My Sultan chicks has Straddle Leg!

[briarpatchfarms]

My newly hatched Sultan chick got straddle leg last night and cant stand up very good is there anything i can do?

 

[wendy]

I have a chicken book and they show using a bandaid to wrap around the legs to keep them together.

I don't know if it works real well, have not hatched my own chicks yet.

Good luck!

Maybe more will see this and give you more info and help.

 

[chickenzoo]

Here is a quick outline of the idea.....

 

[wegotchickens]

Good illustration, chickenzoo!!

brairpatch, you should also get some liquid infant vitamins and add them to your chicks water for a few days. Do that while you have the chick in band-aids and it will really improve fast. DHUnicorn told me that when I had a chick with spraddle leg.

I have started giving all my chicks a little vitamins after they hatch and have avoided spraddle leg since.

 

[bayouchica]

I've had a few chics with that, this is what I did. This site has really good intstructions.
http://www.poultryhelp.com/spraddle.html
Make sure their flooring is something that has grip. I've used shelf liners with paper towels underneath.
Give them a small area (shoebox,etc) while on the band aid treatment. Roll up some towels & put along the inside.
Make sure you put rocks or marbles in their water to prevent accidental drowning. (I'm a worry wart,lol)
It'll take a few days, but it does work. It's hard to watch them struggle at first,but they do get the hang of it.
Make sure they are eating & drinking.You may want to but a couple of drops of Poly-vi-sol. (baby vitamins)
Good luck, please let us know how the little one is doing .

Miriam

 

[briarpatchfarms]

well i did have something in there to prvent that but last night our electric went out.... still out and we had to take them with us to my mamaws and i put them in a box and fell asleep when i woke up he had straddle leg.

 

[Cara]

Some outgrow it by themselves if they have a good footing. I'm afraid none that i've tried to help more than that have made it

One drowned, and a couple of others just died. I had one that was still making it but spraddle-legged at 8-10 weeks old, and thankfully a predator took him. He had a really hard time getting around but I didn't have the heart to put him down.

 

[briarpatchfarms]

Thanks you guys he is better dont need nothing cant tell him apart from the other no badades no nothing just missing leg feathers LOL!

 

[bayouchica]

great news!!!

 

[wegotchickens]

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Go chickie!!