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

[Luckybaby]

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?

Try to do the same thing as it is shown on the link below.

If it is really slipped tendon, they try to wrap it with something to keep in in place, once it is correctly put back in place. Don't make it too tight though. Sometimes it is not necessary to do that, but you have to check it often, to see, if it stays in the correct position.

Someone link a good website about slipped achilles tendon and I will link it again. https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

Posting some pictures will greatly help.

 

[chickwatcher1]

it's not very clear, but the leg won't straighten out and the foot pad is facing sykward. The joint has swelling looks like some interior blood.

 

[Luckybaby]

it's not very clear, but the leg won't straighten out and the foot pad is facing sykward. The joint has swelling looks like some interior blood.

It looks like twisted or splayed leg. Did you try to do it, like the one shown on the video? What I did to my 14 weeks old chicken about a week ago, is that I try to straighten the affected leg and press against the side of the hock joint with my thumb and index finger. His affected leg looks a lot better now than 1 week ago. However, I never saw my chickens having a problem that look like the one in your picture.

What is the food of the parents?

 

[chickwatcher1]

I don't know how to post a new line. This chick is about 24 hours old.

 

[chickwatcher1]

It looks like twisted or splayed leg. Did you try to do it, like the one shown on the video? What I did to my 14 weeks old chicken about a week ago, is that I try to straighten the affected leg and press against the side of the hock joint with my thumb and index finger. His affected leg looks a lot better now than 1 week ago. However, I never saw my chickens having a problem that look like the one in your picture.

What is the food of the parents?

 

[chickwatcher1]

A friend gave me eggs to hatch. I think the leg problem is not so simple to fix. The whole foot is twisted about 170 degrees so the pads face the sky.

 

[Luckybaby]

I am not sure, what is the real problem of my male chicken last week, and even up to today. All what I did, is that, I tried to stretch my chickens' affected leg towards his tail and press against the sides of the hock joint, several times a day, and splint it, several days after the injury, since I think he have a slipped tendon on that time, and definitely not twisted leg, or splayed leg. I should post some more pictures. The difference between today and last week is very significant. By just looking at him few feet away when he is standing up, it would look like, that he doesn't have any leg injuries at all!

You should ask for more help from other people(specially by starting a new thread in the injury section), since I have never experience trying to fix the problem that your chicken have, and I have no good idea regarding how to fix it.