HELP!! Roo with Wry neck?

[Butterflygirl50]

@Butterflygirl50 PolyVisol (without iron) is for Riboflavin deficiency....Follow Eggcessive instructions, she's darn good at remedies

Thank you

 

[Butterflygirl50]

Selenium is found in egg, tuna, sunflower seeds and other foods. You may get selenium in the vitamin sedrion of feed stores. You can give Poultry Cell or NutriDrench 2-3 ml a day, and it has selenium, plus the vitamins. For wry neck I would give thiamine (vitamin B1) as well as E and selenium, since wry neck can result from E or B1 deficiency.

Thank you very much

 

[Eggcessive]

You can use PolyVisol without iron as well for vitamins. They tend to be expensive and sometimes harder to find than chicken vitamins from a feed store. If you use them, dosage is 2-3 drops orally per day. Yes, a 2 day old chick shouldn't be eating too many foods, but raw egg is fine for them since they feed on egg yolk before being hatched.

 

[Butterflygirl50]

You can use PolyVisol without iron as well for vitamins. They tend to be expensive and sometimes harder to find than chicken vitamins from a feed store. If you use them, dosage is 2-3 drops orally per day. Yes, a 2 day old chick shouldn't be eating too many foods, but raw egg is fine for them since they feed on egg yolk before being hatched.

I didn't even think of raw egg.
Thank you. I will be going to tractor supply in the morning.

 

[Eggcessive]

I doubt at a couple days old he can eat any of that. I will get the vitamins. Hope it helps.

Since your chick is so young, I would only give 1 ml of Poultry Cell or Poultry Nutri-Drench daily (instead of 2-3 ml for a large bird.) Here is one that is easy to use in the water, but just doesn;t have the selenium that the other two have: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...-vitamins-and-electrolytes-with-lactobacillus

 

[HfgChicken]

Roo is almost completely better! He hasn't had any spasms yet today! I've been giving him selenium (without iron), Vitamin E, and back tablets to help the pinched nerve heal, all in his water. I also have been spraying diluted lavender on him which reduces inflammation and calms him. I hope all of you with chickens that have the same problem have as much success as I did!

 

[Eggcessive]

What is in the "back tablets?" Thiamine is really helpful with wry neck as well. Sometimes wry neck or torticolis is from a thiamine deficiency, but sometimes a vitamin E deficiency. The selenium is only to help the E become utilized. A lot of wry neck in grown chickens is due to injuries or in certain diseases, unless they haven't been getting a balanced or fresh feed.

 

[HfgChicken]

the Back tablets are human back tablets that help with pinched nerves. we made sure he could have them before we gave it too him,

 

[ronott1]

the Back tablets are human back tablets that help with pinched nerves. we made sure he could have them before we gave it too him,

It sounds like your boy bonked his head. He may have flown into something or ran into something.
The black pill likely is an anti inflammatory. He should be fine...unless he goes for the same stunt again. Sometimes they will break their neck

 

[Slike]

Wry neck can come about from a few different things, but since you said its just him and his lady friend its unlikely he suffered any head trauma to cause this, meaning its most likely nutritional.

Never had this issue in adults other than from trauma, but the way it was corrected in hatchery babies who were getting fed lackluster garbage food before I obtained them was to lightly sautee (until just wilted) chopped up strips of Collard Greens in a mixture of cold-pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil & cold-pressed Coconut oil. The quality of the oil absolutely matters, because you're after the nutrition here. Let it cool so they don't burn themselves, and feed it fresh like that. If one of a batch of hatchery babies showed nutritional deficiency symptoms I let the entire group feed on it.

The array of nutrients in both types of oils is very nourishing, and the Coconut is especially so for the brain and ultimately the nervous system.

The "star-gazing" and the forward flipping issues went away in short order when this was fed to the chicks. If he doesn't respond notably to this within a couple days it would suggest that he did somehow get slapped in the head, in which case Dandelion greens help. There are potent anti-inflammatory compounds in them that cross the blood-brain barrier unlike many substances, and I've use this to successfully treat wry neck in adult Silkies. Dandelion greens are not often something you can just go out and buy, but I can offer some tips on locating safe sources of them to use for medicinal and food purposes if you're interested.