Need HELP with a chick ASAP!

[BlazingColours]

Chick vitamins are almost always a good thing to use when a chick has any problems, especially with legs. Poultry Cell is good or and other vitamin with riboflavin (B2.) Caution: Poultry NutriDrench does not have B2.

I would remove the leg brace with the straw or cut the straw shorter. As you see in the pic at the bottom, it doesn’t touch the legs. Chick skin is too tender for the sharp plastic to touch the legs. Vet wrap stips, a bandaid cut longways, or you can alter the hair band. I don’t like the hairbands, because someone recent cut off the circulation in their chicks’s legs with one that slid up.

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Thanks for that! I was readying about the slipped tendon and could not see it quite right in the cup. Its leg also appeared a bit red from rubbing on the cup so I cut a sock and decided to transfer the chick to a sock chair which seems way more comfortable. I took chick out of cup and checked out the tendon (didn't look like videos I saw so thought it was not that) So put chick on a paper towel to get video for you all and it managed to stay on its belly!!! So happy Kept legs tucked under it and stayed upright though one foot was not open (which is was in the cup). So put it back in the incubator with 2 other that hatched about 3 hours ago. So far 20 min and still upright and shuffling like the other 2 newborns. This morning it almost seemed like the equilibrium was just off. Maybe from being stuck to egg with dry chord and it wrapped around the leg... it didn't get use to be situated upright??? Will report back in a couple hours.

 

[Anaray]

That sounds great! Hopefully, it stays up and about. My perosis chick was very wobbly on it's feet for a couple of hours, but found it's footing eventually.

 

[Kiki]

Have you hatched eggs before?
It is completely normal for chicks to take a few hours to find their feet.

The first time I hatched (ducks) them flip flipping around the bator at the very beginning freaked me out.

Some times it is best to leave a freshly hatched chick alone for a few hours after hatch

 

[BlazingColours]

Have you hatched eggs before?
It is completely normal for chicks to take a few hours to find their feet.

The first time I hatched (ducks) them flip flipping around the bator at the very beginning freaked me out.

Some times it is best to leave a freshly hatched chick alone for a few hours after hatch

Yes, I have. What this chick was doing was not normal. I did leave it alone for quite some time in the incubator (12+hrs) too long I think as the umbilical had dried up and wrapped itself around the leg. It was completely dry and fluffed up with the umbilical dried up like a rope around its leg and still attached to the shell. I could not break it by hand and had to cut with scissors. Then it just kept flipping upside down and only the one leg really had much strength. The cup helped it a lot just get the bearings of staying right side up and resting in that position in the incubator. <3

Update... chick is still staying up and walking a bit now. Wish I had video of it prior to the cup, but I was so focused on helping it stay right side up that I did video tape it.

 

[BlazingColours]

Last update... chick is doing very well and a normal kid now. Only know who it is because I put a band on its leg to be able to track it. Happy chick momma... Next batch hatching today and tomorrow. Deathlayers!