Splay or slipped tendon or????? Need help

[scooby]

 

[scooby]

Took hobbles off, grey chick seem to have full motion front stretched to a back stretch even pulled her leg away from me. And did not chirp. But upon further looking I believe I see the tendon running to the inside of her hock right before the hock, is this a slipped tendon? Should it be running straight down the back of the hock?
Orange chick does not seem to have full range to stretch leg back and chirped obviously not liking it, but I could not tell where the tendon was running.( hard to handle alone and pull on them) really concerned about orange chick

 

[Eggcessive]

I would be tempted to leave the hobbles off and let them try walking around without them, unless you see a really bad splay leg problem. I haven’t ever treated a slipped tendon before, and most of the time it is a leg bone deformity that is the problem. Here first is a link on slipped tendons, and second And third are links about leg bone deformities such as varus or valgus deformity or TD (twisted tibia) which many people mistakenly call slipped tendon:
https://www.chickenheavenonearth.co...u-can-do-to-help-chicken-heaven-on-earth.html

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/1051/leg-health-in-large-broilers/

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._of_the_Intertarsal_Joint_in_Broiler_Chickens

 

[Eggcessive]

Make sure that your LifeLytes has some riboflavin (vitamin B2) in them. Some people have reported that chicks with some leg problems dramatically get better with vitamins and walking over several hours. I hope that is the case. @WVduckchick has a method of fixing a hip dislocation I believe, if that would be the problem.

 

[WVduckchick]

I’m copying/pasting from another post, but you can try this. Some have had luck with it.


Here's what I would try if it were mine. Hold your left hand out, palm up, fingers toward the right, in front of your chest. Lay the chick's belly in your left hand, feet pointing back toward your body, overhanging your pinky finger/palm. Grasp the feet and legs between your right thumb and forefinger. Slowly lower your left hand (kinda bowling ball or lawn-dart starting motion) and let the bird dangle for just a few seconds. Twist your wrist outward, and the bird's reaction should be to lift its head/chest/body upward toward your hand. (keep your hand under, but not touching, and don't drop her! lol) When it does, you can re-grab the body. This will sometimes "reset" a slipped hip or knee joint. It won't hurt the bird, and I would think its worth a try.

 

[scooby]

Is s there a video of this somewhere I can watch, I'm a little confused as to the method.

 

[WVduckchick]

Is s there a video of this somewhere I can watch, I'm a little confused as to the method.

I haven’t found one. I’ve meant to make one, but haven’t done it yet.

Basically, if you dangle the chick upside down by its legs, holding by the thighs, then sorta spin the dangling chick, it’s natural reaction is to fold up toward your hand. When it does that, the hold you have on its legs will sometimes snap it back into proper place.

 

[scooby]

Ok so I layed the chick in my hand, back in my palm and then grab it by the thighs and started to move my palm away and she tried to do a pull up kinda like. So did I do this kinda correct or did I do it wrong?
I'm starting to think it is tendon or possibly deformed joints. I'm not 100% but I think it might be tendon. I am going to try to get a better pic and hopefully you guys can confirm this for me or not.iv never dealt with it before so not sure I am looking at it right

 

[rebrascora]

Have you treated the pasty butt on the yellow chick. It's back end looks very distended in some of those photos. Afraid I can't help with the leg issues as I have not successfully treated any. The yellow one may benefit from a little chicken sling to enable it to easily reach food and water. If you google images of chick slings you should get plenty of ideas as to what you can make to help.

Edited to add the images below

 

[scooby]

She does not have pasty butt she is just wobbling around and it sticks to her. I think a sling might be the next move but need to figure out the real issue I don't want to keep mistreating. I have been taking them out and doing leg stretches. In hopes to stretch that tendon also.hopefully it helps.