NEWBIE! NEED HELP! Wry Neck in 6 week old???

[Deedee]

mine in this case is my 2 week old Rouen duckling. I have been giving her the vitamins and doing everything everyone has suggested but to no avail. She is still walking eating and drinking. I just don't know what else to do.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

I'm dealing with it with one just hatched out Sunday. From what I have read researching it, it can take about 2 weeks before you see any improvement, so don't give up hope yet!
I left mine in w/her siblings; she eats, drinks & gets around just fine, just has a crook in her neck, & they don't pick on her.

 

[Laskaland]

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NOT true! Mine with the wry neck became the hen leader

At this age, they will be accepting, actually if you do it right, you can incorporate new birds at any age successfully!
Good Luck
Christina

 

[Laskaland]

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2 weeks is about what it took to get my Buff Orpington up and straight. She's about 18 weeks old now and doing just fine! Honestly I can't tell which hen she is- there were 4 born in that clutch- all look the same

christina

 

[ZooMummzy]

This is all very good news, thank you. This wasn't my thread so sorry to steal it but I am thankful for the advice and news. I would say my little girl is about 50% better tonight. She still has her neck twist but she can pull herself out of it now. She wasn't able to do that before. She also spent a lot less time with a crooked neck today so all is good. She had about 3 vitamin E tablets today (hard to get the goo in her beak!), her Selenium and vitamin B. My vet ruled out mites and ear infections so that is good I guess

The bad news: lol she is asleep in my arms right now. She was with her brooder mates (2 silver laced wyandottes)earlier who actually seem concerned for her and are watchful of her. Once I brought her back up here to the office cage she would not settle down - crying and flipping her dishes over ect. I fear she is totally spoiled from all this attention and lonely too. She was already the favorite chick. Now she is going to be impossible to live with

 

[emilyweck]

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Oh my goodness! That is what mine is doing. She cries for me when I put her down. We were outside yesterday and I set her down and she just ran to my feet and stood in front of me, looked up directly at me and just cried to be picked up. If I take one step away from her, she runs at me. She is so adorable and I can't say no to her. It looks like we've both created little monsters! She is going to be shunned by the other chickens for being SPOILED! She is my princess, though. I told my husband that I wanted my chickens to be more like pets and I guess with her, I got what I asked for. Keep us posted on your chicks progress.

 

[ZooMummzy]

We have created monsters

My little girl, Ava, went back in the brooder today with her other two friends. I couldn't get a thing done and she was just being a brat. Amazingly, she is doing better with them. I checked on her constantly all day and not once was her neck twisted. I will not be so bold to say she is cured, but I am very optimistic tonight that she will be soon.

How is your girl doing?

 

[emilyweck]

She's doing well....sometimes, too well. I still have her separated and will for another week until she gets a little bigger to hang with the gang out there.

I can't get ANYTHING done. She yells at me. I just put her down in her cage and she threw a fit, so much that I thought she was going to hurt herself. I broke the cardinal rule and took her out and she immediately roosted on my arm and fell asleep. Apparently tantrums cause exhaustion. I finally got her down when she was mostly asleep and I heard a few chirps and nothing now. PHEW! Evenings are grueling!

I am so glad your girl is doing better. They are resilient buggers, thankfully.

 

[laurenm83]

Hey all - I thought this would be a good place to ask this about this wry neck... I'm a classroom teacher who just hatched some chicks and one does not walk at all! Another thread told me to try keeping him a cup whenever possible to try to develop the leg muscles better, but that is doing nothing. Working with him I think it is more of a neck/upper body problem. The legs and wings move, just don't go in the right place to stand and walk. He is a strong guy - he eats if I hold him to the food and will drink rarely on his own so I try to get some water in him w/ a dropper.

Anyway - I think it is his neck that is the problem. When I prop him up from the bottom and just watch, his neck sways slowly back and forth like he can't hold it up. I think it is this wry neck! What do you think?

If there is a chance to help him I want to badly, he is very lovable. With the baby vitamin tip - I'm a newbie, so I need to know possibly brand and precisely how much to give him... I have no clue.

Thank you for helping! BTW he was hatched this past Wednesday in the morning, so is he still "fresh enough" to make a difference?

THANKS!

 

[LilBizzy]

I have a little wryneck. His neck was in an "S" shape, his head was off to the side, and there is nothing goofier looking than a wryneck chick taking a dustbath. Here he is 2 weeks ago- notice the swirl on the chest feathers- thats how his neck was twisted.

I have been dong the vitamins,for the firat few days I gave a couple drops twice a day, but then just once a day and he's a lot better, but still a little twisted. You can see his head is almost in the center where it belongs. His name is Lurch.. Hubby thinks he looks like a vulture.