Chick with wry neck, help me with dosing? :(

[2 many chickens]

I have a chick just hatched today with obvious wry neck. I have it propped up in the incubator and have offered straight nutri drench. I have 200 selenium pill and 400mg vitamin e gel pills.
How do I go about giving this to this baby? Mix them both together and mix with water? Or offer one at a time? Offer a bit 2-3 times a day? Halp meee

 

[Eggcessive]

Hi there.

Holding the chick in your hand, beak facing the bend in your forefinger to help catch and direct it, do a small drip just below the nostrils on the beak. The drop will roll around into the mouth and they *usually* gobble it down by instinct.

I have been successful doing this with nutri drench only... a drip or two every couple hours until the chick was up and mad to be alone.

Looks like B12 is key...
http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/wry-neck

If this hatched from your eggs... I would consider which bird it came from and maybe supplement them some... THOUGH... the bird may be getting enough to support itself and eating eggs... but not hatching eggs.

The B12 in this link is wrong—it should be B1 thiamine, in which a deficiency can also cause wry neck, as well as E deficiency. They also have made an error in their link about riboflavin deficiency where they recommend vitamin B 12, but they seem to have recently corredted it.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

The B12 in this link is wrong—it should be B1 thiamine, which can also cause wry neck, as well as E. They also have made an error in their link about riboflavin deficiency where they recommend vitamin B 12, but they seem to have recently corredted it.

I thought something sounded wrong...

It's so frustrating!

I do see them updating and changing that site all the time but not always for the better. Think I will be sure to double check Merck or others for future reference. Thank you!

 

[2 many chickens]

Hi all, not sure if anyone is even following this thread but little dude is still alive. No control over neck yet.. but he is able to eat mash when I hold his head up and put a spoon near his face.. he actually pecks and eats. Still on the vitamin E, B and Selenium with the nutri drench here and there. Haven't had a chance to get the polyvisol. I wish I could find a way to prop him up but nothing works. He finds a way to flop back on his back everytime...

 

[Eggcessive]

How much NutriDrench are you giving him? You need to use B1 not B12, but there is B1 thiamine in the NutriDrench. The extra E is also needed. Wry neck may take days or weeks to improve, and sometimes it doesn’t get better. Glad that he is eating and drinking. You probably need to feed him and water him several times a day, and adding a little water to the feed is good to get more water into him. You might try making a chick chair or sling, but they are usually for chicks that have trouble standing. Here is a link about how to make one:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

 

[Eggcessive]

That may be too much NutriDrench. Are you giving it undiluted or in the water? Dosage is 1 ml for every 3 pounds, so probably a couple of drops a day would be plenty. Here is apicture of a foam neck brace one person used, but yours may need the sling or chick chair made from a cup.

 

[2 many chickens]

Okay.. so.. here's my gauze plus gauze tape neck brace. He seems to be much calmer now that he's not looking at the world upside down!! Thanks for the idea, egg!!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi there.

Holding the chick in your hand, beak facing the bend in your forefinger to help catch and direct it, do a small drip just below the nostrils on the beak. The drop will roll around into the mouth and they *usually* gobble it down by instinct.

I have been successful doing this with nutri drench only... a drip or two every couple hours until the chick was up and mad to be alone.

Looks like B12 is key...
http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/wry-neck

If this hatched from your eggs... I would consider which bird it came from and maybe supplement them some... THOUGH... the bird may be getting enough to support itself and eating eggs... but not hatching eggs.

 

[2 many chickens]

Hi there.

Holding the chick in your hand, beak facing the bend in your forefinger to help catch and direct it, do a small drip just below the nostrils on the beak. The drop will roll around into the mouth and they *usually* gobble it down by instinct.

I have been successful doing this with nutri drench only... a drip or two every couple hours until the chick was up and mad to be alone.

Looks like B12 is key...
http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/wry-neck

If this hatched from your eggs... I would consider which bird it came from and maybe supplement them some... THOUGH... the bird may be getting enough to support itself and eating eggs... but not hatching eggs.

Thank you!
So do you think I should stop the viat E and selenium? Just smash up a B12 and offer some? Only gave him a dribble of the viat E so far. He seems to be more chirpy but maybe it is because of the nutri drench.
Thank you for your time and help, this wry neck is a first for me. The egg came from one of my birds but all the others [9] chicks had no issues.

 

[2 many chickens]

Poor thing