PachanPeeps
Songster
I have a week old baby Wyandotte whose neck started hanging/drooping today, usually downwards but sometimes down and to the side. She's tiny compared to the two EEs in the brooder with her, but she's eating, drinking, and getting about. Poop is normal. Aside from her tininess and drooping neck & head, I don't see anything else going on.
I started administering some nutridrench and will get some vitamin e & b-complex after work in case it's wry neck or a head injury... Praying it helps her!
However, I'm nervous because I had another Wyandotte who only made it 2 days. She was small, weak, lethargic, and unsteady, and she had pasty butt. She got nutridrench and was eating and drinking on her own, but died on night 2. :-(
Wondering if this is wry neck or something going on with the Wyandotte flock from where I got the chicks (nice family feed store that gets chicks from a Colorado hatchery; the EEs are totally normal) -- genetic disorder or disease? Mareks? I'll probably call the feed store to see if anyone else has had problems with the Wyandottes too.
Any advice, suggestions, ideas, and prayers would be graciously welcomed.
I started administering some nutridrench and will get some vitamin e & b-complex after work in case it's wry neck or a head injury... Praying it helps her!
However, I'm nervous because I had another Wyandotte who only made it 2 days. She was small, weak, lethargic, and unsteady, and she had pasty butt. She got nutridrench and was eating and drinking on her own, but died on night 2. :-(
Wondering if this is wry neck or something going on with the Wyandotte flock from where I got the chicks (nice family feed store that gets chicks from a Colorado hatchery; the EEs are totally normal) -- genetic disorder or disease? Mareks? I'll probably call the feed store to see if anyone else has had problems with the Wyandottes too.
Any advice, suggestions, ideas, and prayers would be graciously welcomed.
