Wry neck chick has bad reaction to drinking

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viggo63 said:
Do you know of a treatment for that? Is there such a thing as a chicken chiropractor???
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I do not know of any chicken-chiropractor, but I had some good results by administering some magnesium citrate dissolved in the water and some hours later very careful physiotherapy.
 
LaFleche said:
I do not know of any chicken-chiropractor, but I had some good results by administering some magnesium citrate dissolved in the water and some hours later very careful physiotherapy.
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Interesting. What kind of physiotherapy did you perform?
 
Here are some videos from today. Warning: her struggling may be difficult to watch.
She can usually right herself, but there are times when I've found her prostrate as if she's given up trying. She's about 16 days old and still very tiny. She has grown quite a bit in the past week once she got up and started eating on her own. She is still getting Poultry Cell 3x/day.

This is her at her best. She walks well, but you can see that her head wants to tilt to the right:

This is what happens when she takes a drink on her own:

This is one way I've been getting water in her. I also use an eyedropper while holding her the same way. Both ways causes the same effect in her:
 

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