GobblesTheChick
In the Brooder
- Sep 30, 2025
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I’m really at a loss of what to do with this baby silkie. She is definitely got an injured left leg but she’s black and it’s so hard to see where the injury is. She’s not growing much. The only way she eats is if food is physically put in front of her. We were doing water droplets there for a min because I was the only way she’d drink. She now will drink a little if I put a tiny bowl of water to her beak. She won’t move much if at all and she breaths heavy due to what I can assume is pain. I’m pretty sure she was trampled by the other chicks that were surpassing her in growth. I have no idea what to do for a leg injury that I can’t see where it hurts. I’ve wondered getting her legs and feet wet to see if I could identify anything. Idk if I should wrap her leg, if it’s a slipped tendon, if it’s her hip! I just don’t know. She’s been like this for almost a week now and I feel awful that’s she’s just sitting here living like this. I don’t mind doing all I can do before culling her. I REALLY don’t want to. But she can’t live like this.
In the video, you’ll see a chick laying her head on the little contraption I made. That chick resting her head was a wry neck chick I I made better with the help of BYC community. She was the same size as the little black one and is now more grown than her. Where the black one sits now, was suppose to be a sling but she pushes herself out of it. So I put more fabric in there so she can just sit and be with the other 2 chicks. She seemed liven up some being with the other chicks. Even tho she’s regularly on a blocked of part of the brooder. I’m so lost on what to do. Vitamins I give her cuz I’m still giving vitamins to wry neck chicky. She has enzymes water, Nutri-Drench, and Poultry Cell. At the point the only option I see is either an expensive vet visit or putting her out of her misery 
In the video, you’ll see a chick laying her head on the little contraption I made. That chick resting her head was a wry neck chick I I made better with the help of BYC community. She was the same size as the little black one and is now more grown than her. Where the black one sits now, was suppose to be a sling but she pushes herself out of it. So I put more fabric in there so she can just sit and be with the other 2 chicks. She seemed liven up some being with the other chicks. Even tho she’s regularly on a blocked of part of the brooder. I’m so lost on what to do. Vitamins I give her cuz I’m still giving vitamins to wry neck chicky. She has enzymes water, Nutri-Drench, and Poultry Cell. At the point the only option I see is either an expensive vet visit or putting her out of her misery 
