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YES he had a head injury! Chickens with wry neck is very rare! Rabbits are more prone to it. Wry neck causes an inner ear imbalance thus causing the critter to turn the head SIDEWAYS for balance. The animal will eventually start rolling sideways, like a dog rolling over. It progresses, over days. Not overnight!I have had a rabbit that had this, and was treated, leaving a permanent tilt showing the effects of wry neck. Silkies with head injuries, tuck there heads under their butts, they can go so far as doing forward rolls. The main thing is help the get water, and eat. The brain will start to heal, in really bad cases, they down recover. If it makes you feel better you can treat with vitamins. But I never do & they get better on their own. The worst cases, will when older & recovered, can show signs by doing the bobble head shaking, when under stress, like at a show. You can walk down the rows at a show & pick out the birds that have had head injuries. The worst one I had would start to bobble after the second day at the shows, she won tons even BV at the ohio national, but by the time to coop out, she would start to shake her head alot. So was retired to the breeding pen, and have never had a problem since. So I guess the jist of what I am saying is, if you have silkies, expect head injuries often, especially as chicks, just help them out with food & water, and they will 95% of the time recover on their own. Good luck with your little one, if she isgetting better within two days, she will probably never show signs of hurting herself. I came home from a show one day, found a 2 yr old cock, with his head tucked & flopping about. I took him, and put him by himself. tried to feed & water him, he wasn't doing good, so after a week, decided to put him down, went into the bard, and found him out of his box. He jumped out, not able to walk well, mostly flopping on his side. So threw some feed down on the ground, and he was better the next day. Well 2 days later he was perfectly fine. Had his head tucked a bit, but went out with the girls and is happily showing no signs. He also had hit his head, but if someone who didn't know silkies saw him, they would have thought he had some sort of terrible illness.
