baby chicken with wry neck and swollen crop

[chooks4life]

If you gave him a multi worm treatment he should be free of Gapeworm as well but sometimes they need a more specialized treatment. There's threads on this forum about that, I've never had worm issues so don't know offhand. I'd check the label of whatever you gave him last and see if it's supposed to kill Gapeworm as well. If not, I guess that's one other angle to treat.

Sounds like maybe a tapeworm cyst in the brain, which is a permanent issue generally only able to be solved by surgery, but there's so many things that can cause these symptoms, guessing is kind of useless.

Treatment is likely to need to be long term, whatever this issue is; once you're seeing symptoms of this nature the cure is very rarely an overnight thing. Stopping a treatment because results are not instantaneous would be a mistake. He's showing cumulative damage, this did not happen to him overnight, it slowly built up until it reached the point of him showing these symptoms.

I'd have him on the St John's Wort as a support, it can treat many issues regardless of what caused them. It's proven to work against tumors (especially those affecting the nervous system), viruses, autoimmune diseases, cancers, general nerve damage, and a lot more, and it shouldn't hurt him.

Since we still don't know what's wrong with him, treating it specifically is difficult and guesswork is about all we have to go on at the moment.

Best wishes.

 

[Henkie]

Thanks again Chooks4life.

St. John's wort has been added to his diet as well as raw garlic, vitamin E and a multivit, echinacea and sometimes turmeric.

I am thinking maybe Newcastle now. But not giving up hope yet. He's often way too alive and active.

I will keep you posted.

 

[chooks4life]

Good luck, hope it works out.

Best wishes.

 

[Henkie]

Hi,

Just wanted to share that Henkie has miraculously improved. No more signs of wryneck, none!
He is strong and well and growing every day
I don't know what did the trick, but I have been treating him with St. Johns Worth, so who knows, that might have been the cure

Thanks so much for your replies, also from Henkie!

 

[chooks4life]

That's really great to hear. Thanks for letting us know!

I hope it's a permanent improvement, but just a word of caution: with neurological symptoms like this relapses aren't uncommon, so personally I'd keep him on whatever treatment you're doing now for at least another week, St John's Wort included. Sometimes the treatment shows improvement quickly but the underlying issue needs a bit longer to resolve, but people take them off the treatment too soon because they looked better, and they relapse because the underlying issue is not yet healed completely.

This is particularly true for neurological issues including wry neck and tumors that are impeding nerve function and causing neurological symptoms, since it often took a fair bit of long term damage for them to get that way it tends to take a while for them to recover.

Since the symptoms tend to show as failure in some function, and the treatment can resolve the issue in function quickly, it can give the false impression that the deeper issue is fixed, but that takes more time. All it's done is 'patch the potholes' so to speak, the real roadworks take a bit longer.

One way to look at this is to compare some disease symptoms with wounds. The body scabs over the surface of a wound quickly but healing the wound beneath takes longer. Hopefully all this makes sense, lol!

Hope he goes from strength to strength.

Best wishes.

 

[Momzilla71]

We have a chick that when it eats or drinks puts it head away back and leaves for a few seconds and also how much should we feed it? We have I believe starter feed.

 

[nuthatched]

We have a chick that when it eats or drinks puts it head away back and leaves for a few seconds and also how much should we feed it? We have I believe starter feed.

This thread is from 2014 and full of inaccurate to harmful information .
I'd recommend starting a new thread with all the symptoms you're seeing.