Help with newly hatched chick

[MeyMus]

Hi all!
Ive been taken progress pics. Todays pic is on top (with iodine)..
Bottom pic is yesterday.
Can you see the improvement or is it just me? I think swelling gone down but may be twisted to the side alittle more. Ive been doing a little physio massage every morning...

 

[MeyMus]

 

[WVduckchick]

the color does look better.

Is he getting around? Standing normally? Or does he walk on the hock/knee area??

can you post a pic of the chick without holding it?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It does look a little better.
Also while your taking photos - can you post of the back of the hock?

Were you able to find any B2 for your chick?

 

[MeyMus]

the color does look better.

Is he getting around? Standing normally? Or does he walk on the hock/knee area??

can you post a pic of the chick without holding it?

Hi. He's not walking on it and holding it up... but getting around, eating and drinking.

The knee area seems to be double in size to the other leg... and, you know when chicks stretch their leg back?.. well he just tried doing that but couldn't bend the leg backwards...

Here are some pics..

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Were the eggs you hatched her from yours or did you order them from some place?
If the eggs was from your flock, have you ever had any respiratory illness in your flock?

You can try soaking the leg in an epsom salts bath and applying like Vetericyn or triple antibiotic ointment to the swollen area.
It's so hard to know what is going on with her - It looks like the hock may have been oozing at one time and is now scabbed over? Is it tender to touch? Mycoplasma Synovaie comes to mind, but it could be a leg bone deformity or be caused from something that went wrong during incubation/hatching, there's so many possibilities.
You can make her a chick chair to keep her upright and off the hock for short periods of time, this way the hock isn't irritated quite as often when she naps.

Hopefully @WVduckchick and @casportpony will have better ideas.

 

[WVduckchick]

Such a cute chick!!

looks like a slipped tendon to me. I have seen a couple successful fixes on BYC, but I've had a few of them and never been able to fix it. Eventually the chick gets too big to use just one leg, then resorts to crawling around.

 

[MeyMus]

Were the eggs you hatched her from yours or did you order them from some place?
If the eggs was from your flock, have you ever had any respiratory illness in your flock?

You can try soaking the leg in an epsom salts bath and applying like Vetericyn or triple antibiotic ointment to the swollen area.
It's so hard to know what is going on with her - It looks like the hock may have been oozing at one time and is now scabbed over? Is it tender to touch? Mycoplasma Synovaie comes to mind, but it could be a leg bone deformity or be caused from something that went wrong during incubation/hatching, there's so many possibilities.
You can make her a chick chair to keep her upright and off the hock for short periods of time, this way the hock isn't irritated quite as often when she naps.

Hopefully @WVduckchick and @casportpony will have better ideas.

Unfortunately the fertile eggs were purchased. My girls are very healthy and we arent allowed to keep a rooster so often buy fertile eggs for bloody hens. I had a bantam chick broody so gave her a few eggs and put the rest of the dozen in the incubator. This chick was hatched with 6 others in the incubator. They all came out healthy...
I just hate having a sick animal who i cant fix. I dont know what to do with little bigfoot. My husband thinks i should put it out of misery... but hes hopping around, eating, drinking and seems to be happy...

 

[MeyMus]

Such a cute chick!!

looks like a slipped tendon to me. I have seen a couple successful fixes on BYC, but I've had a few of them and never been able to fix it. Eventually the chick gets too big to use just one leg, then resorts to crawling around.

Awwww thats no good. Its a little wyandotte chick so it will get quite big and heavy. Plus im sure the flock will pick on her if she starts crawling.
Im trying to do as much as i can now before it gets too big and isnt as soft to work with...

 

[ChickNanny13]

Wyorp Rock suggested Vitamin B Complex, have you tried it? Chick chair would help get the weight off until the leg gets stronger. There's a website Poultry Podiatry, thank you BYC members for mentioning it in the past.