatment were needed. Some of the
HALF SHOES came off and had to be taped on again, but all treated peachicks had straight toes at the
end of the treatment. There is a young peacock that I missed treating. Now it is too late and he will
always have a kink in his outer toe.

HOBBLE BRACE
ACHILLES TENDON OUT OF THE GROOVE
When the Achilles tendon slips out of the groove on the hock joint, a peachick will not be able to
straighten its leg. The problem needs prompt attention because the struggling peachick will put
its weight on the hock joint which will damage the skin and cause swelling in the joint. The tendon
can be pushed back in place with just one finger or a very gentle squeeze between the thumb and index
finger. Sometimes just one treatment will give a complete cure that seems like a miracle. Other
times several treatments are needed. Stubborn cases require advanced treatment that is too difficult to
explain here. I treated both legs of a peachick for two weeks; She grew up to be a healthy peahen.

CROOKED TOES
Sometimes a peachick hatches with toes rolled into a fist. They may straighten out on their own
in the first day of life. If they do not do so, I make a CHICK SHOE (see illustration below) from
black pipe cleaner available in the crafts department at Wal-Mart. I use black ones because
bright colors are more likely to be pecked by other peachicks. One packet of Westrim Crafts Chenille
stems costs 89 cents and will last for years. Any kind of half inch wide tape can be used to attach the CHICK SHOE to the toes, but I prefer Johnson and Johnson First Aid clear tape. I cut a piece a quarter inch long for the middle toe. I cut another piece the same length and split into two quarter inch-wide pieces for the other toes. Eight hours of treatment is usually enough time to end the problem on a day-old peachick.


STRADDLE LEGS
This problem can occur even if you take the precaution of having quarter inch hardware cloth
under your peachicks. Sometimes it is caused by the struggles of a chick with its toes rolled into
fists. In that case, both problems must be treated at the same time. I cut a piece of tape four or
five inches long and from the HOBBLE BRACE with the legs far enough apart so that the peachick can walk. The tape must go the whole way around and cover its sticky side so that it does not stick to the
peachick's fuzz when it sits down. Usually 24 hours of treatment is sufficient, but sometimes more is
required. CHICK SHOES and the HOBBLE BRACE can be used at the same time.

any questions email me

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

this will work if any thing is going to work

so give it a try and leave it on her hip and leg and foot
do not keep taking it off
how can it heal when your putting stress on it by pulling the
tape off
it will not kill her to have the brace and shoe on her
any questions email me

 

[into_my_web]

I think she may be getting worse. She wont drink and rarely eats, she lays there with her eyes usually closed like this:

I put the hobble brace on her last night and this is what her leg looks like now:

I did keep the brace on though. I placed her alone with food and water. I have been picking her up and holding her above the water in order for her to drink, she dosen't seem to drink any other way.
Also, we've been putting polysporin on her leg. Is this alright?

 

[California Ducken]

Ok I will PM someone to help with this. Hold on. She lives in Holland.

Get another mild chick in with her. She needs a friend for support. As in to keep her spirits up and give her some incentive to keep active. Even if it doesn't seem like it is helping, she needs the stimulation of another chick.

 

[California Ducken]

She also may need something for pain,or an anti inflammatory. Let me see what others say first before making that call though.

 

[threehorses]

I'd reclean that wound once at least, gently to prevent stressing her.

No honestly I'd take her to a vet, but is that possible for you? <-- this sounds sarcastic (and I apologize for that - don't know how else to put it), but it is not at all meant that way - I'm asking earnestly.

If you don't take her to the vet, clean the wound carefully again with hydrogen peroxide to bubble anything out. Then dry and dab iodine on it and leave it.

That chick needs nutrition. She won't eat on her own if she's in pain. It's your resposibilty to get the food to her. You'll want to drop a couple of drops of the baby vitamin on her beak. Offer her some boiled mashed egg yolk mixed with a little water til it's like applesauce. Hold that to the side of her beak. If she'll drink if you put a drop on the side of her beak, mix a little 'souped up water" with some of the boiled egg, a bit of karo or honey, just about a couple of drops of the honey or karo to a teaspoon of the water, of which I'd make about a fourth a teaspoon of that egg yolk. That will give her nutrition and hydration and a little energy all together.

A buddy will encourage her to stay interested in living.

It's also possible that, with her fall, she sustained some internal damage that we can't see. I wouldn't be surprised since her leg was so damaged. (Btw is it broken, or dislocated?) It's also possible (especially if the leg was broken and the close proximity of that wound to developing bone) that she may be developing a systemic infection.

 

[California Ducken]

Thanks threehorses for posting.

 

[into_my_web]

Well, today is Sunday and no vet offices are open today, so tomorrow I will have to make a call.

 

[tiffanyh]

Looks very much like an abcess.