please help - Hatchling can't stand

[Kassaundra]

here is a suggestion on chick chairs i had saved


mabe something similar?

That is exactly what I remembered seeing!

 

[artsyrobin]

you can even fashion one from kleenex boxes, for larger birds..

 

[bardies]

That is exactly what I remembered seeing!

OMGoodness! I have not seen these before. This is worth saving for future use. Do you think those are yougurt cups with folded duck tape, then of course, the bottle cap dishes. These forums are just awesome!

 

[artsyrobin]

you'll never look at little containers the same...

 

[lonnyandrinda]

How is your chickie Kyzmette? I find about 20% of my Isbars hatch with leg problems, 90% of which are cured with a drop of baby vitamins each day for the first 1-3 days, which it sounds like you've already done.

 

[JesNflock]

How is your chickie Kyzmette? I find about 20% of my Isbars hatch with leg problems, 90% of which are cured with a drop of baby vitamins each day for the first 1-3 days, which it sounds like you've already done.

Curious to know how it is doing as well!

 

[Kyzmette]

I want to say thank you to everybody who helped with my sweet baby! I gave the vitamins by dropper, as well as in the water supply, and applied a bandaid brace. I also did little physical therapy by holding her in my hand with one finger braced between her legs, and let her feel what it was like to have her feet on the ground. I would take the bandaid off a couple of times a day to stage her. After the first day she would stand for a second, but couldn't keep her feet. By the second day she was standing and hobbling around. She was up and walking in three days!

When I looked back on the photo of her just-hatched, I noticed the muscles in her legs were either swollen or just flaccid, so I think she was so cramped up in such an odd position that maybe she just lost the muscle tone in her legs from not being able to move them.

Now my sweetie cheeps and peeps and cuddles and runs and jumps everywhere! And I named her Zima. Because she's an Isbar (pronounced Ice Bar), and it just seemed to fit.

Again, thank you all so much! I don't know what I'd do without this forum.

 

[JesNflock]

I want to say thank you to everybody who helped with my sweet baby! I gave the vitamins by dropper, as well as in the water supply, and applied a bandaid brace. I also did little physical therapy by holding her in my hand with one finger braced between her legs, and let her feel what it was like to have her feet on the ground. I would take the bandaid off a couple of times a day to stage her. After the first day she would stand for a second, but couldn't keep her feet. By the second day she was standing and hobbling around. She was up and walking in three days!

When I looked back on the photo of her just-hatched, I noticed the muscles in her legs were either swollen or just flaccid, so I think she was so cramped up in such an odd position that maybe she just lost the muscle tone in her legs from not being able to move them.

Now my sweetie cheeps and peeps and cuddles and runs and jumps everywhere! And I named her Zima. Because she's an Isbar (pronounced Ice Bar), and it just seemed to fit.

Again, thank you all so much! I don't know what I'd do without this forum.

YaY! I'm so happy to hear she is doing so well!!!!