Need more help!!!!please

Sorry its me again!!!! the last araucana chick to hatch spent the night fluffing up with a welsummer chick in the incubator,  got up this morning and put them in the brooder but the araucana has one leg sticking out to the side!!??? it can still get about by hobbling (quite quick too) but its leg sticks out to 1 side an when it lays down it does it too!!!
Is this spraddle leg or something else!!! ?
Is there anything i can do? im sure i read something about little straps ?



Debbie x

found this on the hen house, it was posted about the 15th May by poppies
Hi agree spraddled legs are not a disease  it is dislocated hips, oh used to cull them but I tie 2 knots in a 3" elastic band put one of their little legs in each hole keep trying length untill they can  stand /walk  straight - this is for bantams  larger chicks made need a bigger band, in 7-10 days take the bands off and they are fine this has worked every time i have done it

Good luck, not had to do it myself (yet) so can't offer any personal experiance help.

Have a look at this link. Have used plasters a couple of times now and it does work

Jenny

http://www.poultryhelp.com/spraddle.html