Help!!!Year old hen wont eat and lose balance.

[lukiepookie]

I have a year old hen who neck is sticking out its neck and its head is tilted to the side. It walks fine but has trouble balancing and when it goes to peck at food it misses. We noticed this about a week ago and I've been giving her water with electrolytes and trying to feed her her normal food. Her poop is like dirrareaha and its green. Anybody know what's wrong!!??

 

[Eggcessive]

You had said earlier that her pupils were round and her eyes looked the same. Do you see any cloudiness or gray color to the eyes? Is her problem seeing because her wry neck makes her sit back? Will she eat if you hand feed her while younhold her?

 

[MochaDuck]

Can she still holding her wings ok (not drooping or anything)? Does she keep her eyes open, closed, or somewhere in between? How long ago has she been acting like this?

 

[Fishkeeper]

What do you feed her?

 

[Eggcessive]

What did you give mineral oil for? Does she have a crop problem? Mineral oil can cause diarrhea. Does he neck stay crooked all the time? If the neck is crooked, it could be a condition called wry neck or torticolis. Edited to say that it looked like mineral oil, but it was “normal food.”

Wry neck is a neurological symptom that may be caused by a head injury, a vitamin E or B1 thiamine deficiency, heredity, and is seen in several diseases such Mareks disease and a few others. Selenium which is found in egg, can be given in food in small amounts.

It is treated with vitamin E 400 IU daily, plus 1/4 tablet daily of vitamin B complex which contains thiamine. Other chick vitamins can be used as well, but the vitamin E needs to be given in a large amount. Make sure that she can get enough to eat and drink, or you might need to mix a bowl of wet chicken feed, a bit of cooked egg for selenium, and offer water 3 times a day.

 

[Eggcessive]

Take a look at her eyes to see if they are the same normal color and that both have round pupils. Mareks sometimes can still occur even after having the vaccine. Wry neck without Mareks is more common than with Mareks, so that is a good thing. The fact that she can walk around is also good. Let us know how she is getting along.

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry for your loss. Sorry about your hen with the crop problem. Making a chicken vomit is dangerous and sometimes if the crop contents can cause them to choke to death. I would probably start a new thread about the hen with sour crop. Here is a good thread about sour crop:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

https://www.tillysnest.com/2012/01/crop-issues-html/

 

[Eggcessive]

The crop contents could go up through the choanal slit up into the sinuses and out of the eye sockets, I suppose.

 

[micstrachan]

Thank you very muchDo you have any idea if it's ok if my chickens stuff in her crop it's like water, comes out her eyes and nose when I puke her?

Like Eggcessive said, vomiting a chicken can be very dangerous. You need to determine which type of crop problem she has and go from there.

 

[Chicka_deee]

Can you send some pictures? That might help a lot with more info Hope she gets better soon!