Can chickens get hiccups?

[flappychicken]

One of my rooster's is pulling his head back to his shoulders. It looks like it is not voluntary, and he seems less spunky. So I am not sure but it looks like hiccups.

 

[Sunny-Side Up]

I don't know if they can. In fact, I don't even know why humans get hiccups. I'll have to search that up Maybe your rooster is trying to crow it show off.

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you post a picture or a video? It sounds like wry neck (torticolis, crook neck, star gazing.) That can be a neurological symptom of vitamin E or B1 deficiency, a head injury, and is also seen in some respiratory diseases, and in Mareks disease. Is he making a hiccup sound? Wry neck usually is treated with vitamins, such as NutriDrench 3 ml daily, or poultry vitamins. Make sue he is drinking and able to eat. If he has a hiccup sound, that can be a sneeze.

 

[flappychicken]

I will try to get some footage for ya. He did get his head pecked balled when he was a chick (also he is a sultan) He is not making noises. Right now he is not getting anything but grain (cuz the grass and basically all life is dead(#winterinNH)) but he used to get all the good stuff from the out doors.

thanks!!!

HAVEAGOODONE!!!

 

[Eggcessive]

What exactly are you feeding—a balanced chicken feed (grower, layer, or an all flock feed,) or mixed grains? Unless it is a balanced feed, there may be a vitamin deficiency. I would treat him for wry neck with thiamine and E vitamins, and offer a little chopped egg or tuna for selenium. If he needs to be helped to eat and drink enough, you can hold him and feed him a mixture of chicken feed mixed with a lot of water to get water into him.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Yes, birds can get hiccups, but that's not what it looks like. They make tiny noises and jerk, like most other things that hiccup.

 

[flappychicken]

alright I am feeding him layer pellets. (Cuz he lives with layers) along with the cafeteria food from the local school. Not often (I forgot to put this in the last message). It's all the stuff off the salad bar and what ever the kids didn't eat.

 

[lilmillefleur]

Could we see a video?

 

[flappychicken]

yeah I will bring my camera out tomorrow see if he is doing it (it's comes and go's some day's) that's why I thought it was hiccups

 

[Allie Grace Sanders]

Not trying to crowd this thread, but my cockerel (7 months old) brings his head in and jiggles it back and forth. I just got him yesterday, and I've never had a male chicken.