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Newly hatched chick with neurological issue? Splayed leg?

sunnyducks2

In the Brooder
Apr 26, 2022
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I have a baby chick that had to be helped out of its egg after showing no pipping for 24 hours after first pip. He was drying up inside. He came out with some stuff still attached to him. He wasn’t able to stand up in the incubator at all. I thought it was the stuff (membranes? Umbilical?) that dried to the incubator and was holding him from walking but at this point he still can’t walk and just lays on his side. Lively with peeping. When I hold him up his legs don’t fall right. His left leg he holds very high up. I tried giving nutri-drench so far. I have him in his own box where he can’t get trampled with the others. He’s a biefelder male maybe 2-3 days old at this point and has been out of incubator for less than 12 hours. Is this just a varied form of splayed leg? A worse form of it? Or is this different? I’m not sure if I should be putting him to sleep peacefully and if I’m prolonging the inevitable.

Edit: I tried the hobble method with waterproof bandaging. He still made no improvements and just falls to his left side. Never had to dispatch a baby before. This seems beyond splayed leg
 

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I have one that is very similar, only mine is able to hobble around a little but seems to be using the knee joint to stand on and now that joint is bleeding. Did you ever find a fix??? Trying to figure out how to help this baby.
 

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