Maybe Mareks?

[RangerThat]

I recently received 10 Australorps chicks two days ago and they went into the brooder. (The chicks have had their vaccines.) They are active and no issues but one.
One chick seems blind and her neck is curved slightly to the right. Sometimes she will slowly turn in circles and walk backwards into the other chicks. But she drinks water and will awkwardly peck at the food. She chirps the most but stops when you hold her. The chick does squint her eyes.
Any ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[nuthatched]

Could be wry neck, she might be lacking vitamin B

 

[esme13]

I was thinking it sounds like wry neck as well, which is a vitamin deficiency, she will need a boost. Doesn’t sound like marek to me.

 

[RangerThat]

Thanks y'all for the great info.. What would be a good vitamin B boost for her?? I saw "Nutri-Drench Poultry supplement" but then reading online people use human vitamin B gel.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Do you have pictures of her?
With her age it's likely not a deficiency.
Was she always like this or did it seemingly appear over night?
Is she "star gazing?" Or is her spine curved oddly?

 

[Eggcessive]

It sounds like wry neck. It can be from a vitamin E or B1 (thiamine) deficiency. Wry neck symptoms include a crooked neck, up, down, or to one side, and walking backward or in circles. It can be hereditary, and also from a head injury. In older chickens, it can be a sign of certain diseases. I would give 1/4 tablet of crushed vitamin B complex and a softgel of vitamin E, both found in human vitamin aisles. Also, a little egg yolk for selenium is helpful to increase E uptake. If you have Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell and give a couple of drops orally, that can be a start. Usually, extra E is helpful, thus the human vitamins can be used.

 

[RangerThat]

Do you have pictures of her?
With her age it's likely not a deficiency.
Was she always like this or did it seemingly appear over night?
Is she "star gazing?" Or is her spine curved oddly?

Here's a picture of her tonight before I started to hand feed her and give her water. (She definitely is blind.)
She still has the "egg tooth" at the end of her beak. So she's maybe 4 days old. (I received her friday.) She has always looked like that from day one. She does have a distant look. Her bone structure feels normal and her legs are straight. It's just her neck and her being blind which is making me wonder what she has.

 

[RangerThat]

It sounds like wry neck. It can be from a vitamin E or B1 (thiamine) deficiency. Wry neck symptoms include a crooked neck, up, down, or to one side, and walking backward or in circles. It can be hereditary, and also from a head injury. In older chickens, it can be a sign of certain diseases. I would give 1/4 tablet of crushed vitamin B complex and a softgel of vitamin E, both found in human vitamin aisles. Also, a little egg yolk for selenium is helpful to increase E uptake. If you have Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell and give a couple of drops orally, that can be a start. Usually, extra E is helpful, thus the human vitamins can be used.

I'll start that regiment tomorrow and see what happens. Thank you for the info.

 

[Eggcessive]

The bulging eye is a common birth defect, and it can be blindness. Are both eyes bulging? Sometimes the eye pressure is high, and the eye can deflate, and there are a number of BYC threads that describe that. Here are some threads:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/baby-chick-hatched-with-one-eyeball-bulging.906917/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bulging-eye-on-newly-hatched-chick.978786/

 

[RangerThat]

UPDATE.. Thanks y'all for the information and feed back in a quick manner. Unfournatly the baby chick didn't make it.