upside down chick - please help

UrbanFarmChix

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Mar 7, 2009
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My ameraucana chick is less than a day old. It's fluffed out. Looks healthy, but... keeps tilting its head so far back it falls over backward. Then it has a hard time getting back up again, because its still got its head tilted way over its back. Is this fixable? What's wrong? Will I have to cull it?
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I put back upright and in no time over it goes again.
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I had a similar experience with a chick.
Heres what I did and she is fine now but time is very important so begin right away.

Give it 2 drops directly in the mouth of Poly-Sol human infant vitamins without iron twice a day for three days. Then I put some in the common water dish for a week.

I think the condition is called wry neck desease and it is from a vitamin defiency.
 
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Hubby is off to the store to buy some. Another Ameraucana is starting to join the first on its back too. Hopefully it's just a vit deficiency.
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Thank you!
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