Head bobbing

[Clucker Mama]

I think there's something wrong with one of my RIR pullets. She keeps bobbing her head - first to one side, then to the other, then back again (kind of like Stevie Wonder). My girls are just over six months old and started laying last month. She didn't want to go in the coop last night when the others rushed in for their bedtime treat, and I thought she seemed "off." She's not shaking her head, like her ears are bothering her, it's just this rhythmic head bob to each side. Also, she seems to be holding her wings a bit low. I'm headed to TSC tomorrow to pick up some Rooster Booster, but I don't know what else to do. I didn't find anything in The Chicken Health Handbook, just info about head shaking, which isn't what she's doing.

 

[coach723]

Can you get a video and post to youtube and put the link here, might be easier if we can see the movement. Sounds neurological however. Try supplementing vitamin E (400iu) with some cooked egg or tuna or sunflower seeds for selenium, and a B complex tablet (1/4 - 1/2 a tablet) (human ones are fine) daily mixed in a bit of feed, that may help and won't hurt. Vitamin deficiencies can have some weird neurological symptoms sometimes.

 

[Clucker Mama]

Can you get a video and post to youtube and put the link here, might be easier if we can see the movement. Sounds neurological however. Try supplementing vitamin E (400iu) with some cooked egg or tuna or sunflower seeds for selenium, and a B complex tablet (1/4 - 1/2 a tablet) (human ones are fine) daily mixed in a bit of feed, that may help and won't hurt. Vitamin deficiencies can have some weird neurological symptoms sometimes.

I planned to do it as soon as it was light enough tomorrow. The girls are housed in a stall in the barn (reinforced like Fort Knox to keep predators out) and their run is in the breezeway.