I know I killed the thread--- so while everyone is just browsing I have a chicken situation.
RIR about 18wks old seems to had a crooked neck. This am she was laying on the ground notice she looked funny, but figured she was sun bathing. Go back in the pen to collect eggs and she is moving her neck like a parrot would. Almost turning her head all the way around. I gave her a few worms I found in the dirt, she can control her neck well enough to eat from my hand or from the ground. But she isn't returning her neck to a normal position. I felt her neck& it doesn't feel right. Can't explain in, but it isn't normal. No other birds are effected. I have heard of similar neck problems in crested birds, but this is a RIR I raised as day old. Any thoughts?
They are currently housed in the lean to off the barn. Dh did dig a small area in there pen this weekend. Could be something in the dirt from yrs ago, I know it is a long shot. But that is the only change that happened-- oh & it rained!
She hasn't been exposed to anything, diet hasn't changed, kinda at a loss on what it could be.