Correcting splayed legs

3 06 2007

The chick with hobbles on

We hatched 11 Scots Grey chicks on Thursday and Friday, but one had seriously splayed legs that meant it couldn’t move about to reach the chick crumbs and water. The solution was to use soft yarn hobbles to pull its legs together while still allowing it enough freedom to walk. Within an hour of putting the hobbles on, the chick had worked out that it could walk and was away.

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