Welcome to BYC. Those can be symptoms of wry neck. Walking backwards, in circles, and flips are common. Head injury and vitamin E deficiency can be causes. How old is your chick? Holding the chicken in a towel and feeding it wet chicken feed can help to get more food and water in it. Hoping for...
Welcome to BYC Nursehev35. You need to read your labels. Nutridrench has both vitamins and electrolytes, plus some selenium and vitamin E. Nutridrench is also expensive, and it can be more economical to give it undiluted orally 1 ml per lb daily, so for a 1 week old chick, I would probably...
The deficiencies that sometimes cause wry neck are pretty well documented as being B1 (thiamine,) E, and selenium which is what the OP was doing in the first place along with prednisone. Polyvisol without iron is a good substitute until you get the three important ones, but it isn't necessary...
You don't need polyvisol if you are treating with vitamin B1 (thiamine), E, and selenium, but it is found at WalMart in the vitamin aisle and in any drug store in infant vitamins. I haven't heard anything about Meclizine (Bonine, Dramamine II) except that it's great for motion sickness. Scroll...
You might try re-reading some of this thread from the beginning or looking up some other wry neck threads. Here is a link that may help: http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/Crookneck/Crookneck.html