Protruding skull in silkie

[Altfrizzle]

No, vaulted skulls don’t cause problems.

She could still just be getting her land legs after a rough hatch.

Do you have vitamins you can give her? Electrolytes?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They shouldn't require any vitamins in the first two days of life, they absorb the yolk before hatching. Give it time. Some can take 24 hours to build up strength.

 

[i do it for the bantams]

It is less than 5 hours after the hatch so yes it could still be that. this was also a weird situation to begin with. I have a 3 year old who CONSTANTLY messed with my incubator. literally all the time. opened it and stuck a makeup pad in it. So i was surprised that any of them hatched. I ordered a bunch of eggs from ebay had about a 50% hatch rate. I have 5 that i had to do an assisted hatch with. 3 seem to have no problems at all... 1 has the bulgey head and wobbly walk or shall i say fall everywhere and one has 1 eye which bulges out and only opens about halfway... i cannot assist them in dying like literally. cant.. so I included photos of the 2 deformed ones but can i move the regular acting ones to the rest of the healthy crew or should i isolate everything in the incubator
Freaks me out because I just started another batch in the incubator I originally incubated them in, I have 2,

(in a safer location of course) but i mean is this some contagious stuff or what!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Looks more like a deformity. They may or may not make it. Incubation needs to be consistent or else development can be messed up.

 

[i do it for the bantams]

Is there anything I can do to help them. Or anything i can do to assist them and give them a better chance.
Also do you think it's safe to put the non deformed chickens with the rest of the flock or could these be potential virus that could harm the other chickens. Someone posted it could be a parvo type virus?

 

[Bryam]

It is possible the chick is sick, but that has nothing to do with the vaultd skull. Best of luck!

 

[i do it for the bantams]

When I checked this am it looked like the chick was doing the splits. Spraddled legs or whatever. I do have 3 very normal looking and acting chicks in the same incubator. If the chick is sick could the other chicks in the incubator have It? I don't want to put them in with my other chicks that are in the broader if it has the possibility to kill the other babies

 

[i do it for the bantams]

I went ahead and put 2 into the broader. They are walking around just fine with no problems. I kept 3 in the bator the spread legged one. The one eyed one and one that I just want to be able to observe because it isn't as active as the other 2. Well it seems to struggle a little with walking.
I think the one eye one is blind.. It can't even open it's one eye all the way.. It only opens about 2 cm wide

 

[theoldchick]

Here is some more information about vaulted skull in silkies:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...-in-silkies/&usg=AOvVaw3A75CkmT4rRkVy50_SfkKY

 

[MartinsPoultry]

With spladdle legs get a straw cut the length of the width between the hips and get a small rubber band stick the rubber band through the cut straw piece and put it on the chicks legs. I did this for a guinea keet and his legs now are perfectly fine. It took about a day for his legs to fix, sooner you correct the better as they get older the harder it is to correct it.