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Seemed to be Vitamin Deficient Encephalmalacia - Otherwise know an 'Crazy Chick Syndrome' and a form of Wry Neck. It was caused by a deficiency in vitamins E, A, and B, so giving him large (for a chicken) doses of all of the above, daily or multiple times daily, and feeding him extremely nutrient dense, high selenium food for quite some time healed him right up. I had to do it by hand, every day, several times, to make sure he was eating and drinking, and yes it was confronting watching him contort like that, ending up walking backwards and tumbling right over, sometimes even putting so much pressure on his crop that he'd actually throw up. Without a doubt, he was going to die had we not intervened. Apparently the vitamin deficiency that causes Encephalmalacia is pretty common, and is usually completely reversible.