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[sideWing]

Found this on pintrest, thought it was funny:

That's exactly how I feel!

 

[WalnutHill]

Unfortunately I don't know of any way to correct that. It looks like the other leg is a bit twisted too, but perhaps that is just for balance.

If you straighten the joint, does the foot rotate back to pad-down position when the leg is extended? If so, you MAY be able to splint it and hope for some improvement. I fear though that there isn't much you can do for this chick.

 

[scflock]

I think this is the right thread I was recommended to. I hate to butt in on the middle of all the merriment. But I am having a chick problem and need some help he hatched on Monday (1st out of the 3 to hatch). He has a severly crooked leg. I dont know whats wrong or how to fix it so I was wondering if one of you more experienced chicken peeps could help me. He can't bend his leg and the foot pad faces outward. Almost like his leg is turned at the "knee". He tries his hardest to just hop on one foot but that can only get him so far.
Anyways here are a couple pics to show what I am dealing with.

Butting in to the merriment is the best thing to do. We're just silly to pass the time. I'm on the phone, so I can't tell if the foot pad faces to the front or to the side. Has it been like this since hatching, or showed up a day or two later? I have only had one that did that. It hatched fine, but a day or two later it's foot pad was facing the front. I think maybe it had scratched it's foot or gotten a splinter. After a week or two it started walking normally

 

[WVduckchick]

I think this is the right thread I was recommended to. I hate to butt in on the middle of all the merriment. But I am having a chick problem and need some help he hatched on Monday (1st out of the 3 to hatch). He has a severly crooked leg. I dont know whats wrong or how to fix it so I was wondering if one of you more experienced chicken peeps could help me. He can't bend his leg and the foot pad faces outward. Almost like his leg is turned at the "knee". He tries his hardest to just hop on one foot but that can only get him so far.
Anyways here are a couple pics to show what I am dealing with.

I'm having a similar issue with a bantam cochin. What kind of chick is that? Mine is improving, slowly but surely. Is yours eating and drinking well?

I have found alot of good info here:
https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

 

[mother of many]

He cant straighten it out and he "screams" when I try to pull it to attempt to twist it back where it should be. He tries his darnedest to get along with one foot but it is stressful. His other leg seems to be fine I think that this leg just wasnt positioned/ developing properly in the egg. (I was having a bunch of problems with these eggs. And they were my first) I am happy that it made it out of the egg and has made it this far. I got 2 chicks out of my own 6 EE eggs (with a homemade bator) and 3 out of 9 "foreign" eggs ( supposed to be Jersey Giants but weren't) I am still pleased with my first try though and I will being having another go at it after our family vacation. But I feared I wouldn't be able to do much for him I hope he will be okay and that we can figure out some way to help him overcome this disability.

 

[WVduckchick]

He cant straighten it out and he "screams" when I try to pull it to attempt to twist it back where it should be. He tries his darnedest to get along with one foot but it is stressful. His other leg seems to be fine I think that this leg just wasnt positioned/ developing properly in the egg. (I was having a bunch of problems with these eggs. And they were my first) I am happy that it made it out of the egg and has made it this far. I got 2 chicks out of my own 6 EE eggs (with a homemade bator) and 3 out of 9 "foreign" eggs ( supposed to be Jersey Giants but weren't) I am still pleased with my first try though and I will being having another go at it after our family vacation. But I feared I wouldn't be able to do much for him I hope he will be okay and that we can figure out some way to help him overcome this disability.

Google "chick perosis" and "slipped tendon" and watch the YouTube videos and see if that's what's going on. I'm sorry, I'm using my phone so links are more difficult. Stretch the leg out behind him, like they do when they stretch their legs themselves, and feel for the tendon. It could be displaced. The videos show how to pop it back in place, if that's the problem, and if its corrected early enough. You can also try banding it for splay leg. Also called spraddle leg. Its tough to figure out the actual problem to determine a solution.

 

[NTBugtraq]

Well, I have to say, scflock must have got his Brinsea so long ago he forgets what its like to set one up for the first time, or, he's one of those who reads all instructions before he starts anything. No slight intended sc...

So, I had the Brinsea Octo 40 Adv EX all assembled, except the automatic humidity pump...including setting eggs into the trays with the rails (not in the bator, but put into the trays). So then I move to manual #2...the humidity pump manual. It says put the supplied foam into the trays and inside the rails...lolz, so now I gotta take all eggs out. So I do that, brushing eggs against metal rails...never felt so feeble in my life. Of course I break an egg...darn. Put in all the foam they recommend, some eggs won't sit down completely into the rail, leave the trays out and start the unit to get it up to speed (run it for an hour or so).

After 2 hours, I had set the humidity at 45%...its reading 65%, and there's water on the counter-top its sitting on. The bator is on a 45 deg angle, and eggs are being kept from falling into the next rail only because the lid is stopping them. I call Brinsea.

