- Apr 4, 2011
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A little under 2 weeks ago we were given a chick (just hatched that day, the owner didn't think it was going to survive) with what seems like wryneck. We did some searching, set it up with a brooder and started giving it 3-4 drops of poly-vi-sol without iron a day. For a few days it was standing and walking upright and its neck was straight except when it drank water, which would make it turn up and fall backwards.
Now it is able to walk around, drink by itself from a feeder without falling over and peck food off the floor/from a feeder. We still give it poly-vi-sol once a day, but its neck is rarely straight, its usually looking up or backwards, and because of this it walks around in a lot of circles (it has no problem getting around, it just takes it some time to do so).
When we were searching, everyone made it seem like the wry neck would go away after a week or so. While it seems like it's going to survive since it's made it this far, the condition doesn't seem to be getting better. If the chick stays with a twisted neck, will it be suffering/in pain from this? Would it be inhumane to allow it to live to be old enough to lay eggs or eat? (don't know if it's a male or female yet)
Because it spins in circles sometimes it does fall over a lot and tends to get food or something in its eye, which we wash out regularly with a syringe of clean water and a q-tip. Also its butt gets a hard... poop ball built up on it every couple days which we keep cleaned up, any ideas why this happens and what we can do about it?
Is there anything we should be doing about the wry neck? Should we make it a brace to hold its neck straight or something? Should we even allow it to keep on living like this?
Sorry for writing a book, we're just trying to figure out what to do, any help is greatly appreciated! Would post pics but this is our first post and we can't, maybe in a bit.
Now it is able to walk around, drink by itself from a feeder without falling over and peck food off the floor/from a feeder. We still give it poly-vi-sol once a day, but its neck is rarely straight, its usually looking up or backwards, and because of this it walks around in a lot of circles (it has no problem getting around, it just takes it some time to do so).
When we were searching, everyone made it seem like the wry neck would go away after a week or so. While it seems like it's going to survive since it's made it this far, the condition doesn't seem to be getting better. If the chick stays with a twisted neck, will it be suffering/in pain from this? Would it be inhumane to allow it to live to be old enough to lay eggs or eat? (don't know if it's a male or female yet)
Because it spins in circles sometimes it does fall over a lot and tends to get food or something in its eye, which we wash out regularly with a syringe of clean water and a q-tip. Also its butt gets a hard... poop ball built up on it every couple days which we keep cleaned up, any ideas why this happens and what we can do about it?
Is there anything we should be doing about the wry neck? Should we make it a brace to hold its neck straight or something? Should we even allow it to keep on living like this?
Sorry for writing a book, we're just trying to figure out what to do, any help is greatly appreciated! Would post pics but this is our first post and we can't, maybe in a bit.
