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Got a three week old I found in tsc when she was 2 days old with other chicks pecking her hock making it swell. She held it up to get around. Brought her home and put her under my hen who just hatched one chick and they’ve done well together.
The bad leg is better and she can put pressure on it but now the good leg is growing rapidly and buckling some under the pressure of bearing all her weight. I noticed the good leg looking weird. On further looking it’s subluxed. Where the hock should go back like a human elbow, it’s actually going backward like a human knee. Not twisted.
I can’t put her in a chick chair. She likes to be under her mom and I’ve had bad luck with those chairs in the past.
I think I’d like to make a little orthotic with a bend so it can keep the leg flexed and not allow it to go the wrong way. If I can keep it bent at 45 degrees and then take it off for exercise and flap her wings. I’m able to make things but I am not very creative on my own.
Would love any ideas. I may take her to the avian vet next week if I can’t get something figured out and see what they have.
Thanks.
The bad leg is better and she can put pressure on it but now the good leg is growing rapidly and buckling some under the pressure of bearing all her weight. I noticed the good leg looking weird. On further looking it’s subluxed. Where the hock should go back like a human elbow, it’s actually going backward like a human knee. Not twisted.
I can’t put her in a chick chair. She likes to be under her mom and I’ve had bad luck with those chairs in the past.
I think I’d like to make a little orthotic with a bend so it can keep the leg flexed and not allow it to go the wrong way. If I can keep it bent at 45 degrees and then take it off for exercise and flap her wings. I’m able to make things but I am not very creative on my own.
Would love any ideas. I may take her to the avian vet next week if I can’t get something figured out and see what they have.
Thanks.
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