Slipped Achilles Tendon in Hock Joint or something else HELP! pictures

[Luckybaby]

How old is your chicken? My chicks were quite young and the twisted tibia we experienced was most likely due to our overfeeding them and thus putting too much weight on too quickly while their young bones were still somewhat soft. We cut down the feed on subsequent hatches and didn't have anymore cases of it. If your chickens problem is an injury it may need a splint or some other type of support for the leg while it heals. Our chicks were so young they had not started perching to sleep yet, they slept on the floor under a heat lamp while their legs were taped. They were not happy about the whole process and complained noisily, but it did correct the problem.

He is about 14 weeks old. So they slept with on of their wings on the floor?

 

[DylansMom]

Search "Voy Forums" "Poultry Podiatry" for DC Townsend "The friendly Poultry Orthopedist" this is who helped me with my chicks. Try contacting him/her(?) hopefully this has not changed. Be prepared to send photos of your chicks leg to help with diagnosis and treatment plan. Ours slept on a towel when they were in the wire bottom cage and then we moved them into the outside shed on wood chips and even the ones who were not taped would sleep on the floor, probably because the other's couldn't roost with the legs taped. Good luck, Mindy

 

[Fancychooklady]

Can be a deficiency in the parent stocks diet.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

 

[Luckybaby]

Can be a deficiency in the parent stocks diet.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

I doubt, that it is caused by deficiency in something. His other 7 siblings who are 1 to 2 days old younger or older than him, are walking fine, and they are eating mostly medicated broiler starter for the first 10 weeks and I also put vitamins and electrolytes in their water several times.

How does the tendon feel like? Where should I move it, if it is dislocated?

 

[Luckybaby]

Search "Voy Forums" "Poultry Podiatry" for DC Townsend "The friendly Poultry Orthopedist" this is who helped me with my chicks. Try contacting him/her(?) hopefully this has not changed. Be prepared to send photos of your chicks leg to help with diagnosis and treatment plan. Ours slept on a towel when they were in the wire bottom cage and then we moved them into the outside shed on wood chips and even the ones who were not taped would sleep on the floor, probably because the other's couldn't roost with the legs taped. Good luck, Mindy

Thanks

 

[Fancychooklady]

I doubt, that it is caused by deficiency in something. His other 7 siblings who are 1 to 2 days old younger or older than him, are walking fine, and they are eating mostly medicated broiler starter for the first 10 weeks and I also put vitamins and electrolytes in their water several times.

How does the tendon feel like? Where should I move it, if it is dislocated?

The perosis isn't likely to present in the entire hatch. Just as in deficiencies like thiamine B1 , resulting in wry neck, it may only present in the weakest .
There is always the possibility of an injury. The link I provided gives a good description of how to manipulate the leg.

 

[Luckybaby]

That is the area on the back of it's hock joint. It is either internal bleeding, or external bleeding( I let it walk on stone and hard ground with soil for several hours before I put it in a cage). I checked the same area about 6 hours after my mom saw him limping, but I didn't see it on that time and I only saw it, about 24 hours after I saw it limping. I tried to take it out with wet paper towel, but it didn't work, so I think it is internal bleeding. Also, the area around his hock joint is a little bit swollen.

His mother is buff cochin and his father is mix breed(maybe his father is aseel and I don't know his mother's breed). Is his tendons slipped, or broken, or some of it's bones are fractured? The right leg is normal.

He can actually move his left leg, about as high as the one in the first picture, up to 18 hours after I saw him limping. It probably got worst, when he tried to jump from his coop to the ground which is about 4 feet high. Sigh, I thought it is just a sprained leg, but I think I was wrong.

 

[DylansMom]

That is the area on the back of it's hock joint. It is either internal bleeding, or external bleeding( I let it walk on stone and hard ground with soil for several hours before I put it in a cage). I checked the same area about 6 hours after my mom saw him limping, but I didn't see it on that time and I only saw it, about 24 hours after I saw it limping. I tried to take it out with wet paper towel, but it didn't work, so I think it is internal bleeding. Also, the area around his hock joint is a little bit swollen.

His mother is buff cochin and his father is mix breed(maybe his father is aseel and I don't know his mother's breed). Is his tendons slipped, or broken, or some of it's bones are fractured? The right leg is normal.

He can actually move his left leg, about as high as the one in the first picture, up to 18 hours after I saw him limping. It probably got worst, when he tried to jump from his coop to the ground which is about 4 feet high. Sigh, I thought it is just a sprained leg, but I think I was wrong.

These are the type pics that are needed to tell if a tendon has slipped out of the hock groove. I was holding this chick on his back with both legs sticking up in the air, they are a little blurry (the clearer the better), but you can see the ridge running down the center of each, this is the tendon, this chick did not have slipped tendons. Your pics are fuzzy, but from what I can see it looks more like an injury. Try posting clearer ones in the "Emergencies, diseases, and cures" section of the forum you may get a lot more responses and ideas for treatment on that thread. My chicks had no blackening or open sores when their tibias were twisting.

 

[Luckybaby]

These are the type pics that are needed to tell if a tendon has slipped out of the hock groove. I was holding this chick on his back with both legs sticking up in the air, they are a little blurry (the clearer the better), but you can see the ridge running down the center of each, this is the tendon, this chick did not have slipped tendons. Your pics are fuzzy, but from what I can see it looks more like an injury. Try posting clearer ones in the "Emergencies, diseases, and cures" section of the forum you may get a lot more responses and ideas for treatment on that thread. My chicks had no blackening or open sores when their tibias were twisting.

He can't straighten it's left leg metatarsus by itself. What part helps straighten it? I really want to know that, because that part might be damage.

 

[chickwatcher1]

I think my day old chick has a slipped achilles tendon and his foot is rotated so the bottom faces up. What should I do? I can't tell were the tendon is or how to slip it back in. Would his foot rotate the right direction?