Chicken Tilting Head Unusually Strange!

[Dreamchasers5]

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.

 

[Eggcessive]

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

 

[Eggcessive]

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