LizFB
Chirping
- Mar 27, 2021
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Dear BYC Community, I've been keeping chickens for just over a year, so quite new to it. I had 3 of my hens from 2 weeks old. Long story short but one of our hens was sat on 8 fertilised eggs, was doing a bad job of it and one of the eggs was kicked out of the nest and I found it stone cold, candled it and couldn't see through it but had no movement or veins and this was at 20 days, but with little hope, I just popped it in the incubator rather than putting it back with the other eggs, at day 25 had no chicks soon, at day 26 on 16th March the egg in the incubator started to chirp and within 30 mins out popped a beautiful baby silkie chick, all looked fine once dried moved to the brooder, I had sorted my brooder to the best I could but one of my kids came along and messed around with the brooder trying to make the chick more comfortable and moved some of the grip flooring which caused the chick to slip and legs went out, doing some researching was looking at spraddle leg, I taped the chicks legs like I've seen on the internet and the chick improved after about 3 days, the chick could stand, but then noticed it having trouble again and one of its legs is twisted round off the wrong way going outwards, I've been trying to retape, as well as creating one of those band with straw things but nothing seams to be working, eventually got some vet tape and now trying with this. I've taped the chick up again but with the tape on it keeps nose-diving and can't get back up without my help. I'm ensuring the chick gets to water and food but as I've not treated this before I want to check I'm doing things correctly, I'm also worried that we are now maybe getting to late to treat as the baby chick is now 11 days old. Even with the tape on the leg isn't completely in the correct position, but when I tape it, the leg just keeps moving out, its in a better position than it was but just not in the right position it needs to be in. Really sorry for the long write up but wanted to make sure you had all information to be able to help me ensure this little baby survives, than you for your time. I'm keeping on top of the pasty butt as also checked what to do online and been checking this daily and treating. Also finally today the vitamins for chicks arrived, so started the chick on these today, as added to its water
