Something wrong with my Mille Fleur De'Uccle

[destin0709]

Here is a picture of my mille. She started laying down in her pen last night which I thought was weird, so I walked towards her but she got up , so then I thought she was just taking a nap. So this morning I go out and her head is hanging down towards ground. What is wrong with her. The only thing I have given her are mealworms, some fresh strawberries and her everyday food. Which is game bird grower, cracked corn and scratch. Her poo is white but watery, no blood, you can see poo in pic. I have 30 other chicks in pen so I am hoping this isn't contagious. She is eating I gave her some cooked eggs and oatmeal, but I put poultry drench in her water and am having to dip her beak in it to get her to drink it.

 

[cjexotic]

looks like wry neck to me. I have had a few do that. Give her polyvisol (your poultry drench will work) and some vitamin E and Selenium (just a tad bit) they need that to absorb the vitamin E. I get it in a tablet and crush it. Wry neck can come around in a few day or a few week. Looks like early stages. I have had them so twisted you had to uncurl the neck to get them to drink. Biggest thing is keep them eating and drinking.

 

[destin0709]

Ok is this contagious, I just had a older cochin rooster that died from similar neck thing about a month ago? Except he had more curled around neck (maybe later stage of it), normal poo, had to help him eat and drink because his neck curled and he couldn't do it himself.

 

[cjexotic]

Ok is this contagious, I just had a older cochin rooster that died from similar neck thing about a month ago? Except he had more curled around neck (maybe later stage of it), normal poo, had to help him eat and drink because his neck curled and he couldn't do it himself.

No Wry neck is a vitamin deficency as far as we can tell. It just happens. One day they are fine the next they are looking down. Sometimes it gets so bad their neck will curl under them so they are looking at the sky and walking backwards. It is not contagious. They will die if they don't get enough vitamins and it can take a while. But i have reversed this but I had one that took two months to get it back to normal and I have lost some mainly because I work all day and no one at home to check on it and make sure it can eat and drink. That is what they die of not being able to eat and dwindle down in weight. What you are describing in your roo sound like advance stages and without the extra vitamins and help with eating and drinking it will happen to this one also.
I did not use poultry drench I use children's polyvisol without iron. NO IRON YOU WILL KILL IT. I got the vitamin E gel tabs and cut the end off and squeezed it in it mouth. Then take a tad bit of selenium and desolve it in water and put it in an eye dropper and gave it to mine. I also him eggs.

 

[destin0709]

Ok I went out and bought poultry drench and vitamans and electrolytes plus packet to put in water. I will have to go back out and get the vitaman E and polyvisol. I don't want to loose her she is the sweetest chicken!!

 

[cjexotic]

Ok is this contagious, I just had a older cochin rooster that died from similar neck thing about a month ago? Except he had more curled around neck (maybe later stage of it), normal poo, had to help him eat and drink because his neck curled and he couldn't do it himself.

Sorry forgot to add. You can get polyvisol at any drug store I get it at weis grocery store in the baby section just get Without iron. Same with the vitamin E. also the selenium. I got all of it at the grocery store it was cheaper. $ stores carry the vitamin E. I got the 1000 mg. one.. anything is better than nothing.

 

[cjexotic]

Ok I went out and bought poultry drench and vitamans and electrolytes plus packet to put in water. I will have to go back out and get the vitaman E and polyvisol. I don't want to loose her she is the sweetest chicken!!

don't forget the selenium as without that the vitamin E is useless. only a tad bit of it. I just crushed a table with a pill crusher and just a tad on the end of the spoon is all that is needed.
polyvisol just a couple drops a couple times a day. Vitamin e and selenium once a day. Like I said since he is just starting to look down you may have caught it in time that it won't take long for him to recover but it can take some time if not. I think I had one that took almost 2months. I was just about to give up when I went out and he was fine.

 

[leadwolf1]

I'm worried about your comment that you had a rooster die of similar symptoms a month ago. I've had chickens die from Marek's with Wry Neck symptoms but it was, in fact, Marek's. Be careful, you don't want to overdo the vitamin E. If this one perishes, have a necropsy done. Most states have labs that will do them for little to no fee. That way, you will know what is going on. Keeping my fingers crossed that it is wry neck and she comes out of it just fine

 

[leadwolf1]

My vet, a poultry vet, said absolutely nothing about selenium....but, she did say to give .5 mls of poly vi sol, once daily and 400 ius of vitamin E twice daily.

don't forget the selenium as without that the vitamin E is useless. only a tad bit of it. I just crushed a table with a pill crusher and just a tad on the end of the spoon is all that is needed.
polyvisol just a couple drops a couple times a day. Vitamin e and selenium once a day. Like I said since he is just starting to look down you may have caught it in time that it won't take long for him to recover but it can take some time if not. I think I had one that took almost 2months. I was just about to give up when I went out and he was fine.

 

[cjexotic]

My vet, a poultry vet, said absolutely nothing about selenium....but, she did say to give .5 mls of poly vi sol, once daily and 400 ius of vitamin E twice daily.

Guess each vet is different in how they handle things as mine had me do that saying it helps with the vitamin e absorbtion.