Spraddle leg in this chick

[TheMother]

She's a week old and I've never seen spraddle leg in a chick but yesterday It became much more evident she was dragging her left leg. We used bandaids under the zip ties to prevent friction. She keeps biting at the brace, making me nervous to go to bed. We have her separated with a weaker chick and food and water close by. About an inch of shavings underneath those paper towels. Do chicks normally bite at these braces, or could the black be freaking her out?
Thanks!

 

[TheMother]

She's a week old and I've never seen spraddle leg in a chick but yesterday It became much more evident she was dragging her left leg. We used bandaids under the zip ties to prevent friction. She keeps biting at the brace, making me nervous to go to bed. We have her separated with a weaker chick and food and water close by. About an inch of shavings underneath those paper towels. Do chicks normally bite at these braces, or could the black be freaking her out?
Thanks!

Edited to add,
We've seen her fall over and she was able to get up on her own.

 

[Rory the Chicken]

The other chicks will just be curious in the weak chick. if any problems occur where the weak chicks is getting injured, remove her and hand rear her/him.

 

[getaclue]

I'm not sure zip ties are pliable enough.

 

[Ebony Rose]

A slipped tendon presents in a similar fashion, but wanted to discuss the possibility of malnutrition.

Nutritional deficiencies in a hen can be passed to her offspring in the egg.
Most commercial feed 'assumes' you're raising chickens for eggs (to eat) or meat, without considering the possibility of hatching those eggs. To turn a profit, they tend to skimp on the nutritional requirements for healthy hatching eggs.
B-vitamin deficiency presents in this way, with the young hatchlings developing a spraddle, often within the first week of life.
The sooner a B-complex or complete vitamin supplement added to the water is started, the quicker and more complete the recovery. I use a product called 'chick booster' that is a very complete vitamin and mineral supplement.

Hope your little one gets to feeling better soon.

 

[TheMother]

A slipped tendon presents in a similar fashion, but wanted to discuss the possibility of malnutrition.

Nutritional deficiencies in a hen can be passed to her offspring in the egg.
Most commercial feed 'assumes' you're raising chickens for eggs (to eat) or meat, without considering the possibility of hatching those eggs. To turn a profit, they tend to skimp on the nutritional requirements for healthy hatching eggs.
B-vitamin deficiency presents in this way, with the young hatchlings developing a spraddle, often within the first week of life.
The sooner a B-complex or complete vitamin supplement added to the water is started, the quicker and more complete the recovery. I use a product called 'chick booster' that is a very complete vitamin and mineral supplement.

Hope your little one gets to feeling better soon.

Thanks for taking time to respond! I will buy some chick booster at the farm store tomorrow. This is the only chick out of 32 that has this leg issue.

 

[TheMother]

I'm not sure zip ties are pliable enough.

I'm going to the Supply store tomorrow to get the wrap and chick booster. My husband is a firm believer in doing a job the right way the first time around and usually that serves very well. But I suppose zip ties may be overzealous lol