Can chickens live with mild wry neck indefinitely? Will it get worse?

[K0k0shka]

She's a lovely hen, and I'm happy to read that she's doing much better.

I have a thirteen-year old hen that went through a very troubling bout of wry neck a month ago. She couldn't eat for two days during the height of the affliction, and I had to tube feed her. She's mostly blind on top of it, and when she would try to find her food dish, she would end up with the top of her head in the food.

I figured it might be the tumor on her head that started the wry neck, so she's getting vitamin E twice a week to keep her E levels high.

Thank you! I'm sorry to hear that about your hen. I hope she gets better. Wow, 13 years though! Respectable age.