EXACT dosage for selenium and vitamin E for chicks with wry neck?

[Coykoi]

1 i.u. = 1 mcg. = 1/1000 mg

 

[mizjenny27]

Ok, I have a 2 year old chicken with wry neck. I just got Animed Vitamin E and Selenium liquid feed, but I'm not sure what dosage to administer.The directions say to add to feed at a rate of 20oz per ton of feed for a finished feed.

Do you think 1ml of the vitamin e and selenium mixed with another ml of water would be ok?

 

[pasuit]

The vitamin e and selenium is really a miracle cure. My chick came out of it in just a few days. The formula is in this thread.I just sprinkled about a 1/3 rd of the capsule into its food each day. The capsule was a combination of vitamin e and selenium. I also fed chick medicated chick feed and spinach. Both contain vitamin e.

 

[izzy434]

I found a good way to get the Vitamin E into the chicken. I bought the one that says Vitamin E in "prelacaps" with Selenium. It's easy to make a small incision into the the perlecap with something sharp. I squeeze the oily stuff into the open end of a syringe. Then I cook some elbow macaroni. I then inject the brown stuff into one end of the pasta until it comes out the other end. My sick chicken ate them up without any struggling.

 

[Humble hands]

Hello, thanks for the advice. I don't see any selenite or Selenium on the label. What I ended up doing was guessing and mixing honey, water, three drops of Poly Vi Sol, some egg yolk, 1/8 a tablet (maybe even less) of Selenium, and one full capsule of vitamin E. Sometimes I doubled the amount if I put in too much water. I fed it to the chick with a medicine dropper, and it actually worked. I saw improvements in a couple days, but kept giving it to him for about a week after. He's now a healthy adolescent chick. What is interesting is that he is smaller than all of his brothers and sisters, though he was born at the same time. I wonder if it's just a coincidence or if the mixture stunted his growth. He did have some bleeding on the way out of the egg....But anyway, he's doing good. I think I got lucky with this, because I treated it at the first signs rather than waiting until it was horrible to treat it.

Are you doing this just once a day? This just happened to one of my chicks and I’m trying to figure out what to do.

 

[6BeachChicks]

Are you doing this just once a day? This just happened to one of my chicks and I’m trying to figure out what to do.

Hello! Would you like me to make a thread for you? I can tag people who know things like that. Welcome!

 

[Humble hands]

Yes, please!

 

[6BeachChicks]

Yes, please!

Just saw this now!

 

[jonathan111]

One of my Siciliana chicks (2 days old) is putting its head down and rolling and walking backwards sometimes, i gave it some squished up noodle with vitamin e oil (from a human capsule cut up 1000iu) but it only ate a small few specks. So i wiped some of the oil on to its legs. I am getting some human selenium delivered tomorrow and will make up a mixture in a syringe and try that out.

 

[jonathan111]

there are some specific sellers selling gel for wry neck in poultry. I found the info below in their treatment:

Vitamin E (min)………………………200 IU
Selenium (min)………………………23.2 mcg
Twice daily if treating for wry neck for up to three weeks
Excessive amounts of selenium may be toxic.

I got some Selenium 150mcg cheap off amazon and had 1000iu E on my shelf.
So i made up a syringe and will feed 1/5 of my mixture twice per day mixed with yolk