Please help!! Biddie broke/healed leg

[Brimort93]

A few days ago my local Agri supply company gave me a baby chick that had "one leg". I took the Biddi e home and noticed that it's leg had obviously been broke before and was now healed close to the body with its foot curved to the side outward slightly. I have been here in so many things and just want to know my best option to give this biddie the most normal life is possible. I stretch it out everyday and it seems to be loosening up a little but I still feels like it has healed the wrong way and will be stuck. Do I leave it like that and let it balance on its wings the rest of its life? Do I re-break it now and put a cast on it even though it's only about 3 weeks old? do I wait till it gets older and then we break it and put a cast on it? Just don't know what to do I'm so lost.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Any way you can post pics?

 

[Brimort93]

Any way you can post pics?

 

[Brimort93]

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[Brimort93]

Thank you for posting. Let me know what you think. The leg is so small compared to the other once I believe that it's been like that for a while now. The toes are still wiggling so they're still feeling in the leg and toes but still not sure what to do.

 

[Brimort93]

Also if I need to get better quality pics let me know I can do so.

 

[Brimort93]

Any way you can post pics?

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[A_Fowl_Guy]

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Let me tag some people @casportpony @Eggcessive

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you know how old the chick is? It looks to me more like a leg bone deformity, or a twisted leg. I am not sure how well you can help the chick. You might check into splinting, but I would give chick vitamins with trace minerals. Poultry Cell has riboflavin and other vitamins and minerals. You can give it 1/2 ml daily. Can the chick get around to get food and water? Many chicks with leg problems die from not being able to get food. You can try making a chick chair to put food and water near it, while you are trying treatments. Here is a thread with lots of chick chair ideas:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is some info on bone deformities:
https://thepoultrysite.com/articles/leg-health-in-large-broilers

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul.../noninfectious-skeletal-disorders-in-broilers

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._of_the_Intertarsal_Joint_in_Broiler_Chickens