Lavender Ameraucana- I'm devastated

[ChiefSuperFly]

I've got 3 younger lavs. The smallest one slipped between my feet into the feed room where I have a silkie pair. The silkie roo who is 6 months and hormonal jumped her! Grabbed her neck and mounted her. She's the smallest of the 3 at 16weeks. The day after her neck was twisted and she couldn't connect with the scratch I threw out. Yesterday her neck is worse and she takes spells "flopping" around. I've had them all since 1 day old and never has she had any funny business about her ((( today I started giving her vitamin e and sunflowers with a dropper and also some electrolytes. I'm so upset as these are my babies amongst all of my birds! When I hold her up her legs tremble/ twitch and I'm terrified it's nerve damage but how can I tell vs wry neck? Is there any hope?! I want to put her out of her misery but I'm not one to give up please help!

 

[Eggcessive]

I would also give her something that contains vitamin B1 or thiamine, which is found in most poultry vitamins, B complex tablets, beef liver, yogurt, and many other foods. A twisted neck or wry neck can be a sign of some infectious diseases such as Mareks disease and others, as well as wry neck from a head or neck injury or a vitamin deficiency. I would give her some time to recover, or see if she gets worse. make sure that you help her get enough to eat and drink, or help her.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can you post a video of her?

Wry neck is a neurological condition caused by injury/head trauma, vitamin E deficiency and certain diseases like Marek's, Newcastle and others. Could be that she suffered injury/damage while being mounted or stress from being "jumped" caused an underlying disease to present itself.

Do the best you can - provide her with the Vitamin E, Selenium and B Vitamins. Selenium can be found in eggs.
If she is in bad enough shape that you are considering putting her down, then that may be the kindest thing to do - if so, sending her for testing/necropsy would be a good idea. I'm assuming you are in Boone, NC(?)
North Carolina State Testing: http://www.ncagr.gov/vet/ncvdl/
Marek's:http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq
Wry Neck: http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/Crookneck/Crookneck.html

 

[ChiefSuperFly]

I wish I could post a vid but uploading pictures takes me forever as I'm posting from a cell and our service is horrible here. I would put myself down if it was mareks! Surely it's not... I'll be looking for a vitamin supplement. If I hold her upside down (seems awful but I had to try) she will drink. When I hold her naturally her head spins. I truly think it's the silkies fault! After it happened she was roosting on the coop floor and I didn't think much of it. They are about the same size but he's stout and well, she's a very gentle ameraucana. I'm ill over the whole thing... and on top of that out of the 4 youngsters (Cloudy is a few months older than the 3) I'm fairly certain this one is a pullet like Cloudy. My ameraucana roo leaves the young ones alone. If it's nerve damage is there any hope? She's not having tremors it's just her legs when I pick her up I've had her separated so maybe she can rest. Everything looks normal her eyes too. How much fluids do I need to give her? I've got syringes handy. Ugh this is awful!

 

[ChiefSuperFly]

Lastly I will happily feed her eggs it would be easier than sunflower seeds. Is it in the yolk? Thank you guys for all the info so quickly!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

You can scramble or hard boil the egg, chop it up and hand feed it to her - I believe the whole egg contains selenium.
Here's a video that may help you feed/water her --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFj_UKfzsXw

 

[ChiefSuperFly]

I ended up taking her to the local vet. He's retired but I trust him. We put her down he said her neck was broke. I cried over it today. Stupid silkie! I posted a pic of the silkie pair the other day asking friends what to name them. This was before all this- and their names are now Harvey and Irma. The shoe fits! I guess things happen for a reason... my second hatch started last night and all of my ameraucana black splits are girls except 1. I'm sad about my little pullet but at least I can look forward to these new babies

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry for your loss. Her symptoms did not seem like a broken neck, where she probably would not have been able to move or even breathe. She may well have been injured though, or suffered from wry neck.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[ChiefSuperFly]

Yea I thought she wouldn't be able to move with it broken but he said it was because of nerve damage. I have no idea honestly but she seemed to be in pain I had to take her I couldn't stand for her to suffer