Ten month old JG pullet with wry neck

[Eggcessive]

Hopefully so. We never know how long it will last or sometimes, what causes it.

 

[Trevorusn]

Hopefully so. We never know how long it will last or sometimes, what causes it.

I know, its just hard to deal with such an unknown, but your tips are helpful and are most appreciated, and we will keep at it. I have read some recovering in 2 to 3 days, others up to a month. I'll keep updating this thread as we go along.

 

[micstrachan]

View attachment 2035788View attachment 2035789So this is what she looks like. She gets tired eating but once on her legs will move and even try to preen herself and straighten her neck. I started giving Bayer chewable aspirin, and she even ate several sunflower seeds with assistance versus me putting them directly into her mouth. She even crushed them in her beak! We added some water to the applesauce/egg mix, she ate a spoon and a half vigorously tonight, and ate roughly 2 or three this morning with some gusto. Praying she is on the path to recovery.

This sounds promising!

 

[Trevorusn]

So my little lady still has a bent neck. However, for lunch and dinner I made a mash of her All Flock, water, and sunflower seeds and she wolfed much of it down with gusto. Her left leg, the one with the crooked toe, was vibrating and shaking occasionally as she ate dinner, and she ate with alot of energy. She flaps her wings and moves her legs and toes with her normal strength. She has been moving around her enclosure quite a bit, and she pooped today too. I can even have her eat sitting in a semi normal position and straighten her neck out, it just always curls back. It seems it will be a bit of a slow road to recovery, but praying all goes well.

 

[Eggcessive]

She sounds a little better, and hopefully, it will continue to improve.

 

[Trevorusn]

So an update: She is holding her neck over the horizontal plane, so she is raising it quite high even though her head is still facing downwards, standing on her own feet, and the biggest bonus...eating on her own! She is making somewhat slow but steady progress. No resumption of laying yet but she has quite a bit of energy, moving her enclosure around and even somehow escaped one day this week, rather odd as the enclosure has no doors only an open top. But she is much improved from 2 weeks ago.

 

[ronott1]

So an update: She is holding her neck over the horizontal plane, so she is raising it quite high even though her head is still facing downwards, standing on her own feet, and the biggest bonus...eating on her own! She is making somewhat slow but steady progress. No resumption of laying yet but she has quite a bit of energy, moving her enclosure around and even somehow escaped one day this week, rather odd as the enclosure has no doors only an open top. But she is much improved from 2 weeks ago.

It sound more and more like a TBI. She should recover to near normal but it will take more time.

Wry neck from nutritional deficit has a much faster recovery

 

[Trevorusn]

It sound more and more like a TBI. She should recover to near normal but it will take more time.

Wry neck from nutritional deficit has a much faster recovery

Interesting. Could it be a genetic disorder vs injury?

 

[ronott1]

Interesting. Could it be a genetic disorder vs injury?

Silkies are prone to wry neck from brain injury because of their weaker vaulted skull. I do not know of this being genetic with Jersey Giants.

I have seen posts about crested cream legbars having issues due to their skull too.

Poslish just seem to hurt themselves because their feathers blocking their vision. They are so awkwardly cute!

 

[Trevorusn]

Silkies are prone to wry neck from brain injury because of their weaker vaulted skull. I do not know of this being genetic with Jersey Giants.

I have seen posts about crested cream legbars having issues due to their skull too.

Poslish just seem to hurt themselves because their feathers blocking their vision. They are so awkwardly cute!

JGs normally have no predisposition to this, but I can find nor feel any injury on her. I wonder about genetics though because she is a hatchery girl and thus her heritage is unknown. But, seeing as my 14 other chooks are good, including my 2 other JGs, I really don't know if it was injury induced or if she herself may have a natural vitamin deficieny due to genetics. Yet another mystery, neurological or physical.