NEED HELP, chick has messed up feet

[daisyybrownn]

I’ve tried splinting It and nothing happened. Someone suggested a vitamin B deficency and someone else on google said a riboflavin deficency. I have no clue what to do.

 

[Alaskan]

can the chick stand up all of the way?

 

[chuckachucka]

You need to straighten them asap. Essentially get them in the correct positions and keep them there a couple of days. Poultry vitamins in the water might help. Here are some pics for ideas. People use strong tape like medical bandage tape or a piece of plastic or cardboard underneath with tape over the top of the toes.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Riboflavin is a B vitamin. I would suggest grinding up a b-complex tablet and adding it to a quart of water (it's nearly impossible to overdose B-vitamins, as they're water-soluble.) It looks very much like that is what is the matter with your chick.

Also, read the site, "poultry podiatry." It's really helpful.

 

[daisyybrownn]

You need to straighten them asap. Essentially get them in the correct positions and keep them there a couple of days. Poultry vitamins in the water might help. Here are some pics for ideas. People use strong tape like medical bandage tape or a piece of plastic or cardboard underneath with tape over the top of the toes.

I had it taped for 2 days, band aid and cardboard. Poultry vitamins did nothing

 

[sylviethecochin]

I had it taped for 2 days, band aid and cardboard. Poultry vitamins did nothing

Which poultry vitamins? I've never used ones specifically for poultry, but I have heard that many don't actually contain much in the way of B-vitamins.

I believe that's because B's are water-soluble (along with C) and don't dissolve well in the solutions that carry other essential vitamins and are often left out.

 

[daisyybrownn]

can the chick stand up all of the way?

Nope

 

[daisyybrownn]

Which poultry vitamins? I've never used ones specifically for poultry, but I have heard that many don't actually contain much in the way of B-vitamins.

I believe that's because B's are water-soluble (along with C) and don't dissolve well in the solutions that carry other essential vitamins and are often left out.

I gave it straight nutri drench and straight poultry cell. I’m gonna pick up some vitamin B now. I didn’t realize it was the same as riboflavin

 

[Alaskan]

Nope

then I worry that there is something else more fundamentally wrong...

 

[daisyybrownn]

then I worry that there is something else more fundamentally wrong...

It’ll scramble around and it gets itself to the food and water, and it’ll actually put itself in the food bowl, which Is why I’m not scrambling for something right away but it definitely is More than the toes