New chick can't walk...not spraddle legged...need advice

[bburn]

I have a newly hatched chick in the brooder.....she is not spraddle legged it does not seem after researching it. Her legs are drawn up under her chest and belly. She cannot rise up on them. So, she cannot move around at all, just stays in one place. I have her separate with another little chick that I am not ready to put with the others.

Am I right to think I need to cull her now?

 

[rhs7111]

Check to make sure the chick's tendons didn't slip. Hold the elbow (hock) between your thumb and forefinger and GENTLY roll the joint...see if you can feel a thread-like tendon that can be moved into the joint groove on each leg.

 

[bburn]

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Nope. Both legs feel the same as far as the joints and where they are....there is a problem with the left foot. It is drawn in similar to how it looks when someone has CP (my sister had it) so drawn into a ball kind of. And the one short toe on that foot seems useless and goes the wrong direction. The right leg looks right, is strong but she does not even try to raise up on it.

So, to me it does not sound like a slipped tendon. This worries me greatly but the worse thing I can do is let this chick grow only to be pecked by the other chicks.

What to do???