- Jun 13, 2015
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Hi everyone! I went to let my hens out three mornings ago and noticed my runt hen was in the corner of the coop with her neck twisted like you see in wry neck. I'm assuming this is due to injury and after a little research I've tried to get her on the path to recovery, but to me this just looks terrible to go through and I don't want her to suffer unnecessarily, so I wanted to get some other opinions from people who have maybe dealt with this before. I put her in a large wire dog kennel just on the outside of the coop run, so that she would still be by the other chickens, but separated so they could not injure her further, I also put her on crumble instead of pellets mixed with yogurt and have added vitamin e, selenium, and poly vi sol to her diet per this website I found... https://tikktok.wordpress.com/tag/treat-chicken-with-wry-neck/ I also had to put marbles in her water, because she was getting her whole head submerged trying to drink out of it and I didn't want her to inhale the water and drown. This has seemed to help, so that is not happening anymore. It has been a couple days, this will be day three, and I know it says it takes a while for any improvement, but I was wondering if anyone knew of anything else I could do to help her out and/or speed the healing process up for her or if this is something where I need to cull and put her out of her misery, which I really don't want to do, she's such a sweet girl, I just hate to see any animal suffer. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank you!!!