Baby chick with splayed legs!!!

Yesterday my #2 egg hatched. Usually they should start walking fine about a few hours after they hatch. My #1 egg did fine walking.

So just this morning I realized it wasn't walking, it's always sleeping too! So I also realized it had splayed legs. Not really splayed, but just enough so it can't walk on it's full hand. It walked on its (might not make sense) arm. So I took it out of the incu and tied a string, from one leg to the other to try to make the legs straight so it can form normally.

But now it still walks on it's "arm". And every time it try to stand to walk it falls over on its back, and sleeps like that. So I flip it back over to the normal position.

I also tried to take it out of the brooder that it is in now, and teach it to stand properly, but it doesn't want to cooperate. The other chick isn't pecking at it anymore. Please help. Thanks ahead of time.
Eric

I think pipe cleaners offer a little more "stability" than string would. I had posted a link on another thread that had great pics on how to "rig" up a chick. If you use google you should be able to get some pics...

Good luck

Julie

I'm with julie on this one...
Tracey

Thanks guys, you were right it does work better than just string. It seems to be more comfortable on the chick.

When I was putting the string on it seemed to want to get it off. But the pipe cleaner was totally different, it practically slept in my hand!

It doesn't loosen to like the string does. I remember I had to always had to do a double knot, and then have to fix it every day to make it tighter.

Thanks again guy, I just hope its feet get fixed.LOL. I read on some site that it should take less than a week to fix, since they grow and mature quicker than us HUMANS.
Eric