Wry neck?

[Aji Dulce]

Ok. Thank you guys for the replies. I’ll try my best to get her healthy again. I’ll update as things change

I know how upsetting it is, please keep us posted.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Glad she's better!

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Well her wry neck is a little better but now she has decided to go broody
And I don’t have a crate available to break her

 

[Eggcessive]

You might want to borrow a crate or invest in one, because if they go broody once, they may do it again. You can build one if you have some wood and some wire fencing. I bought one of the cheap $100 on sale 3 hen coop that I use as a broody breaking coop. They have a roost and wire floor to keep them cool. At least half of my hens have gone broody over the years. Some more than once in a summer, and some go broody other times.

 

[Sarah Doss]

Wry Neck is so frustrating!! Elsie, 7 week old silkie, has had it for 2 weeks. I mix vitamin E and selenium 3x a day with bread and tad of pedialyte to get it moist. I feed her chick feed mixed with pedialyte and a drop of extra virgin olive oil at least twice a day. I give her drinks of pedialyte that has probiotics in it several times a day. This is her second round of being on an anti inflammatory. She showed improvement towards the end of the last 5 day round but 2 after being stopped, she struggled greatly with Wry Neck again. I gave her a dose today and she raised her head up for short periods but dropped it quickly. I don't want to give up on her. She and her sister are pets for a ministry. I cuddle her and hold her a lot so she doesn't have head buried in wood shavings all the time. Hopefully by the of this 10 day treatment she will be over it. She can't stay on an anti inflammatory forever. Has anyone had it last this long? Any suggestions?

 

[MROO]

If you ever need to administer selenium again, try generic gel-caps. They feel like a little rubbery gummy candy, but they have liquid meds inside. I emptied one into about a half-ounce of Pedialyte (electrolytes for children) and fed it to our chicks with an eyedropper alongside their beaks. Worked like a charm! Now I keep the Pedialyte pops on hand all of the time. You never know when someone will need a boost - poultry, pets or people. And with the small serving size, there's not much waste, of either the product or my funds!

 

[Sarah Doss]

Do you dilute the pedialyte? I buy it in the powder form. I usually dilute it some.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sarah Doss, Have you tried feeding your silkie a wet mash of chicken feed, a lot of water mixed in, and some chopped egg? I would try to get food into as well as electrolytes and vitamins. You can wrap her in a towel and guide her to the food in a small bowl if necessary to get her eating. Egg contains selenium. Vitamin E and B1 (thiamine) as well as selenium are both helpful in treating wry neck. Depending on the cause of the wry neck (heredity, head injury, vitamin deficiency, or disease such as Mareks,) wry neck can take weeks to treat. Silkies seem especially prone to getting wry neck as well. Here is an old long thread about how people have treated it, and I would probably start at the last page and work back:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/lets-talk-wry-neck-crook-neck.97121/

 

[Sarah Doss]

How much vitamin B12 for a 7oz chick?

 

[MROO]

Do you dilute the pedialyte? I buy it in the powder form. I usually dilute it some.

I use the ready-made freezer pops, but don't freeze them. I don't dilute it at all, unless you count the liquid meds.