Very Sick--Crook Neck or Worse?

[miquwid]

selenium is a good one I didn't get information on that thanks

I hope that things work out unfortunately this seems like its going to be weeks not days for your girl to get better and you will probably have to have her on vitamins for awhile.

 

[la babs]

Thanks for all the help! The video of the chicken with wry neck is helpful because the symptoms don't really look like my girl's problem. In the video, the chicken is putting it's beak up in the air. With my chicken, the head is down, tilted sideways, and then upside down. My chicken seems much, much sicker. She can't eat by herself. But the chicken's inability to walk seems the same.

I just got Selenium. I had multivitamins, but I also got PolyviSol brand since everyone seems to think that that brand is the best. I'm still wondering if it's crook neck. I feel somewhat reinvigorated by all the help I'm getting here, so a big THANK YOU. Please keep it coming.

 

[la babs]

Thanks for directing me to You Tube videos. Unfortunately, my chicken's symptoms look more like Newcastle disease:

Is that disease around?

 

[bahama mama]

Mine didn't put her beak in the air either, she looked a lot like your video. Keep up what you are doing. It should pay off. If she is eating and drinking and you can get the vitamins in her, she should show signs of improvement.

 

[la babs]

I came home after a late dinner and she was very hungry and pretty alert. She's adapted to feeding like a chick again and ate over 1/8 c of yogurt, some scrambled egg and drank quite a bit of electrolytes from a syringe. She wanted more but her gullet (?) felt pretty full and since she hasn't eaten that much for awhile I stopped. She's pretty alert too, although her head is still upside down. Thanks for the help. I was pretty down and it reenergized me. Off to bed....

 

[realsis]

Don't give up! I'm nursing my bird with wry neck right now. what I'm doing is the Alan Stanford's treatment for wry neck.look up Alan Stanford treatment for wry neck you will find it with exact doses . basically its vitaminE vitaminB selenium which helps the bird absorb the vitamin E and liquid children's polyvisol vitamins and predinsone. It takes some time for wry neck to heal so don't give up.do look up the Alan Stanford's treatment plan for wry neck.his web site is browneggblueegg.com. once you go there look on the left side and look up crook neck. you will find his treatment. And correct dose amounts. Hope this helps. If you have any questions at all please feel free to PM me and I'll help the best I can. Your not alone with this. I know exactly what your going through. This takes patience and a lot of it. give her time she should heal but healing is a slow process so please don't loose hope! I'm feeding and watering my bird every two hours. Just have patience and she will pull through. Wry neck takes time to heal. I hope this is helpful. Any questions at all and I'm happy to help! Just PM me
Good luck and best wishes remember your not alone with this. Others are going through the same thing right now
God bless!

 

[la babs]

Thank you very much for all the support. I'm going to do what you are doing and see what happens. She just ate a bunch of yogurt, scrambled egg and drank a lot, and then pooped on me

. I never thought I'd be happy about that. Her head is still the same (upside down), but she is alert and seemed happy to see me.

 

[Nambroth]

I was also advised by an avian vet that B-complex vitamin can be important depending on the cause of the wry neck.

 

[miquwid]

Hopefully it's just wry neck keep up what your doing. Glad she seems happy.

 

[la babs]

Apparently not wry neck. She died today. I'm sending her body to UC Davis for a necropsy. I am new to this. I got 2 rescue chickens last fall (from a defunct egg farm) and two pullet EEs in February from a very reliable farm in the Central Valley of California. I've now had 2 deaths, the first, one of the rescues (a Legghorn) that was sick, better and then died from egg yolk peritonitis. Now this loss, after a week of day and night nursing. I wasn't expecting these morbidity/mortality rates and the effort due to illness. I've had a steep learning curve and, the last two months, I have consistently waivered between hypervigilence, to panic to sadness. Not fun. Not a hobby. Forget the eggs, which was the main purpose of acquiring chickens. How do people deal with this? Is this normal? I'm now down to two chickens, and if the problem is Marek's which is likely, I can't really get any new ones, right? The other two are either going to die or they are carriers, correct? I