Hereditary Wry Neck

[Betsyfet]

How do I know if wry neck is hereditary?

My Pekin is 7 weeks old and was vit B deficienct when I got her. She immediately responded to the brewers yeast and walks fine, but she has a crook in her neck where she looks straight and mainly to the right but not left and has a hunched look. I’ve been supplementing her with selenium and vitamin E for two weeks and she seems to stand straighter but still not anywhere near as straight as my drake. She doesn’t seem hindered except that she warbles a lot when running.
I don’t know if she straightened slightly from the vitamins or just from being outside and moving a lot in the past weeks. I don’t want to overdose her on the selenium and Vit E since they are fat soluble so any advise is greatly appreciated.

 

[Miss Lydia]

@Isaac 0

 

[Isaac 0]

Could you post a picture of your duck? How long has she had the problem with her neck?

 

[Isaac 0]

Does her neck look like this?

 

[Betsyfet]

Yes. When I feel it it’s a hard crook in the neck. A hard angle.

 

[Isaac 0]

How long has she had this?

 

[Betsyfet]

I didn’t notice it until 2 weeks ago. It seemed like her head was closer to her body then. That’s why I said it looks better. But even with all the vitamins (and having brewers yeast since she was a few days old) she doesn’t seem to be straightening out fully.

 

[Isaac 0]

It’d be helpful to know when she developed this abnormality as it will help point to the underlying cause, if it was less noticeable, but still present at hatch if may have been a genetic deformity passed along from the parent stock, or she was malpositioned during incubation which caused her neck muscles to develop in such a way, if the parents were malnourished it may have been a vitamin deficiency in either thiamine or E, which if left untreated will become permanent. Wry neck is not a disease, it is a symptom of many disease’s, to make a proper diagnosis of the underlying cause, the bird should be examined physically, a thorough evaluation of the bird's past history should be done, and if possible diagnostic testing done by an avian vet.

 

[Betsyfet]

I’m looking at photos from the first four weeks and she does have a “slouch” in her neck that I didn’t recognize as a problem.
She could have had a slight bend that got more pronounced as she got a little older.

 

[Betsyfet]

Thank you for the guidance Isaac O.