Sunday, November 16, 2014

Fixing Crooked Feet

Some of my chicks born with crooked-feet. As you can see on the picture above, if left untreated, the chick will grow up with a crooked feet, although it doesn't seem to effect them much - they still walk, feed pretty well; I still want to fix it. Well, not for the grown-ups, but for the newly hatched chicks

So. here is what I do:
1. Clean the chick's feet, dry it up.
2. Prepare the bandage. I am using 3M micropore bandage tape, cut 2 pieces of square, large enough for the whole feet.
3. Put a piece of the square under chick's feet, sticky side up. Try to make the toe straight.
4. Put the other piece of tape on top of the chick's feet (sandwich-ing the feet)
5. Adjust the toes position, make it straight before fixing the 2 pieces of tape together. Stick it tight, so the toes are not moveable inside the tape
6. Trim excess tape
7. Leave it for a week

At first, the chick gonna wobble a little. It will look like a little chick with a duck's feet. Hehhehe...
And the chick will peck on the new feet. But soon will be forgotten.
After a week (or more, for "older" chick), take it off, and the feet will be as good as new.

I supposed to take the before & after pic for this post. But I couldn't recognise he/she anymore, now that they all have normal feet.
Mission accomplished :)

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