What Now? Limping Chick. Please Help >_<

[AmyJane725]

What else? I shouldn't even ask.
To anyone out there considering it, DO NOT, under any circumstances, buy Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Bantams from Ideal Poultry. These chicks have been anything but ideal.

My latest issue is one of my chicks now seems to be limping. Something wrong with the right leg. No idea how it happened. They were all fine when I left for work and now this one is lame. I think the real answer is that I need to quit my job. Disasters always happen while I'm at work.

They were on paper towels the first week, and now I have put a layer of pine chips over the paper towels. So, never on a slippery surface. They're eating a nutritionally complete feed and are on Corid water. Which I wanted to ask about. I started it back when Wheezy was still with us, because I have some runny poops going on. I was kinda told though that there hasn't even been enough time yet for the oocysts to sporulate, so I'm probably wasting my time/Corid/depriving the babies of Vitamin B1. Could that cause a slipped tendon? (If that's what this is?) I think B7 is the main one, but also other B vitamins...oh God, did I cause this?

Anyway, for your viewing pleasure, my poor suffering baby. How do I help her?

 

[Mark_Khrushchev]

See if it has a weird figure on the leg. It might look twisted or turned. Then reply.

 

[AmyJane725]

See if it has a weird figure on the leg. It might look twisted or turned. Then reply.

Weird figure?

 

[AmyJane725]

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[dawg53]

I've seen worse limps. It's most likely a mild sprained ligament or tendon. Stop the corid and give the chick vitamin B complex which can be purchased at a drug store. Crush a tablet into powder and sprinkle it on her feed to eat.
Dont expect her to be healed over night. These types of injuries take time to heal, sometimes several weeks up to several months.
Since it's a chick, she may heal sooner rather than later. Time is the healer and be patient, she'll be fine.

 

[AmyJane725]

I've seen worse limps. It's most likely a mild sprained ligament or tendon. Stop the corid and give the chick vitamin B complex which can be purchased at a drug store. Crush a tablet into powder and sprinkle it on her feed to eat.
Dont expect her to be healed over night. These types of injuries take time to heal, sometimes several weeks up to several months.
Since it's a chick, she may heal sooner rather than later. Time is the healer and be patient, she'll be fine.

Thank you. I hope it's sooner rather than later. It makes me so sad to see her in pain.

 

[AmyJane725]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how much B is safe to give her? All I need is to OD her on the stuff now...she's very small. Probably 22-25 grams.

 

[azygous]

The Beez are water soluble vitamins. The excess get eliminated in the urates.

 

[Eggcessive]

Yep, B complex is hard to overdose. 1/4 of a tablet is usually fine, and I hide it in scrambled egg or on a little wet feed.

 

[AmyJane725]

The Beez are water soluble vitamins. The excess get eliminated in the urates.

Perfect. Thanks a bunch. Do you think one pill will do it? Like, will she get all she needs on the first pass, or should I do it for a couple days?