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Date Posted: 22:27:54 05/15/12 Tue
Author: D C T friendly poultry orthopedist
Subject: Re: baby chick cant walk, just flops around
In reply to: donna crawford 's message, "Re: baby chick cant walk, just flops around" on 18:34:34 05/15/12 Tue

You are welcome.
Speaking of your incubator being new I remember that back
in 1976 Mother hatched some chicks in an incubator that I
had ordered by mail from Sears. I was away on a trip when
she hatched them but when I got home I found that she had
put six very messed up chicks in my bedroom. Two of them
had straddle legs--new to me then but after a week they
were OK. (now I treat that for less than a day) Two had
incomplete joint capsules and my great efforts did them no
good. Two had twisted tibia which I did not even
understand but I blundered around and got one of those
to walk.
I do most of my incubating under chickens but usually
take eggs before hatching and put them in a cheap
styrofoam window top Hova-Bator to hatch. But as soon as
chick fuzz dries the chicks or peachicks are moved to
brooder. If a chick is weak and has to stay in incubator
longer I will wrap it in Kleenex tissue keeping it off the
hardware cloth. But sometimes I have a natural event with
a peahen in the shallow hole that she digs to incubate her
eggs until peachicks hatch (always inside a secure pen)
================AND NOW if you have read this far I will
tell you the treatment for twisted tibia that may or
may not help your chicks.
Get some thin sponge material and cut a piece to wrap
around one whole chick leg. Wrap and tape with any kind of
tape -- I use clear scotch tape. This is to prevent hock
joints from pressing together and rubbing. JUST ONE LEG
wrapped in sponge...does not matter which one.
Then bring lower legs firmly together and tape them from
above feet to below hock joints. Do not tape joints or
above them. Joints should be free to bend.
Do this overnight and REMOVE DRINKING WATER to prevent
drowning while helpless. In the morning remove all tape
and sponge. Do this every night for at least a week and
take note of progress. You are not likely to see any
the first night you do this.

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