Should I help?

[Zippy007]

Thats one of the most common things that happen, they dont even need to have sprawled legs to be able to drown in the waterer. Unfortunately just one problem we have, as for sexing from a day to three maybe four days old you can sex them by opening their wing out and you should notice on a female the 2 seperate rows of feathers will be at different lengths, with a male theyre all the same length. It still quite difficult to tell but thats the easiest way of doing it!
After this time it gets harder to tell as the feathers start growing through i was lucky, 2 out of 2 hicks hatched and both are girls!

I hope this helps in the future

 

[dusky]

So, one of his toes is still crooked. I left it untaped/shoed today since he seemed so unhappy being hobbled with shoes. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/697009/crooked-toe-still-should-i-re-tape#post_9456376 Part of the time the foot looks normal, but most of the other time he puts his weight on the side of the turned toe. Is it too late now to continue with shoes/taping?