Edit: Genetic Wry neck?

[Rin]

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I probably wont be very helpful there. The silkie died 24 hrs after showing symptoms and every post I hunted through on the subject has indeed mentioned wry necked chicks pulling through... but grew into adults with permanent odd quirks. I can't sell them, I can't breed them, I can't even house them away from my breeding flock to be sure it isn't passed on even worse(especially since they'd be related to the roo), I only have one cage and was willing to fight for one but now it's two so COULD be genetic and if it is.. given my circumstances. I might need to not only cull them but finger their mother and cull her too

Anyone know anything about genetic Wry neck?

 

[Rin]

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Already been on poly for 3 days and still getting worse. I'm thinking time to cull

 

[Break an Egg]

I'm so sorry. I would look into a good breeder feed if you haven't already. They sell one at my feedstore that raises hatchability from what they told me. It may help.

 

[Rin]

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Whats it called? I'd rather look into all possibilities before I start culling adults especially when a google search brought up a post of someone saying it takes BOTH parents to pass it on (which I don't really believe given how common wry neck is).

 

[hennyannie]

I can certainly see where there may be genetics involved because this chick i have is a new breed to me, I have just been raising RIRs, BR, Sex-links and the like. This is my first time seeing this.Do some breeds show this more often than others? Also I can see now that this chick is gonna act a bit differant from normal.

 

[Rin]

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Vaulted skull breeds like silkies and polish do a lot because they can get hurt very easily(having soft spots in their skulls like human babies or something). But thats not considered a "genetic cause" so much as just a possible outcome to the way the breed is built. When I say genetic, I mean hatched that way. As in no way to avoid it - only to treat it once they're out and hope they live a somewhat normal life later if they live. That said there isn't any "breeds" that carry it genetically in the way I mean.. if there was they'd be unable to live long enough to reproduce in most circumstances and continue on. XD

Googling somore some study claims humidity during incubation or injury after hatching are what causes it - not genetics or nutrition.. still I'll be looking into it. I have another batch in the bator right now. Will see how these do on nutritional boosting after hatching or if I have more issues with millies specifically. I do watch my humidity but it's not easy to figure out what "zone" of it is causing this - too dry? Too wet? Last hatch seemed perfect to me for humidity. First time I got it right enough that so many hatched.

I'm just concerned so many died without any really notable cause.

 

[hennyannie]

Gotcha. Its funny because the first time I saw this chick acting this way I thought she had to have been injured some way because she was perfect before.

 

[Rin]

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Yeah

its very "sudden" and I think I totally missed - what is she and what do you have her in with? I have an even better theory of what happened. It seems my chicks who got it were all my "smaller than usual" chicks. For some reason I get "Super banties" thrown that are about half the size of the others and they all died inexplicably. I think they possibly just got hurt to bigger chicks playing kickball. The first chick to get it of these two definitely had trauma. They were stuffed in the chick feeder upside down when I found them. But this even littler chick that now has it and I definitely saw them getting rolled around before due to their size.

 

[hennyannie]

The chick that got hurt is a Wyanadotte I think. I got it with my RIRs, BRs, EEs. It just said heavy assortment.But I also have some bantams in there and they are so tough and bossy. They probably ran over that bigger chick. haha

 

[Break an Egg]

It's just called a breeder mix from Jupe Mills, you may want to call around and see what kinds of feed there are to offer in your area.