Days old pullet with head hanging.

[Eggcessive]

Make a watery mash of chick feed and a lot of water. Put a little egg into that. Hold the chick and let it eat the mash from a spoon about every 2 hours. Offer water afterwards by holding it up to the beak. Give vitamin E, B1 thiamine, and the mineral selenium, found in egg. Here is a good link to read about wry neck, also called crook neck, or torticoils:
http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/Crookneck/Crookneck.html

 

[mew317]

I have one like that as well. Might as well look it up before the little girl/boy injures itself. It’s black and orange, being in a large group of chicks (White, peach, black and orange, chocolate white, and such.) None of them execpt the one have it.

 

[mew317]

Also, mines eating fine and drinking fine, not laying around, and is pointing its head down, not droopy?

 

[willy3486]

Update. I took a eydropper and its jar out there. I put some of the water in it and put some of the feed in it. I shook it up and got the pullet. I then used it to feed it. It would drink it up. I noticed some of the feed was on the eyedropper and it would peck at it. I then took some wet and let it peck at it. It eat a good amount and drunk a lot of the water. So I am hoping for the best. I may go out one more time tonight and feed it. Hopefully if it pulls through the night I can build it up more tomorrow.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The fellow did tell me they had their first medicine.

Just curious as to what you mean by they were given their first medicine? What is that?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Is that ceder shavings they are on ?

 

[willy3486]

As far as the type of medicine I don't know. Seems like he said it had electrolytes in it. As far as shavings there is some cedar mixed in. It also has pine.

It made it through the night fine. I went out to feed it and it did seem better. I took and fed it some food and water mixture with the eye dropper. It tried to peck the eyedropper. So I mixed some water and food in a lid. I then took the softened food and let it peck it with its beak. It probably ate enough to fill half its crawl. I will go out in an hour or so to do it again. The others are doing great. I did notice after setting it down that it was holding its head up somewhat and had its head tilted. Before it was hanging straight down. Hopefully it will continue to improve.

 

[MROO]

I'm no vet, but that looks like wry neck to me! If you hold the head upright (in a normal position) with the food at beak level, she should eat. If she's not strong enough to eat on her own with her head supported, do the same thing, but with a wet food and electrolyte slurry until she's strong enough to do it on her own.
We had to do that for about three days, but the baby gradually got stronger, and with the added selenium and vitamin E, was eventually able to eat on her own. We now feed sunflower seeds with our scratch and haven't seen the problem again... fingers crossed!
If the problem is not wry neck, the treatment is pretty benign, so it shouldn't hurt your chick. If it is, it just might save her.
Good Luck!

 

[MROO]

Is that ceder shavings they are on ?

OhMaGosh! If those are cedar shavings, you've probably just found your problem! Get 'em off those right now - they're toxic ... especially to babies! Put them on pine or aspen. If you don't have those handy, lay some paper towels over a folded newspaper section (straight newspaper is too slippery, even shredded, and the ink can be bad for them) until you can get the shavings. And give ALL of them electrolytes!

 

[Eggcessive]

Good eye Granny Hatchet! Yes, you should get the cedar shavings out of the brooder, and add pine shavings right away. It may not have caused the problem, but it is not good for chickens.