I believe it was mites... tiny red mites. We treated our girl's sneezing with anti-parasite drops; the kind you get from a vet and apply to the nape of an animals neck. Since this post we've moved from Southern California to Seattle - during the move I disassembled our old coop and discovered...
My 9 month old Barred Rock hen began sneezing 2 weeks ago. She doesn't have any other symptoms - no watery eyes, crust about the face, swelling, loss of appetite or energy, or decrease in egg production. She lives with 2 other chickens, neither of which are sneezing or showing any other signs...
Documenting this for future wry-neck readers.
2nd Day - Affected Silkie seems better - might be too soon to make this declaration but she certainly isn't visibly worse. I've seen videos of wry-neck chickens who've got their heads totally upside down or stuck to their chest, but mine is...
Polish and Silkies seem to have this problem - it might be genetic or it might be their vaulted skulls make them particularly vulnerable to injury. In any case, here is a crookneck treatment I've seen on several sites:
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Week 1
Twice a day
2.5 mg of prednisone
400 IU of vitamin E...
I've got an 8 month old Silkie hen who began exhibiting a right-leaning bend in her neck about two days ago. At first it was so subtle I thought it was just her being weird. This morning however the bend in her neck had become so pronounced I knew something was off.
I've researched wry-neck...
I just installed a solar LED light a few days ago myself. My younger silkies were refusing to go up the ramp at dusk, so I positioned the light to allow them to see into the roost from the bottom of the ramp. Sure enough, they began going up the ramp like their sisters, and none of the...