I think one of roosters broke my hen's neck :(

What you are describing sounds exactly like my hen, here is my thread for her:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-neck-swollen-eye-green-poo-crop-not-emptying

She ended up having a double whammy - inner ear infection and sour crop. The inner ear infection is what caused her to lose her balance so badly and she flopped around pathetically. A round of anti-biotics and she was great again, laying like a champ and 100% recovered.

This could also be wry neck (and I was convinced I was dealing with wry neck before I took her too the vet) so vitamins cannot hurt.
 
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I had a cockerel who DID injure some of my pullets in mating, because he would chase them down, corner them, and forcibly mount them, pulling the feathers and her head back as he treaded her. Sometimes he would be the leader or a second or third cockerel on her and he was always the most aggressive.

Chickens CAN have broken necks and not die immediately. The spinal cord wasn't snapped, but movement exacerbated the injury and they eventually died. I got rid of that cockerel. No more injured pullets.
 
I am not particularly knowledgeable but I have had experience with a rooster injuring hens. One of my beautiful girls was off the lay and wasn't keen to be mated, so he attacked her - not rough mating, just attacked her and opened her neck up. He got straight in the pot. Horrible thing. The poor little hen ended up at the vet, on a long antibiotic course and special creams for the wound - it was open to the bone :(

Can't help with your hen but I hope she recovers, poor little mite. She's a beautiful hen.
 

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