Thinking about amputating chicks leg... yes or no...

[Smittenroade]

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omg... are you saying that you think an animal is equal to a person...????¿

that is what's wrong with people these days... they have 30 pit bulls living in their houses, dress up a bunch of cats and let them breed out of control because "fixing" them hurts... they aren't part of your family... if you believe that, you're totally doing it wrong...


what if this chick was a broiler...? would you think any different...? they get to be 7 weeks sometimes then get processed for a meal... how is this any different...¿


i would cull... it sucks... i know people that have one legged hens, but that was because a predator got to them... but to have one that was born that way and watch it grow handicap, that's not cool... what if it gets worse...¿ instead of finding out how much the chick will suffer while growing up, just cull and never let it go threw it...

i used to breed pit bulls... and if a puppy was born with a limp leg, twisted tail, or something, i would cull it... never even thought about it... plenty of dog breeders do this... and puppies are a lot cuter than chicks...

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I think you should amputate! Check the internet and read up on it, the information is there. Give it some meds to knock it out and get the bleeding under control and you got it. Make sure to feed it the correct antibiotics to keep infection away as well. Maybe after that make some kind of prosthetic chicken leg and attach it. That would be the coolest thing in the whole freggin world! It can't be that hard right? But then again that is verging on animal cruelty and might be frowned upon by local animal rights activists....

just sayin'...

 

[RedneckChikns]

I dont have the heart to cull by death, and no way I would chop off a leg....then again I dont have the time to play super nurse to every deformed chick and I let mother nature do the sorting. But I will say this much from my exotic bird raising days-if they got funky legs wed cut a square piece of foam..several inches deep, just enough to insert BOTH legs and it also keeps them from moving AT ALL...so you have to make sure they have food water and cut out a rear section so poop falls free of the foam. BUT after a few days to a few weeks..walah..good legs...worked every time. Would I do that with a chick...probably not. But if you have the time might be worth a try. Good Luck!

 

[Kavellion]

Lol not surprised a pit bull breeder would give you cull advice after posting my posts and acting like ima bleeding heart. Think about this animals do adapt to their handicaps and can thrive

 

[drdoolittle]

I have a hen with a deformed leg. I hatched her late in the summer, and she was fine. When the chicks were in the brooder (a huge stock tank with farm fence over the top) something happened to injure her leg----I think she got startled or excited and jumped up and caught her leg in the fence. I tried the band-aid splint, but she would even try to walk, would just lay down. So I took it off and just let her be the way she was. She can't really walk, but she gets around the coop fine, and has no sores on her deformed leg---it's bent under her. If she did begin having problems getting around and eating/drinking, I would cull. The only thing is, she got her injury after she was feathered out almost all the way---don't know if this matters. She is small compared to most of my hens, but her mother is a bantam. You really have to do what you feel is right, but I would not try amputation on your own.

 

[gumbii]

exhibition pit bulls and bull dogs... culled more bull dogs than the former... line bred japanese koi for a while... culled a bunch of hajiro because they kept coming out of my chagoi pair... also bred leopard geckos... culled off hundreds of those... they kept getting enigma disorder so i stopped breeding rainwaters... i breed OEGB, so when i want to show, i dub my roo's... no big deal...



it comes with the job of a breeder... you have to abide by standards... if not, you're just a back yard propagator... all of these people i see on here helping their chicks survive thru a bad hatch and nursing them like if it was the thing to do is wrong... all you are doing is weakening their genetics... in nature, the mother would've just walked away, and if that one couldn't keep up, it would just freeze to death... would the mom hen put a splint or fed it with a straw...? hmm... several years ago people hatched out of some very low tech incubators and were successful at it... they never had hygrometers and electronic thermostats or controllers... now it seems that everyone is hatching these weak chicks that can't even get out of their egg or end up with gimpy legs... and we use some high tech incubators now compared to those in the past... there was a thread not that long ago asking that question... because people are starting to notice it... everyone's trading eggs, and spreading the gene of the chick that can't get out of the egg and well... you just have to help him like it's parents right...? no... it's the same as the panda bears... they should stop trying to get them to breed, and just go extinct the way nature intended it to...


but i guess the human genome is weakening as well... poor breeding... now people want to save a little chicks horrible deformity so they can feed it, give it a name and put it in a coffee mug so they can take pictures... i'm sure if that chick could talk, it would tell you that it sucks that he can't run and eat like it's hatchlings... i'm sure nothing wants to die... but do you want it to live and suffer...?


if doctors did this to us, we would be a way stronger species... LOL... j/k...

 

[deerman]

that chick in your link , had a slip tendon, those can be fix if caught early, straight the leg feel the tendon, need to move the tendon back to center of the knee joint. if been to long the tendon will shrink and be to late.

 

[aria122]

Thank you all.

I think for now the chick will live. This is a dual purpose chicken, may turn broiler instead of egg layer. He/she is the biggest of the chicks that hatched last week.
So far he seems to grow well and get around well without any assistance. Will revisit the issue again if she starts being a special needs chicken.

 

[FMAFarms]

Hooray! I hoped that would be your choice. From what you'd described, the chick had adapted well and was doing just fine. I hope it thrives for you!

 

[LoveHuevos]

I'm happy that you made that choice. We felt horrible for what happened to our chick but she was getting around fine - She even takes her little dust baths!

i used to breed pit bulls... and if a puppy was born with a limp leg, twisted tail, or something, i would cull it... never even thought about it... plenty of dog breeders do this... and puppies are a lot cuter than chicks...

A twisted tail and the dog is killed?! That makes me sad. We adopted a blue nose right before she was going to be euthanized and she's the best dog ever. It's sad to think that there are plenty of pit bulls out there that need homes and are about to die in shelters, but yet people still want to breed them. They are probably the top dog that is killed due to overpopulation, people not treating them right and misunderstanding of the dogs. We get asked numerous times by strangers if we're going to breed Sierra. We tell them that she's spayed and there are plenty of loving pit bulls in the pound.

 

[Iheartchicks<3:)]

If its happy and not showing signs of pain.. Why would you cull it? Wow.