I discovered yesterday that one of the chicks that hatched Wednesday had one leg splayed out to the side and it couldn't push itself up off the floor. So I put hobbles on it. This morning I found that it had pulled out of the hobbles and both legs were splayed out and the feet were cocked up off the bedding. It was starting to get sores on its hocks and it was acting pretty weak (it was pretty weak yesterday too). If the chick had fight, or would have eaten or drunk when I put it up to food, I would have given the thing a chance, but I just decided to cull it. The poor chick kept ending up in the bottom of a cuddle pile under the heater plate and probably would have been suffocated before the end of the day.
