How to wrap dislocated hip.

[Rocky Creek]

One of my young chickens hurt a leg. I think it might be a dislocated hip. He really isn’t getting around at all, so he is isolated in a bin in the house. I think I should wrap it but don’t know how. I have researched and see that wrapping it might be helpful, but I am just not sure of the procedure.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Turd bird]

One of my young chickens hurt a leg. I think it might be a dislocated hip. He really isn’t getting around at all, so he is isolated in a bin in the house. I think I should wrap it but don’t know how. I have researched and see that wrapping it might be helpful, but I am just not sure of the procedure.

Thanks for any help!

I had a hen that limped and it turned out to be scaly leg mites i started treating her for them but then a dog ate her

 

[Turd bird]

welcome to BYC!!!!

 

[coach723]

@Rocky Creek , can you post some pictures of the bird and the leg, showing position, etc? If he is trying to move around, then a video of how he's moving might be helpful. If it were dislocated, then wrapping won't help unless the joint is put back in proper position first.
Do you know if or how he may have been injured? How old is the bird? Sometimes sprains or strains happen, and for those it's usually a matter of getting them to rest it, and time. Have you looked him over thoroughly for any wounds or injuries, parting feathers everywhere and looking down to skin?

 

[Susan Skylark]

Wrapping and dislocated hips aren’t a great combo, it doesn’t do squat therapeutically and is nearly impossible to keep on, and doing it just so you feel like you are doing something isn’t helpful either. If it is a dislocated hip and if you can replace it, a wrap might help it stay in, but if you put pressure on the wrong spots it’ll just pop back out or more likely the dumb wrap will just slide off anyway. Also, you need a diagnosis before you just start treating stuff. Soft tissue or bony injury/dislocation can be treated conservatively with limited movement and pain meds (if appropriate), meaning isolation, small space, deep clean bedding, easy access to food and water, and it can take a month to fully heal. Look over the legs/skin/feathers and look for discoloration, swelling, heat, discharge or discrepancy with the normal leg, also rule out nerve issues (can it use/feel/move the leg). If there isn’t any sort of obvious wound, infection, or bugs, go ahead and try a bit of bed rest, but if there are other issues, address those first.

 

[bycpostreply]

i fixed my girls hip by slowly* stretching one leg out to the front & downwards, as tho she would when stepping, & then circling her leg towards the back, again, just like stepping, & keeping it up in a tuck after the stretch. then, while keeping the first leg tucked, switched to cradle her on the other side to do the other leg. same thing, slowly down & around into a tuck. i did this several times over a cpl days, just for exercise really, as she had stopped walking around for a few days- so to keep her feet from cramping up, etc.. & just coincidentally, on one rotation when the first hip joint was set in a tuck, the other hip popped back into place. she has been to the vet for x-rays & the doc missed it.. but given how suddenly she developed the issue, i knew it wasn't disease related. i did have her wrapped before, i had some wide elastic like in the top of sweatpants & just wrapped it around her whole body, while her legs were tucked, wings & all & putting the band right under her foot pads, so she was basically holding it like a perch & then safety pinned it (pointy side away from her of course in case she popped it open). i then bundled her in a hand towel. she did get warm quick tho, so i switched it for a dish towel. i wrapped her again after the hip popped back, but the next day she had squiggled out & was standing - a day later she was walking & then hopping after a cpl more. her vertical jump isn't the greatest, esp. if there is too little head space- like she can't jump on a perch if its too close to the ceiling, but otherwise she's great.