One month old chick with slipped tendon

[Eggs82]

Sorry for the bad pics. The only time they sit still is when there sleeping

 

[Bweis13]

This is Lefty. She was being sold with a bunch of other chickens for the stewpot. She has just a knee on one of her legs, and she ruled the roost in our coop. She got along fine for years and gave me an egg every single day for years. I wasn’t around for her injury or hatch, so I have no idea what happened to her, but I do want you to know that some can get along just fine with a disability. Good luck!

 

[Bweis13]

I just realized that you can’t even see her handicapped leg in this pic! Lol!

 

[Bweis13]

Here you can kind of see the little nub. She kind of used it as a peg leg to go up the ramp into the chicken house.

 

[bwine]

Two of my girls had this happen last year. After multiple attempts trying to wrap and splint there legs failed I had to put one down as she was unable to walk at all. The other one is a year and a half old, walks with a gimp, and has the weirdest looking leg. Other than that she does fine getting around. I hope you have better luck fixing it, but if not it’s not necessarily a death sentence.

mine had one slipped tendon and i fixed it and it went back to same thing. Now the other one is doing the same thing. what do i do. ??