Just wanted to update because perhaps it may help others who may experience this issue, when searching for answers -- and, also because I hate when someone posts an issue, and then never lets those who've helped know the outcome!
While I have continued to supplement Vitamin E (to the whole...
Not sure if the Vitamin E and Rooster Booster is finally helping, but removing the aprons this morning HAS made an appreciable difference! Neither is completely back to normal -- but there is definite improvement.
You may well be a chicken genius! Thank you from Ruby and Henrietta, too. <3...
I thought perhaps? -- although it's hard to imagine how they are deficient when they eat a decent All Flock diet? -- and I am supplementing them with the Vitamin E, rooster booster, and a vitamin additive in their water... so it's a mystery indeed!
Both of them move their necks seemingly normally. They don't seem stiff or odd particularly? However, they seem slightly disoriented, for lack of a better description. They are eating and drinking well.
Today I gave each of them 600 IUs of Vitamin E via soft gels I squeezed directly into...
My hen, Ruby, has always been lowest in the pecking order of 13 hens (with a roo) -- and more "sensitive" to new things. She has always crouched a lot and will walk/move backwards when she has a new apron put on, is nervous, etc. -- it has seemed to be her way of showing submission.
However...