My chicken's leg is deformed and can't walk!! Please help!!

[Jennasaur7]

So my chicken has had a deformed leg for a while now, and e walked just fine with it, but today he can't even stand up properly. So is there anything I can do for him or is it best to put him down? (Its the one closest to my arm in the picture.) He doesn't seem to be in any pain, he just can't get up. I have moved the food and water towards him so he can get to it. He is probably about 3 months old, and I don't know what breed. I got him from school that came in a box labeled "fertilized chicken eggs". It was for a science class, they were hatching chickens. Thank you for the help.

 

[Eggcessive]

Welcome to BYC. It's hard to tell what the defect is from the picture. The common problems are slipped tendon or rotated tibia or tibial dyschodroplasia. Slipped tendon can sometimes be fixed with manipulation as a newly hatched chick, but with the tibial deformities, they are where the bone actually twists, and many times the leg will break. Don't do anything drastic, until you are certain what the problem is though. And a picture of the chick standing or sitting may be easier to diagnose. Here is some reading for you:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/756556/slipped-tendon-splayed-leg-confused
http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou...nfectious_skeletal_disorders_in_broilers.html
http://nhjy.hzau.edu.cn/kech/synkx/dong/2bao/Bone disorders in poultry.pdf
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/220/slipped-tendon-perosis

 

[Jennasaur7]

I can try to get a picture of him standing, but he can only stand for maybe a second. The leg like slides out from underneath him. and the leg is bulged and rotated at the knee.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is another link showing slipped tendon, and below is a picture of it from the link from The Poultry Site: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ped-tendon-broken-leg-chick-arrived-w-bad-leg

 

[Jennasaur7]

Thank you SOO much!! This picture is showing exactly what he is doing.

 

[Jennasaur7]

I put the hobble brace on today, and I don't expect him to be healed already. But when I try to stand him up his right hip gives out and he either face plants or falls on his side. I don't know what to to about this.

I tried to get as close to his feather color as I could with the vet wrap so the others wouldn't peck at it. And you can see that his foot kind of turns out. Also they do not live on the concrete shown in the photo. This is a different part of the coop that they don't live in.

 

[Eggcessive]

Poor fellow. This is a really hard thing to treat in older chicks, and the tendon either won't stay in place or too much time has passed to treat it. I'm hoping that you can overcome this so that he can walk.

 

[Jennasaur7]

Yeah, I really hope he walks again too. I wish I had taken care of it sooner. But this being my first time having this problem, I didn't know what to do. Thank you so much for your help!!