HELP WRY NECK?!?

[mrsfluff100]

I just recently noticed my silkie chick (with a vaulted skull) was holding her head really weired it looks twisted and bent. What should I do or what can I do?? Please help!!!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

How old is the chick?

 

[mrsfluff100]

@ChickensAreSweet She is 4 weeks today

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

@ChickensAreSweet She is 4 weeks today

OK in silkies wry neck is kind of common. There are several possible causes: injury, vitamin deficiency, and infection.

In silkies they have a soft spot on the head like a human baby. So if they get pecked there they can have swelling on the brain and wry neck occurs.

Vitamin deficiency - usually selenium and Vitamin E- can cause it too.

Infection causing brain infection can cause it as well.

So I have seen wry neck in that age group in silkies, and did nothing and it went away in about three weeks to a month almost completely, with only a bit of tremor when my rooster got stressed, but he held his head up normally. I knew it was a pecking injury from a hen (he was with a broody hen and he got pecked by another hen). If I hadn't had any adult hens in with them, I would have gone the vitamin route.

But a LOT of people go with giving selenium and vit e, along with poly vi sol no iron or poultry vitamins to help.

There is a "let's talk wry neck" thread that is good.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/216/vitamin-bi-deficiency
Oh I forgot to mention that the B vitamins are very important as well. See pic here.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

http://browneggblueegg.com/Article.html
click on left column "crookneck" and if you want to see a silkie skull click on "silkie skull."

 

[Farm_Girl_11]

I just recently noticed my silkie chick (with a vaulted skull) was holding her head really weired it looks twisted and bent. What should I do or what can I do?? Please help!!!

If it looks like wry neck, I would recommend you take an old sponge, cut it into a circle and cut a slip in the circle and put that around the neck to keep her neck up and her active.

 

[MixedFlock23]

My friend used vitamin E gel caps (4 each day, spread out the doses) on her chick. He’s neck was totally flopped over & he couldn’t hold it up at all for more than a moment to eat & drink. It took over a week before he improved. Before a month was up, her cockerel chick was cured. She also put vitamins in his water.