A happy ending to a wry neck chick story! (WITH PICS) - WITH UPDATE

[fishermans wife]

I have one doing the same thing! It is wry neck! I have been treating - it got a lot better, then relapsed. I am still working with this 3 week old chick! It will go a good amount of time with it's neck fairly straight, then something will trigger it and it will be a ball with an upside down head again! I am not giving up!

 

[lakotapoet]

.I have one with wry neck also...after reading all these posts of others with the same thing I wondering if anyone has thought it might be the grain used in feeds? I'm pretty sure the grains used are GMO genetically modified. its my opinion that if the grain companies are fighting soooo hard to not label foods as gmo there must be something suspicious. European countries are now banning gmo foods. Monsanto is the leading company fighting labeling and producing BMO foods. check it out for yourself. if this is happening to our chickens what's happening to people?

 

[Starkasm]

Awesome thread. I came on here last night looking when one of our 3 month old silkies started doing this. Most of the threads say molting but I knew this wasn't the case with her. This morning I found this thread! We have her in the house and slowly trying to nurture her back.. What a bizarre ailment. We have 3 silkies from this batch of chickens and about 15 other various breeds around the same age. She is the only one like this! At first I wondered if one of the young roosters tagged her but it seems most likely that it's this. Sigh.....

 

[ten chicks]

In Canada the feed i use has added selenium(feed bag contains 0.3 mg/kg)and vitamin E,i have never had a case of wry neck in my silkies. Curious if adding a small preventative dose of selenium/vitamin E (if feed does not contain it)to feed will prevent wry neck.

 

[Starkasm]

In Canada the feed i use has added selenium(feed bag contains 0.3 mg/kg)and vitamin E,i have never had a case of wry neck in my silkies. Curious if adding a small preventative dose of selenium/vitamin E (if feed does not contain it)to feed will prevent wry neck.

Would be nice to know the cause....We've had chickens for years and this is the first time I've had someone with this problem.

 

[Eggcessive]

Wry neck can be caused by injury to the head roughhousing, vitamin deficiency, or diseases such as Mareks and others. Silkies seem very prone to wry neck, I suppose because many have vaulted skulls, more prone to injury.

 

[fishermans wife]

Awesome thread. I came on here last night looking when one of our 3 month old silkies started doing this. Most of the threads say molting but I knew this wasn't the case with her. This morning I found this thread! We have her in the house and slowly trying to nurture her back.. What a bizarre ailment. We have 3 silkies from this batch of chickens and about 15 other various breeds around the same age. She is the only one like this! At first I wondered if one of the young roosters tagged her but it seems most likely that it's this. Sigh.....

I have treated it very successfully on one of my silkie hens twice now. She has not had a relapse in several months. Both times it took a couple of weeks, and often seemed to get worse before it got better. She is doing great and no signs. I often blend spinach into my feed , especially for chicks to give them the extra vit E. Not sure if it helps, but I have only dealt with wry neck 2x with the same hen.

 

[Starkasm]

Wry neck can be caused by injury to the head roughhousing, vitamin deficiency, or diseases such as Mareks and others. Silkies seem very prone to wry neck, I suppose because many have vaulted skulls, more prone to injury.

I have treated it very successfully on one of my silkie hens twice now. She has not had a relapse in several months. Both times it took a couple of weeks, and often seemed to get worse before it got better. She is doing great and no signs. I often blend spinach into my feed , especially for chicks to give them the extra vit E. Not sure if it helps, but I have only dealt with wry neck 2x with the same hen.

Well she's still eating and drinking but I see no signs of better. I'm hoping this is the worse before better period :/
I have a hard time thinking this is a deficiency due to having a lot of other bantams including silkies. We do have some young roosters coming into their own and I'm wondering if someone got too rough....

 

[fishermans wife]

Well she's still eating and drinking but I see no signs of better. I'm hoping this is the worse before better period :/
I have a hard time thinking this is a deficiency due to having a lot of other bantams including silkies. We do have some young roosters coming into their own and I'm wondering if someone got too rough....

Don't give up....I felt that way on both occasions, it seemed to take forever (I think it was at least 10 days before I saw any improvement). When I could I would hold her with her neck in the right position as long as I could - seemed to help with the muscles...but then there were days I was so discouraged. Just when you think it is not going to get better, they do! Hang in there!

 

[Starkasm]

Don't give up....I felt that way on both occasions, it seemed to take forever (I think it was at least 10 days before I saw any improvement). When I could I would hold her with her neck in the right position as long as I could - seemed to help with the muscles...but then there were days I was so discouraged. Just when you think it is not going to get better, they do! Hang in there!

I won't give up on her. She's goofy looking as ever, but still eating and drinking. I have to straighten her out in the morning because her head tries to twist around. Once she gets used to which way is up and which is down she holds it kind of sideways and eats and drinks. It is taking forever.