Possible wry neck in day old

[Isabelstu]

My silkies gone broody so I let her sit on some eggs. When I checked on her today I noticed this baby with her head held up quite high. First thing I though of is wry neck so I’m just checking to make sure she’ll alright and what I can do to help her

 

[Wyorp Rock]

If she's keeping her head in this position, I'd give her 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex daily.
See that she's drinking and eating well.

 

[Isabelstu]

If she's keeping her head in this position, I'd give her 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex daily.
See that she's drinking and eating well.

She’s still only a day old will it still be ok to feed her?

 

[Tankueray]

You can squeeze the vitamin E out into food, there is liquid b-complex too, but you can crush it up and mix it in with some wet food, just enough water to make a mash, not runny. FYI it will turn everything orange, don't use an heirloom mortar and pestle.

I've only ever had to treat newborn wry neck once, but iirc I only used one capsule of vit E and the next day I truly couldn't tell which chick had had it. Of course, the amount you need depends on how deficient the egg was at lay. Also, be careful about putting any liquid into a chicks mouth, they can aspirate in a heartbeat.

 

[Isabelstu]

My silkies gone broody so I let her sit on some eggs. When I checked on her today I noticed this baby with her head held up quite high. First thing I though of is wry neck so I’m just checking to make sure she’ll alright and what I can do to help her

Little update. I gave her a little bit ok vitamin E and B then wrapped her up in a sock so she can build the muscles in her neck

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She’s still only a day old will it still be ok to feed her?

Yes, you can.

I'd get the vitamins into her and let her move about.
I'm not sure if the sock and isolation is a beneficial solution to the issue.

 

[K0k0shka]

The sock is keeping her head in the upright, "wry" position and not helping her build muscles to keep it down in the normal position, in fact it's preventing her from keeping her head in a normal position. Take the sock away and let her move her head.

Vitamin E needs selenium to be better absorbed by the body. Give her 25 mcg of selenium as well. It comes in tablet form, look for 100 mcg so you can cut the tablets in quarters (it also comes in 200 mcg tablets, but those are too hard to divide up). What I've done before is mix the vitamin E powder (from a 400 IU capsule) and the crushed 25 mcg of selenium with a bit of NutriDrench and raw egg yolk, and fed it to the chick with an eye dropper. If you hold the chick so the head isn't moving, and you put a drop in the corner or the side of the beak, you can get her to drink it up. One drop at a time, it's a slow process but better than putting the dropper directly inside her beak - that can choke her and cause her to aspirate. Keep doing that throughout the day, a little bit at a time, for as much as you can get her to drink.

 

[Meg22]

I've had 2 wry neck chicks. getting them to eat any food in first couple of days was impossible so I drew up the liquid from the vitamin E capsule into a syringe and kept dipping their beak into the end of it and they would eat a little. One was just like your pictures and recovered in a few hours, other was worse and took a couple of days to recover.
Good luck.

 

[Isabelstu]

The sock is keeping her head in the upright, "wry" position and not helping her build muscles to keep it down in the normal position, in fact it's preventing her from keeping her head in a normal position. Take the sock away and let her move her head.

Vitamin E needs selenium to be better absorbed by the body. Give her 25 mcg of selenium as well. It comes in tablet form, look for 100 mcg so you can cut the tablets in quarters (it also comes in 200 mcg tablets, but those are too hard to divide up). What I've done before is mix the vitamin E powder (from a 400 IU capsule) and the crushed 25 mcg of selenium with a bit of NutriDrench and raw egg yolk, and fed it to the chick with an eye dropper. If you hold the chick so the head isn't moving, and you put a drop in the corner or the side of the beak, you can get her to drink it up. One drop at a time, it's a slow process but better than putting the dropper directly inside her beak - that can choke her and cause her to aspirate. Keep doing that throughout the day, a little bit at a time, for as much as you can get her to drink.

Fixed after about a hour in the sock