Chicks leg injury holds one leg up

[Puget sound chickens]

Is there anything we can do?

 

[Puget sound chickens]

They can get around but only on one foot

 

[Debbie292d]

It's got curled toes and looks like that leg is twisted. Maybe by fixing the toes the leg will be able to properly align.

The curled toes can be fixed within 24 hours usually.

We've had that a few times. We cut thin cardboard about the size of the foot with the toes extended, then plant the foot on that cardboard and using Vetwrap, tape the foot to the cardboard. Here's an article where they used just wide masking tape. Time is of the essence with fixing the toes asap though.

I would also put vitamins in their water every other day. We use Poultry Cell or Nutra-Drench. The vitamins help healing and growth among other things.