My baby Pekin duck has wry neck.

[hannah88]

I have a 2 week old pekin duck that my fiance and I hatched from our older pekin's. The duckling had no issues until this morning when I noticed it's neck was turned like it's always looking up and it is having trouble with balance. Everything I've read says wry neck. We are using chick starter feed which is not enough niacin which we did not know until today. I read that you can use enfamil poly-vi-sol vitamin drops, has anyone had success with these? I ordered nutri-dent for poultry as well but it will take a few days and all the stores were sold out. If anyone has successfully treated wry neck how long does improvement in symptoms take and is it fatal? My duckling is still eating and drinking but it's balance is off.

 

[nuthatched]

@issac0 wrote this in another thread, hope this helps.
Wry Neck is not a disease/condition, but rather a symptom of one. There are lots of things that may cause it, with ducklings the most likely cause is going to be either vitamin related, likely vitamin E and maybe thiamine (B1), sometimes during incubation the neck will have a greater muscle pull to one side and eventually will cause a permanent skeletal deformity, shock, bacterial or viral infections can also be an underlying cause, if her yolk sac was not absorbed all the way and got infected that may have caused the Wry Neck, also possibly neurological damage especially if there was ever trauma to the egg.

These are all factors that should be considered, use your best judgment to make a somewhat clear diagnosis. In my honest opinion, I would lean towards a vitamin deficiency. Which at this age can be treated most of the time, and even if it's not, sometimes just vitamin therapy and supportive care can help relive/cure the symptoms, so its definitely worth a try, In my opinion.

If you want to go through treatment, do the following, get her started on vitamin E soft gels capsules or liquid, give her 400iu a day, get some B complex and give a drop or two a day as well. Selenium easily overdoses so you may use that as the last option to help absorb the E. Offer her scrambled eggs often for protein, keep her warm, make sure the other ducklings aren’t bully her, flip her up as needed, make sure she’s getting enough food, and hopefully, she’ll be on the road to recovery soon.

When giving her the vitamins, just drop a drop onto the side of her bill, be gentle and give her time to get everything down, as ducklings aspirate easily.


https://www.amazon.com/Nutricost-Vitamin-400-Softgel-Capsules/dp/B01I5OB3LW

https://www.amazon.com/Durvet-Vitamin-Complex-Injectable-Livestock/dp/B01DOFK0CA

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/thiamine-deficiency-in-waterfowl-in-progress.75690/

 

[Isaac 0]

@hannah88 , could you post a few pictures, or better yet a video of the duckling?