Broken neck?

[Chickena]

Have you watched her try to eat or drink? That's the real test to see how bad of a case of wry neck she may have. Isolate her for the experiment, and place a favorite treat within reach. Then watch what happens. Describe that here.

Sometimes wry neck appears all of a sudden out of the blue. We may never know what caused it. I've had it in my flock, and most times, just one or two or three days of vitamin E 400iu will cure it. One whole capsule directly into the beak along with a sliver of selenium or a spoon full of egg.

Oh my god thank you! I gave her a piece of a potato and she could eat it, she could still eat but I haven’t seen her walk a lot anymore, she used to run so much.But now she barely walks and she keeps turning her neck a lot. I’ve seen her try moving the neck to the other side a lot.

 

[azygous]

It may not be wry neck if she has control enough to target and pick up a bite of food. Wry neck is neurological and it interferes with the chicken's ability to control their body's movements.

There may be something else going on. I suggest you isolate her in a section of the run if you can. Many of us have a "jail" section for such a purpose, but you can erect a temporary barricade in a corner of the run where she can stay for a few hours without the interference of the others.

Clean it of all poop so you can then observe her poop so we can assess if she has a health issue. Give her regular food and water and then observe her behavior. Watch to see how active she is, if she plants herself in a corner or faces a wall and is fluffed up. Watch her eyes for droopiness, and also watch how she holds her tail. Watch to see how her appetite is.

Meanwhile, try to think what she was doing prior to this, where she was scratching around and what she was eating. Think about anything toxic that she may have encountered, from insecticide to petroleum distillates to toxic plants.

 

[Chickena]

It may not be wry neck if she has control enough to target and pick up a bite of food. Wry neck is neurological and it interferes with the chicken's ability to control their body's movements.

There may be something else going on. I suggest you isolate her in a section of the run if you can. Many of us have a "jail" section for such a purpose, but you can erect a temporary barricade in a corner of the run where she can stay for a few hours without the interference of the others.

Clean it of all poop so you can then observe her poop so we can assess if she has a health issue. Give her regular food and water and then observe her behavior. Watch to see how active she is, if she plants herself in a corner or faces a wall and is fluffed up. Watch her eyes for droopiness, and also watch how she holds her tail. Watch to see how her appetite is.

Meanwhile, try to think what she was doing prior to this, where she was scratching around and what she was eating. Think about anything toxic that she may have encountered, from insecticide to petroleum distillates to toxic plants.

She does look tired and can move her head a lot now but her neck is tilted to the right still and turns to the right a lot when she walks.She’s tried running but she keeps on falling so much.

 

[Chickena]

She does look tired and can move her head a lot now but her neck is tilted to the right still and turns to the right a lot when she walks.She’s tried running but she keeps on falling so much.

I have also created a cage for her to stay in so she can’t be attacked by the other chickens.

 

[Eggcessive]

Be sure to get the human vitamin E 400 IU soft gels and give her 1 daily with some B1 thiamine. Human B or super B complex is very good, and 1/4 tablet daily is good. Wry neck can be a sign of a vitamin deficiency, head injury, and is sometimes seen in a few diseases, such as Mareks and others. I have a rooster with wry neck, and he acts normally 90% of the time when awake, but get his neck down and under his legs while he is sleeping or if he is upset.

 

[Chickena]

Be sure to get the human vitamin E 400 IU soft gels and give her 1 daily with some B1 thiamine. Human B or super B complex is very good, and 1/4 tablet daily is good. Wry neck can be a sign of a vitamin deficiency, head injury, and is sometimes seen in a few diseases, such as Mareks and others. I have a rooster with wry neck, and he acts normally 90% of the time when awake, but get his neck down and under his legs while he is sleeping or if he is upset.

Do you know how to feed a chicken the vitamins? Because when she tries to eat her neck and head shakes when trying to move it.

 

[azygous]

Grasp her head firmly in your hand and pry open her beak. One at a time, place a pill inside her mouth and let her swallow. It's as simple as that.

 

[Chickena]

Grasp her head firmly in your hand and pry open her beak. One at a time, place a pill inside her mouth and let her swallow. It's as simple as that.

Ok thank you so much!

 

[John Deere Boy]

Do you know how to feed a chicken the vitamins? Because when she tries to eat her neck and head shakes when trying to move it.

When I was dealing with wry neck I gave my chicken a single 400 IU Vitamin E gel capsule a day. I would start by poking a hole in the capsule and sucking out the Vitamin E gel with a syringe. Once I got the vitamin E in the syringe I would then grab the chicken and set it in my lap and proceed to squirt that Vitamin E gel into the chicken's mouth a little at a time.

 

[azygous]

When I was dealing with wry neck I gave my chicken a single 400 IU Vitamin E gel capsule a day. I would start by poking a hole in the capsule and sucking out the Vitamin E gel with a syringe. Once I got the vitamin E in the syringe I would then grab the chicken and set it in my lap and proceed to squirt that Vitamin E gel into the chicken's mouth a little at a time.

It's admirable how determined you are to get the vitamin E into your chicken, but it's a lot of extra trouble when all you need to do is pop the entire capsule into the beak as is. Chickens are better at swallowing pills than most people give them credit for.