splayed leg

  1. louiseschwieker

    Chick with (semi-fixed?) Spraddled/splay leg.

    I have a silkie chick that hatched about 2 days ago. she hatched a couple days earlier than expected. When we put her in the broader I noticed she had straddle leg and couldn't walk. I made a brace for her when I noticed her issue. The brace I made was like the one from the chicken chick...
  2. Lazy Farmer

    SUDDEN DEATH.. another one bites the dust :(

    Because we hatch 3 times a month, loosing a chick now does not devastate me like it did in the beginning. I am not a monster.. just I have excepted the fact that death is in the deck of cards. It is easy to become desensitized when you run a small farm because death is an inherited factor. We...
  3. Lazy Farmer

    Splay legs correction again

    Last weekend was another hatch for us. On the second day, we had some assisted hatched. 3 were sticky and had thick umbilical cord issues. Usually along with that comes leg splay etc. The 3 did have splayed legs. 2 were minor but the last was bad. We did our trusty chick handcuff method and 2...
  4. Lazy Farmer

    SPLAYED CHICK LEG HELP

    I created this simple Article to help with BYCers with new born chicks with Splayed legs. I have seen many posts on the subject and want to help. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-we-correct-splayed-legs-on-new-chicks.72873/ I hope the article is useful and you have good fortune with...
  5. How "We" Correct Splayed Legs on New Chicks.

    How "We" Correct Splayed Legs on New Chicks.

    This is a plain and simple Article without too much technical mumbo jumbo created for an easy guide for Chicken Enthusiasts whom would like to see a hands on method of correction of Leg Splay. This poor little Moulted Java Chick had a rough time at the beginning of his life. Too much humidity...
  6. mimoo1234

    Splayed leg

    my chicks hatches late last night and early this morning. My cream crested legbar chick seems to have a splayed leg that she's just sticking out behind her. I've used the rubber band a straw method to brace it with her other one but now she's just poking both of them out behind her... she seems...
  7. Clare Mosko

    Severely crippled chick walking only on hock joints

    I just got a 1 or 2 day old golden red pheasant chick that is very uniquely crippled. It does not have splay leg, which I've treated (even severe cases) before. The chick walks (barely) on its hock joints with its shanks and feet upward. Imagine a person walking on their knees with their feet...
  8. KathleenO

    Is this chicks leg splayed, broken, or something else?

    These are my first round of chicks and I am not sure if this gals leg is splayed (so it needs to be held closer to the other leg with a rubberband, band aid, or pipe cleaner) or broken (so it needs to be splinted) or there is something else (deformity?) going on. I put a band aid on it for a few...
  9. N

    No clue what is wrong

    My son volunteered us to care for his classroom's chicks over the weekend. There was chick who had a leg problem. I put him in a separate little box so he didn't get picked on by the others. I decided to keep the baby for the week to see if I could get him walking. So I did a google search as...
  10. Emtay

    Splayed leg

    Hello, I am new to being a chicken mommy. I work at a school where one of the older classes hatched eggs & one of the chicks was born with a splayed leg. I of course decided to take her in until she got bigger because she was getting picked on by her siblings. We splinted it when she was just a...
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