Baby chick with wry neck

[LadyEmmaGrey]

Hi, I have a baby chick that arrived in the mail 3 days ago. She appears to have wry neck, though I can't be sure something didn't happen to her in transit. I think she is a buff Brahman. I found a vitamin recipe that I am mixing with egg yolk for her. She is very strong and feisty but just can't get her head up to walk or eat on her own. Just wondering if there is anything else I can do to help her along.

 

[pecky33]

I haven’t dealt with wry neck myself, but in this post, the chicken owner was able to heal their chick successfully!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-decided-to-let-my-broody-sit-on-some-eggs.1655257/page-6

Hope this helps! Wishing you good luck!

 

[nuthatched]

What is the recipe you're using?

 

[LadyEmmaGrey]

1/4 tablet selenium, 1 drop B complex, 1 drop vitamin d, 1/2 a gel cap vitamin e, mixed in pedialite. I'm adding egg yolk because she won't eat solid food even when I put her beak in it

 

[Eggcessive]

Vitamin D is not needed with wry neck. I would use 1/4 ml liquid or 1/4 tablet of b complex, 400 IU of vitamin E and some egg yolk given orally each day for selenium. Treat for at least 2 weeks. Mix a little water in a bit of chick feed to make it mushy, and feed it fresh throughout the day.,

 

[LadyEmmaGrey]

Vitamin D is not needed with wry neck. I would use 1/4 ml liquid or 1/4 tablet of b complex, 400 IU of vitamin E and some egg yolk given orally each day for selenium. Treat for at least 2 weeks. Mix a little water in a bit of chick feed to make it mushy, and feed it fresh throughout the day.,

I've been trying to get her to eat the chick feed, but I can't get her to take much even when it is mush. She will drink water and take the egg yolk mix through a syringe. I put a little crushed chick feed in there, but she doesn't like it as much. I thought about giving her some watermelon just to get something in her, but I don't know if it would hurt at her age. I can turn her head and neck into the correct position, and she doesn't seem to be in pain. She just doesn't seem to figure out how to eat or drink anything on her own even when I offer it to her. I'm worried that she isn't getting enough nourishment with just the egg yolk.

 

[LadyEmmaGrey]

Vitamin D is not needed with wry neck. I would use 1/4 ml liquid or 1/4 tablet of b complex, 400 IU of vitamin E and some egg yolk given orally each day for selenium. Treat for at least 2 weeks. Mix a little water in a bit of chick feed to make it mushy, and feed it fresh throughout the day.,

Thank you. I removed the Vit. D from the new batch. This morning, I got her to take water on her own, I had to hold her to do it, but it worked and, she was actively reaching for the syringe for her egg yolk mix. Small things but I'm counting them as progress. I'm going to try to weigh her today and try the chick feed mush again.

 

[LadyEmmaGrey]

Thank you. I removed the Vit. D from the new batch. This morning, I got her to take water on her own, I had to hold her to do it, but it worked and, she was actively reaching for the syringe for her egg yolk mix. Small things but I'm counting them as progress. I'm going to try to weigh her today and try the chick feed mush again.

Thank you. I removed the Vit. D from the new batch. This morning, I got her to take water on her own, I had to hold her to do it, but it worked and, she was actively reaching for the syringe for her egg yolk mix. Small things but I'm counting them as progress. I'm going to try to weigh her today and try the chick feed mush again.

Just for clarification, am I supposed to mix the vitamins with just enough yolk to feed it to her once per day or should I mix it with a whole yolk and feed it to her throughout the day? Also, am I supposed to cook the yolk? I've been giving it to her raw since that is what they absorb in the egg.

 

[ChickQueen77]

my pullet had something like that I don't know if this was the reason or not but she had the chick feeders with the holes for their heads and I think she probably got her head stuck in their but when I went out that evening I looked into her pen and saw her neck was like that her head would rest on the ground and couldn't really walk anyway I put her away from the others in her pen and had to water her with an eyedropper I thought I was going to have to put her down but then the next day she was the same that morning and that evening I went out and looked and her neck was back to normal again!! here she is after her neck was weird. she is a Jubilee Orpington

 

[LadyEmmaGrey]

my pullet had something like that I don't know if this was the reason or not but she had the chick feeders with the holes for their heads and I think she probably got her head stuck in their but when I went out that evening I looked into her pen and saw her neck was like that her head would rest on the ground and couldn't really walk anyway I put her away from the others in her pen and had to water her with an eyedropper I thought I was going to have to put her down but then the next day she was the same that morning and that evening I went out and looked and her neck was back to normal again!! here she is after her neck was weird. she is a Jubilee Orpington

Thank you, that gives me some hope. She came in with an order of chicks. The rest are fine, but something might have happened to her in transit. I shouldn't laugh, this isn't a funny situation, but she sleeps with her head on the ground and her butt in the air and it makes me giggle. She has been strong so far, but I worry that she is getting weaker due to lack of solid food. As long as she is willing to fight, I'll keep doing what I can.