Quail Chick Curled Feet, Please Help :(

[Quailpower]

ive left them on for about a day and still no sign of wanting to walk, im wondering if they are curled at the ankle??

 

[Chateauredneck]

Some where on the Virginia Tech website I read to take a small dixie cup and cut two small holes in it and feed their legs thru and secure around the wings with a small rubber band...I haven't tried this .. so far have had four chicks out this last bunch with curled feet (purchased the chicks...and probably nit again) 2 made it just fine and the other 2 didn't..good luck

 

[DLS]

I always just pull the head off of defective fowl . It will suffer if you allow it to live. pull its head off
Get it over with

 

[Mek]

Do you think Curled feet are a symptom of bad diet of the hens and roo before incubation? - Because of the chicks I hatched has curled feet and I know that high lv protein feed is hard to get where I live.

 

[aprophet]

http://gallus.tamu.edu/library/extpublications/b6092.pdf

 

[Charlene74]

How soon after birth should I try to straighten toes? We did the tape thing for a chick which worked great. We waited a day before we did it. How long to wait for quail babies?

 

[deliciouspits]

How soon after birth should I try to straighten toes? We did the tape thing for a chick which worked great. We waited a day before we did it. How long to wait for quail babies?

 

[DK newbie]

As far as I know, you should do it as soon as possible.. But I've never tried it.

 

[Charlene74]

PUT tape on will see how it goes

 

[ZsBeez]

Thanks for the post. It took over four day for my last batch to hatch. This can't be good. My last two have the curled toes.