PLEASE HELP! Wry neck in chick???

[SoCha]

Can anyone please help me? I need some information for my little 10 week old chick. I have figured out she has wry neck, and I'm pretty sure it is from a head injury. We have vitamin E, but we don't know how much we need to give her, when, and how. Can someone please help me?
I also want to know if I have to give her anything else? (and I don't know if this is relevant but she is about half the size of a normal 10 week old).
Please any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[rIrs roost]

Wish I knew. You can Find it on here doing a search though.

 

[Eggcessive]

One link I found, crookneck treatment by BrownEggBlueEgg, says to give 400 IU twice a day for a week, and then once a day after that. There is no official dosage for vitamin E. The mineral selenium is good to use with E. Egg, chopped nuts and seeds are good sources. I would also use thiamine (vitamin B1) as well.

 

[orrpeople]

If it is wry neck, and you can get a hold of the product "Nutri Drench" and administer it straight out of the dropper into your chicken's mouth, followed by plain water, it is one of the best quick acting vitamin supplements. I had a miraculous recovery using it with a chick who had it, and other encouraging results from shipped chicks who didn't look like they would make it. I don't measure it, I just drop about 1 to 2 cc down their open beaks.

 

[Baby_Annie]

Hello all... I'm brand new to this site- first forum I've ever joined! I live on 6 acres in Northern Alberta, Canada and have a flock of 19 very spoiled chickens- 11 mature laying hens and 8 juveniles. One of my 8-week old silkies (Her name is Ninja) has "wry neck", and I have been scouring your posts for some time, then developed a treatment regime based on this AMAZING article- thank you so much for sharing it!

http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/Crookneck/Crookneck.html

I'm on Day 8 of treatment, and I get more clever every day- who says you can't teach an old cat new tricks! I used tiny cubes of fresh brown bread to "soak" up the vitamin E that I squeeze out of 2 200IU capsules twice a day, then crush a 1/4 tab of selenium into the mix, and top it off with a drop of Kindervital (organic baby vitamins). I then give Ninja a treat of 3 blueberries and all the scrambled eggs she wants. Wanting her to have as much opportunity as possible to remain bonded to the rest of the juveniles, as well as being able to forage in the 6 acre free range forest that my other chickens have claimed, I leave her outside during the day. But, these babies sleep high at night- and Ninja can't jump that high without having a seizure, so I bring her inside each evening for her meds and to sleep with two stuffies in a laundry basket beside my bed. Obviously she has become VERY tame, and I have fallen VERY much in love with her...

Things were going really well until I brought her in last night. She seemed to have relapsed- more seizures, more frequently. What???? She ate well, but when I picked her up to take her to bed, I noticed a torn looking wound on her wing. As I was cleaning it, I noticed a second one on her back. I think the other girls must have gone after her, she had a seizure, and they just went after her harder. My heart is broken.

I wasn't sure she make it through the night, but she did. I read 16 pages of posts this morning, and I'm going to add turmeric to my regime. I will also treat the wounds with Vetricyn (That stuff is AMAZING), and she stays in the house until (or if) she recovers. I feel terrible for not isolating her longer- I will never make that mistake again with a weak chicken- but I don't want her death to be my lesson!

Any suggestions on what else I can do?