Weak legs?

[Ineke9909]

One of my little chicks seems to be walking on his legs instead of his toes, what could that mean? Otherwise its doing fine, eating, drinking etc. It is three days old.
i checked the legs, there doesnt seem to be any deformity, just looks like the legs are weak, not standing all the way up.
They are eating chick starter food, and I have electrolytes in the water, the other two chicks are fine.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Hello! I would add nutri drench to your chicks water, give her raw yolk, and also if you can get b complex plus at your local pharmacy, wall Mart or Target.

Crush it and add to the water as well. It would be hard to just dose the chick, the dose is tiny.

 

[Ineke9909]

They do have electrolytes in their water, is that the same? If not I’ll definitely go out tomorrow to get it. And i will put out the raw yolk in the morning

 

[SmiYa0126]

Nutri drench is more nutrient dense.

 

[Ineke9909]

Ok, thanks for the info.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

One of my little chicks seems to be walking on his legs instead of his toes, what could that mean? Otherwise its doing fine, eating, drinking etc. It is three days old.
i checked the legs, there doesnt seem to be any deformity, just looks like the legs are weak, not standing all the way up.
They are eating chick starter food, and I have electrolytes in the water, the other two chicks are fine.

Make sure your chick is eating her chick starter.

Get a bottle of B-Complex vitamins at Walmart, CVS, etc. Dissolve 1/4 tablet B-Complex in a very small amount of water and syringe the drops into the chick each day - you can give her a few drops at a time during the day if you wish.

Poultry Nutri-Drench does not contain B2(Riboflavin) which is a target vitamin for leg health, so B-Complex is the way to go on this.

Please post photos of your chick or a video of how she moves. Upload video to youtube and provide a link.

 

[Ineke9909]

Turns out, it has an injured leg, which appears to be healing. It walks now with a limp on the right side, still rests his legs at times by sitting. But he is eating, gave him egg yolks for the vitamin B2, and he is doing his best to keep up with the other chicks, and is growing.nSo, we will wait and see. (He/she)

 

[Ineke9909]

Turns out it had an injured leg. As it started to get up and walk more it was limping on one leg. Now at a week, it is walking more but still stops to rest. Getting better