Chicken having seizures?!

Cluck17

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Jun 24, 2018
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Hi! I have this one 7 month old partridge Cochin rooster who seems as if he is having seizures or something. It happens like 20 times a day and last for about 10-30 seconds. He puts his neck way back and lays on the ground shaking. He acts normal after these. Is this a problem? Is there anyway to help him? Thanks sorry for bad pictures. I tried a video but it wouldn’t let me post it.
 

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Hi! I have this one 7 month old partridge Cochin rooster who seems as if he is having seizures or something. It happens like 20 times a day and last for about 10-30 seconds. He puts his neck way back and lays on the ground shaking. He acts normal after these. Is this a problem? Is there anyway to help him? Thanks sorry for bad pictures. I tried a video but it wouldn’t let me post it.
Here is video of it
 
It looks like form of wry neck called star gazing. Wry neck can be from vitamin deficiency, disease or head injury. I would give him 400 iu of Vitamin E daily with a bit of cooked egg, canned tuna or sunflower seeds for selenium (helps with the uptake of the E). I would also give him a B complex tablet daily (human supplement-regular not time release) as some of the B's can also cause neurological symptoms. See if you get improvement with that.
More on wry neck:
https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/wry-neck.html
 

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