One of our chickens is tilting her head so that the same eye is always facing upwards....this has been happening for a couple days...almost like she has a crick in her neck...or my hubby wonders if she has gone blind in the other eye and is just trying to see... Can anyone help? Seen this before?? I felt up and down her neck, almost like a massage and nothing seems to be hurting her...(our chickens are unusually tame as they are 'pets') Thanks so much.
This is called crook neck or wry neck. It can happen after an injury, with a vitamin deficiency, or from a disease like Mareks or others. Start her on some vitamins--especially with E in them Poultry vitamins are best, but PolyVisol without iron will do until you get them. Here is some info: http://oureggbasket.blogspot.com/2013/04/wry-neck-or-crook-neck-understanding-it.html
Here is some reading of BYC threads about it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/97121/lets-talk-wry-neck-crook-neck https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/630079/wry-neck-confused-about-treatment
