Unfortunately some chicks can be born with bone deformities, and there usually is no treatment. Sometimes they can make it with some extra care as long as they can get around to eat and drink.
What does that lump feel like? Can you tell if that's her crop or an air sac?
General treatment for WryNeck is to give 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4tablet B-Complex daily along with a small amount of egg for the uptake of E.
Hello, thank you soon much for replying and helping me to help her.
She got slight wryneck first, I went out that morning and seen her. I did see one hen run her around and before I got to her she did run into the house, that was July 14th. I started vitamin e and selenium gel for goats from...
Is her head stuck down or crooked, or is her neck limp? Can you hold her neck up? I would try to get her drinking some fluids or electrolytes. Chicks who have a twisted neck up, down, or to the side have wryneck (torticolis,) which as a neurological symptom. It can be caused by a vitamin E or...
Sorry to hear about your chick. There is absolutely treatment for wryneck worth trying, once treatment is started you will need to be patient bc it takes time. For reference, I recently treated a wild bird for wryneck and it took about 6 weeks for it to fully recover. You may start to see...
This could be a soft tissue injury in the neck, but I think this is likely to be early stages of wryneck, also known as star gazing.
The condition can be brought on by nutritional deficiencies and trauma to the neck, sometimes even if you do everything right, this condition still might occur...
So sorry. I had a wrynecked hen that didn’t respond to treatment. She had a strong will to live and made it almost to two years but was always chased away and picked on. I don’t know if I did the right thing. Ultimately a hawk took her partly because she was more afraid of her own flock. Not...
Glad to hear she's improving.
If you are using Vitamin E/Selenium Gel, then you may want to switch up to just giving 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4tablet B-Complex along with a small amount of egg for the uptake of E.
I'm not sure a pea size dose will get you to 400UI and likely she's getting too...
I treated my chicken for wryneck using selenium/vitamin E. Gave a pea size amount twice a day for a few weeks. The chicken is finally looking better. My question to put in my chicken bible is how long to still give the medicine after then how do I stop? Do i lower it down? Anything would be so...
Hello friends, I'm having some trouble with my girl Creamsicle. I've been working on her for a couple of weeks, reaching the end of my "troubleshooting" list and I'm at a loss. She has improved and is stable, but I'm starting to worry she won't survive if I discontinue aggressive interventions...
I'm not that experienced at chicken raising. I only have a small flock of a dozen chickens. I have a 2 year old white Leghorn that one day I noticed walking in circles. I also notice other hens starting to pick on her. So I separated her in to a large crate in my garage and did research to...
Thank you all so much for the information. It helped a lot!!!
I didn’t have access to vitamin e and b right away, so I gave her mashed grow crumbs with watered down egg yesterday. With the article to treat wryneck, I gave her some homemade herbs(cinnamon, cumin, olive oil, water and sugar...
...something else. It's also possible to lose more than one bird in succession and have it be coincidence. It can happen.
For wrynecktreatment, you are better off using a straight vitamin E supplement, you need the higher level to get it reversed, if that's what it's caused by. You can...
So she seems to be worse her legs are like paralyzed and her head seems to be stuck like that and then she will fix it she still eats and drink but doesn’t move at all she will turn herself but she doesn’t seem to walk at all.
I think she has wryneck. I’ve never dealt with this but this article should be helpful.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/wry-neck-causes-treatment-and-prevention.67732/