1. So, they say the foam isn't necessary, especially if the eggs are sitting on the bottom of the tray. I take out 1/2 the eggs and I'm able to remove the rail foam so the eggs sit better in the rails.
2. Seems the Octo manual tells you to fill 2 channels with water, but when you have the humidity pump those channels should be dry...lolz. If you read all the instructions, you still wouldn't know that, cause its never stated. Brinsea U.S. support tells me this.
3. Paper towels at the end of the rails to keep the large end up in the air...not needed...after all a chicken doesn't brood over eggs standing on their pointy tip...she says; "Get rid of the paper towels" This means of course that you have to accept the clickity-click of eggs hitting each other as it turns...a sound I worry about...but I'm following instructions.
4. Brinsea manual says if the turner is making noise, zap it with some WD40...but no matter what noise that could possibly make, it pails in comparison to the noise the **** humidity pump makes every time it turns...which is a lot...at least for now. "Nothing you can do about that", support says.
5. Oh, and one feature I read about; a "cooldown period" of 2hrs every 24 which the bator will stop trying to adjust temperature or humidity to simulate a hen getting off the nest (which sounded awesome in the manual)...she says; "Don't use it, I wish it wasn't even possible to do it...we did side by side incubations and the one with the cool-down hatched 1 day later than the other, albeit with a 100% hatch rate"...ok, so that's not a difference with a stryofoam bator.
6. Brinsea manual offers 2 methods of monitoring the incubation; Humidity monitoring, or weight loss monitoring...and they say; "Of the two methods the most reliable is egg weight method and is recommended"...neither method includes drawing air sac size on the egg. I am not saying its a bad idea, only its not one of the two ways Brinsea recommends doing it. They show weighing on Day 5, 8, 13 and 18.
7. Dry hatch...no way according to Brinsea, 40-50% RH during first 18 days, 65% at lockdown. I've set mine at 45%.

So, I got 48 eggs set and am going to put up with the clicking of the eggs and the darn pump noise. I only wish the pump noise was continuous, cause then I could get used to it as background noise...but, whatever...

This darn thing better give me a 100% hatch rate on fertile eggs...but I gotta say, this start up was way harder because I bought their top of the line product...lolz...what a marketing concept.

 

[WVduckchick]

Well, I have to say, scflock must have got his Brinsea so long ago he forgets what its like to set one up for the first time, or, he's one of those who reads all instructions before he starts anything. No slight intended sc...

So, I had the Brinsea Octo 40 Adv EX all assembled, except the automatic humidity pump...including setting eggs into the trays with the rails (not in the bator, but put into the trays). So then I move to manual #2...the humidity pump manual. It says put the supplied foam into the trays and inside the rails...lolz, so now I gotta take all eggs out. So I do that, brushing eggs against metal rails...never felt so feeble in my life. Of course I break an egg...darn. Put in all the foam they recommend, some eggs won't sit down completely into the rail, leave the trays out and start the unit to get it up to speed (run it for an hour or so).

After 2 hours, I had set the humidity at 45%...its reading 65%, and there's water on the counter-top its sitting on. The bator is on a 45 deg angle, and eggs are being kept from falling into the next rail only because the lid is stopping them. I call Brinsea.

1. So, they say the foam isn't necessary, especially if the eggs are sitting on the bottom of the tray. I take out 1/2 the eggs and I'm able to remove the rail foam so the eggs sit better in the rails.
2. Seems the Octo manual tells you to fill 2 channels with water, but when you have the humidity pump those channels should be dry...lolz. If you read all the instructions, you still wouldn't know that, cause its never stated. Brinsea U.S. support tells me this.
3. Paper towels at the end of the rails to keep the large end up in the air...not needed...after all a chicken doesn't brood over eggs standing on their pointy tip...she says; "Get rid of the paper towels" This means of course that you have to accept the clickity-click of eggs hitting each other as it turns...a sound I worry about...but I'm following instructions.
4. Brinsea manual says if the turner is making noise, zap it with some WD40...but no matter what noise that could possibly make, it pails in comparison to the noise the **** humidity pump makes every time it turns...which is a lot...at least for now. "Nothing you can do about that", support says.
5. Oh, and one feature I read about; a "cooldown period" of 2hrs every 24 which the bator will stop trying to adjust temperature or humidity to simulate a hen getting off the nest (which sounded awesome in the manual)...she says; "Don't use it, I wish it wasn't even possible to do it...we did side by side incubations and the one with the cool-down hatched 1 day later than the other, albeit with a 100% hatch rate"...ok, so that's not a difference with a stryofoam bator.
6. Brinsea manual offers 2 methods of monitoring the incubation; Humidity monitoring, or weight loss monitoring...and they say; "Of the two methods the most reliable is egg weight method and is recommended"...neither method includes drawing air sac size on the egg. I am not saying its a bad idea, only its not one of the two ways Brinsea recommends doing it. They show weighing on Day 5, 8, 13 and 18.
7. Dry hatch...no way according to Brinsea, 40-50% RH during first 18 days, 65% at lockdown. I've set mine at 45%.

So, I got 48 eggs set and am going to put up with the clicking of the eggs and the darn pump noise. I only wish the pump noise was continuous, cause then I could get used to it as background noise...but, whatever...

This darn thing better give me a 100% hatch rate on fertile eggs...but I gotta say, this start up was way harder because I bought their top of the line product...lolz...what a marketing concept.

Wow, good luck and I hope you will keep us posted!

 

[BlackwoodHollow]

Jeepers this thread moves fast! I got a lot of catching up to do.
Good luck on your hatch, NTBugtraq! I think I'm going to build my own when the time comes. Sounds a little less complicated.

 

[mother of many]

He hatched out this way so I feel it waa partly my fault with my incubating process being my first time and using a homemade bator. Plus on topof it I got the eggs had to drive them 3 hours home and came to find that some had been brooded beforehand . So it was a mess to begin with. I got the eggs from a lady saying they were Jersey Giants only to find at hatching they werent exactly. I got 1 Giant from the larger egg and from 2 smaller eggs a yellow chick and the little crooked leg chick which I believe is a Barred Rock. He is drinking a little and as for eating I am not sure he is really interested. They are only 2 days old so I dont expect him to pig out either. I have him with the other chicks so that way he is not the odd one out anymore than he already is. I dont want him to be alone in the house. So he is working with what he's got right now I am keeping a periodic eye on him and the others during the day and even several times at night I sneak out to check on them