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Is this Wry neck?!? Looks really bad!

post #1 of 10
1/13/12 at 7:08pm
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I have 4 silkie chicks that are about 5 -6 weeks old.  I came home from work last night to find one with his head pretty tilted.  Did some research on BYC and got pro-visol tonight after work.  I came home and its looking worse.  Does this look like wry neck, or is this something else?  Yesterday he had seemed still pretty up-beat, but tonight he keeps trying to back into a corner and just doesn't seem very good. 

 

(Sorry for the bad picture quality)

silkie chick2.jpg

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post #2 of 10
1/13/12 at 7:15pm

It looks like it, but it is kinda hard to tell from the pic. Is its head upside down or crooked to one side?...then it probably is.

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post #3 of 10
1/13/12 at 7:28pm

http://www.oakfordpurebredpoultry.webs.com/poultrystandards.htm

 

Here is a video of a silkie with wry neck. I have no experience with wry neck.

 

Also here is another website (click on crookneck in the left column):

http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article.html

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post #4 of 10
2/2/12 at 10:18pm
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So, the original chick I put down as it kept getting worse, wasn't eating or drinking. Now, one of the remaining chicks has similar symptoms but worse - rapid onset (fine this morning), puts it's head completely under it's body or buries it's head in the bedding. I gave it a little provisol and vitamin B and will see how he is in the morning

A few questions- this is my first set of silkies and I got them from someone that bought the eggs from 2 very high quality breeders. Is this normal for silkies to have 2 of the 4 chicks I purchased get this? Is there something I may not be doing right? I raised 13 chicks last spring from a feed store and had no health issues. All were hardy breeds though. Any chance it is genetic? I'm pretty sure these 2 came from the same breeder, but this latest chic is white, so probably different parents.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

--Tracy
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post #5 of 10
2/3/12 at 3:29pm
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Anyone have ideas? I wad able to get the chick to eat this morning, but just found it completely on it's back. Kind of like when a beetle is on it's back and can't roll over. This chick was fine yesterday morning and now seems worse than the first one
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post #6 of 10
2/3/12 at 7:50pm
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Originally Posted by slimpys View Post

So, the original chick I put down as it kept getting worse, wasn't eating or drinking. Now, one of the remaining chicks has similar symptoms but worse - rapid onset (fine this morning), puts it's head completely under it's body or buries it's head in the bedding. I gave it a little provisol and vitamin B and will see how he is in the morning

A few questions- this is my first set of silkies and I got them from someone that bought the eggs from 2 very high quality breeders. Is this normal for silkies to have 2 of the 4 chicks I purchased get this? Is there something I may not be doing right? I raised 13 chicks last spring from a feed store and had no health issues. All were hardy breeds though. Any chance it is genetic? I'm pretty sure these 2 came from the same breeder, but this latest chic is white, so probably different parents.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

--Tracy


Sorry I just don't know the answers. Hopefully someone will!

 

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post #7 of 10
2/3/12 at 8:32pm

Silkies,polish and other crested breeds are prone to wry neck

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post #8 of 10
2/3/12 at 10:43pm

Ok i have a baby chick i just hatched at about 2:00 today and its neck it to the right kind of cockeyed and he keep falling backward and on its back and keep trying to set him back up but its just not working so if anyone might know what is wrong with him/her please give me some cures.hit.gif

 

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post #9 of 10
2/4/12 at 9:20am

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/592825/chick-with-wry-neck-treated/10#post_8333460

 

I hope this helps.

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post #10 of 10
2/4/12 at 7:48pm

That looks just like my naked neck/polish cross that had wry neck. Very sad :(

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Raising over 25 breeds of standard and bantam chickens. If you are looking for anything specific ask away! 

 

 

 

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?
 Albert Einstein 

 

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