Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[Muscovy Wunda]

My friend contacted me about an hour and a half ago and surprised me by telling me she saved a dozen more Marans egg and a dozen Crested Cream Legbar eggs for me!! So naturally I dropped everything to go pick them up!

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Cream leg bars sound so pretty, but I can honestly say I've never seen one... I should probably google them

 

[gmjarvi]

A newly hatched chick is already going to be so wibbly wobbly that it's really hard to say from looking at the pictures. Sometimes they work out the curling in their toes over a few hours, though the army crawl I think I read in one post doesn't sound good.

If one or both of the chick's legs are slipping out to the side then it's probably splay leg which I find vet wrap/med wrap works the best to repair and I'm SO glad someone shared that trick with me last year because the rubber band method is for masterful wizards and I just don't even know how people make it work, lol!

Then there are also deformities that can occur in legs that I more recently learned about that can sometimes be mistaken for slipped tendons.

A multivitamin is a good idea, something with vitamin B2 riboflavin because left issues can commonly be related to this.

The army crawling was my chick with curled toes. He ended up fine but I was very concerned about him and just about to step in when he started improving on his own.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Cream leg bars sound so pretty, but I can honestly say I've never seen one... I should probably google them

I have a Frosted Legbar but no Cream Legbars YET. They're a smaller bird, autosexing, lay blue eggs, and they have a little crest. It's too cute!

 

[gmjarvi]

I have a Frosted Legbar but no Cream Legbars YET. They're a smaller bird, autosexing, lay blue eggs, and they have a little crest. It's too cute!

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How do you find your frosted legbar's temperament? I have an olive egger than I think is part legbar (she has a crest and coloring that reminds me of CCL) and she is so wild. I have 12 CCL eggs coming this April!

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

How pretty! I googled them and the hens all look like they are wearing little bonnets!

 

[julskinka]

How pretty! I googled them and the hens all look like they are wearing little bonnets!

Cream Legbars are great! Here's my post on Room, who is inquisitive and sweet.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...march-2020-hatch-a-long.1347109/post-22269816
And here's the one where I caught her laying an egg:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...march-2020-hatch-a-long.1347109/post-22243974

 

[Phillyndilly]

A newly hatched chick is already going to be so wibbly wobbly that it's really hard to say from looking at the pictures. Sometimes they work out the curling in their toes over a few hours, though the army crawl I think I read in one post doesn't sound good.

If one or both of the chick's legs are slipping out to the side then it's probably splay leg which I find vet wrap/med wrap works the best to repair and I'm SO glad someone shared that trick with me last year because the rubber band method is for masterful wizards and I just don't even know how people make it work, lol!

Then there are also deformities that can occur in legs that I more recently learned about that can sometimes be mistaken for slipped tendons.

A multivitamin is a good idea, something with vitamin B2 riboflavin because left issues can commonly be related to this.

The army crawling was my chick with curled toes. He ended up fine but I was very concerned about him and just about to step in when he started improving on his own.

I’ll try to take better pictures tomorrow honestly this poor baby I have no idea what’s going on this is my first hatch. I feel like I should’ve helped it sooner but everyone says the Main beginners mistake is helping too early.
So is it sleeping in the cup or no?
It can’t army crawl it can only flop and roll in the position it is in in those photos really. I wish I could send a video but people do like YouTube links on here and idk how to figure that out. So it’s in a sock in a cup with it’s one curled foot wrapped and it’s legs wrapped at the top and the vet wrap leg trick for splay leg with weird food and water stands around it that I hope it can reach but not really. I don’t know if I should let it sleep like that?
Every now and then I see it nibbling the food I tried to dip the beak in water but it doesn’t seem to want that.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

How do you find your frosted legbar's temperament? I have an olive egger than I think is part legbar (she has a crest and coloring that reminds me of CCL) and she is so wild. I have 12 CCL eggs coming this April!

She's very sweet but a little flighty and seems to stay lower on the pecking order.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

I’ll try to take better pictures tomorrow honestly this poor baby I have no idea what’s going on this is my first hatch. I feel like I should’ve helped it sooner but everyone says the Main beginners mistake is helping too early.
So is it sleeping in the cup or no?
It can’t army crawl it can only flop and roll in the position it is in in those photos really. I wish I could send a video but people do like YouTube links on here and idk how to figure that out. So it’s in a sock in a cup with it’s one curled foot wrapped and it’s legs wrapped at the top and the vet wrap leg trick for splay leg with weird food and water stands around it that I hope it can reach but not really. I don’t know if I should let it sleep like that?
Every now and then I see it nibbling the food I tried to dip the beak in water but it doesn’t seem to want that.

I don’t have a ton of advice because I don’t have much experience, but I’d probably remove the water before you go to bed, just in case it gets a burst of strength and flops itself into the water dish. Hoping it works itself out and is ok.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I’ll try to take better pictures tomorrow honestly this poor baby I have no idea what’s going on this is my first hatch. I feel like I should’ve helped it sooner but everyone says the Main beginners mistake is helping too early.
So is it sleeping in the cup or no?
It can’t army crawl it can only flop and roll in the position it is in in those photos really. I wish I could send a video but people do like YouTube links on here and idk how to figure that out. So it’s in a sock in a cup with it’s one curled foot wrapped and it’s legs wrapped at the top and the vet wrap leg trick for splay leg with weird food and water stands around it that I hope it can reach but not really. I don’t know if I should let it sleep like that?
Every now and then I see it nibbling the food I tried to dip the beak in water but it doesn’t seem to want that.

She should be ok through the night and maybe reevaluate in the morning. She still has some yolk sac to live off of anyway. I would be really careful that she doesn't get overheated under that light especially in the container because she won't be able to get away from the heat. Hope she's doing better in the morning!