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  1. jbobs

    Head bent back, disease?

    Probably a good idea to just cull :) Mossypath, I didn't see your comment about the rabbits - wry neck occurring in rabbits is almost always due to a pasturella infection that has spread to the inner ear. Rabbits are natural carriers of pasturella but get ill when their immune system can't...
  2. jbobs

    Head bent back, disease?

    sorry forgot this link too: this a guinea hen with the same clinical sign but infected with Newcastle: http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/search/disease I don't know about in the states but in Canada Newcastle is a reportable disease - I would watch your other birds carefully and do...
  3. jbobs

    Head bent back, disease?

    The medical term for this is called opisthotonus - the head bent straight back. There is another term for the head going wry at a lateral angle: torticolis. The first thing that came to my mind was Newcastle and Marek's as this can be one of the clinical signs. Here's what the Merck Veterinary...
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