Malformed toes

That's a common incubation problem. It's easily fixed with boots at a young age, but at that age it probably wouldn't do any good. MoleSkin works best in my opinion, but bandaids work well too. Make 2 W shaped bandages and sandwich the toes between the two pieces. Depending on how bad they are, the toes should be fixed in a week. I think it's caused by humidity that is too high.

 

I have an auracana that is a year old and she has some bent toes too. she seems to be healthy as ever. I thought that she had just broken a toe as a chick but I have learned that sometimes these things just happen. It does look a little wierd though.

 

I have a black Sexlink girl(9 weeks old) that her toes look kinda like that both of the outside toes on both feet are bent like a horse shoe or an anchor the middle and back toes are normal, she walks fine and is way bigger than the one that came with her. She eats fine ,'climbs, all that is normal. She doesn't act like she is in any pain. She came from Ideal so I don't know anything about the humidity or temps they use there. Sandy

 

i have six chicks or young pullets by now. they are from ideal and the 2 barred rocks have toes like that. i didn't notice it until it was too late to fix, but they don't seem to notice because they can roost and what not just fine. if they can eat drink and be merry, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

I've got one Black Orp banty chick that looks awful with his toes curled under. It may be due to incubation problems but sometimes its genetics which mine might be the case because it was like three generation of half bro x half sis matings going on. The next batch I will get some outcross and see if it happens again.

I would not worry about her and enjoy her as an egg layer.

 

In my opinion, it's caused by temps too high in the brooder...while we don't want the peeps to be chilled, it's sometimes too warm in there eh?

~ bigzio