Sick chicken jerking her head backwards while pushing her body against the wall

JuliaSunshine

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Apr 3, 2022
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One of 31 week old Light Sussex pullets looks sick since this morning, 7 hours ago. She doesn't move, eat or drink. I tried to feed her water but she couldn't swallow it.
She drooled for awhile and then keeps jerking her head backwards while pushing her body against the wall. There's some poo dried out hanging under her vent but the vent itself looked clean even though it kept pulsing. What could it be? I couldn't feel her crop which means it's empty? She free range with no fence all day.
 
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She looks to be having a neurological problem causing the twitching. It could be seizure activity or something affecting her brain. A head injury, vitamin E deficiency, or disease could be possibilities. Does this activity stop? Could you start giving her some human vitamin E softgels 1 daily into her beak, along with 1/4 tablet of B complex or other chicken vitamin? Is she drinking or eating? Oh I see that she is not. Try holding a cup up to her beak and dipping her beak for a second.
 

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