splayed leg

Had her for about a month, Orpington pullet. I believe she is about 3 months old. Been walking oddly recently, went to check on her and found her limping badly and favoring her left leg. I first started noticing this 2 days ago, but from the bad look of it it’s been around for about a week. No...

I have (2) 1.5 month emus. Took them to vet when they were 24 days old cause 1 has splayed leg and took to the vet. Put a hobble on him said come back 3 days. While I was gone to vet the other hurt his leg (leg was twisted facing backwards). So I took both of them to the vet. Vet took an xray...

I live in Barbados where there are lots of wild chickens. I found a tiny chick on my driveway which had been left by the flock as it couldnt walk. It was waddling on it's hocks, which are red/sore with a cut on. I currently have it on a chick chair (for approx 12 hours) which seems to be...

Hi all, Really hoping to get some advice/reassurance for my 3 week old chick. When cleaning their box last week, I forgot to include the non-slip mat flooring, and just put pine shavings down. The next day, my beautiful chick was lying on her side and limping. I looked at her leg and saw one leg...

So I’ve incubated some eggs that I purchased and I am a bit disappointed with. Out of a dozen, 9 were fertile and 6 hatched. I also had an additional 25 that I put in the incubator from my own chickens and another breeder - 23 of those hatched. 3 of the 6 of these chicks have hatched with...

1st time with a broody hen. My broody hen has been sitting on a clutch of eggs - 2 babies have now hatched. We noticed she would lay on the eggs this whole time in a split, or with her legs splayed out. I thought maybe this is normal? She hasn't gotten up and I noticed she was pooping all over...

Hi! I have 3 day old chicks. Right away I noticed my black silkie wasn’t putting much wight on her right leg, even keeping it a tad stretched out. Could this be a minor case of splayed leg? I have been trying to treat using vet tape wrapped around legs but still looks the same when we take it...

Hello, I have 6 ~2.5 week old chicks, with 3 breed total in a brooder. I have 2 lavender Orpington in the mix, which both looked and seemed perfectly healthy when I got them, but a few days ago I noticed they were both having some trouble standing and walking. I did a little research, and I...

Almost every time I hatch chiks I get at least one with splayed legs, bent toes, sideways feet, etc. I've heard they can be caused by the incubation process. I mean splayed legs would be after the chick hatches and slips. I'm aware that for example bent toes can also be genetic or caused by...

Hi everyone I’m new here. I normally rescue dogs, cats, rabbits, parrots etc. and this is my first time taking in poultry. I took in a young Turkey and a peachick last month both with a splayed leg. I was hoping to find out more about them on here but I really want to know their gender. As I...

Hi everyone. After researching I finally figured out my chick has a slipped tendon. She is a bantam chick and is 3 weeks old now. I initially thought it was splayed leg so I taped her legs up but now know it is slipped tendon. I can feel the tendon on the inside of her hock instead of the back...

A chick just hatched this morning and it was flat on its back, legs sticking straight out, and head kind of arched up. We found it that way this morning and it looked like it had hatched about an hour or so ago and hadn't moved from right outside it's egg. Both feet kind of looked curley, so I...

I have a 1 week chick with something wrong with it’s leg. Looked like splayed leg so I used vetwrap to straighten out. Upon further inspection I’m not sure if it’s splayed leg. I was thinking either slipped tendon or dislocated or it could be splayed leg. I’ve never dealt with any of these so...

We hatched our first batch this past weekend. On Monday morning, day 22, we had 5 hatched and 5 pipped. On Tuesday evening 9 were hatched and one had pipped, started to zip and then stopped. We could see her breathing and moving. We spent hours assisting her zip, and eventually, with a lot of...

So one of our silkies wasn't growing, and we discovered she was having trouble walking, so we've hobbled her legs with vet tape (about 2 weeks ago) and she seems to be doing a lot better...she's eating and drinking...and although she's still the size of a 3 week old chick instead of 5 week old...

Hey all, My emu is close to 1 week old. I noticed that she doesn’t do as great of a job as my other one at keeping her legs under her and straight. It’s not an obvious splayed leg, she walks and runs fine but I’m worried about long term. I’ve splinted her legs together and they both have...

Hello. It’s my first time raising chicks. One of them developed splay leg but by the time I realized it she was already very weak from not eating enough. I hand fed her for couple days until she regained some strength and put a splint on her but she is still not walking very much. She can stand...

I have a Three day old check, with splayed leg, and a watery eye. The chick hatched on Sunday. On Sunday, I realized that this baby had splayed leg. I made a brace for this baby with vetwrap. His movement was still not good. So I tried to give her some electrolytes. I put her in a separate...

Hello, I have my first turkey that just hatched last night. I just took it out of the incubator and it’s legs seemed slightly splayed. I’ve never dealt with splayed leg, though after some research I built a “splint” to perhaps fix it, though I’m unsure if it’s even splayed leg. Haven’t seen it...

Hey yall! I received a package of day old chicks in the mail today. This will be my second time raising a flock from this age. I'm asking for opinion on what you think is wrong with one of the chicks legs. My initial thought was straddle leg but when I really inspected the leg, I noticed the...