Wry neck?

[Eggcessive]

There is no disrespect to you, but since I try to help others here with dosages and treatments, I have looked up dosages in as many poultry drug references or studies that I can find. Since most chicken feed already contains enough vitamin E and selenium already, only small amounts are needed for neurological conditions such as wry neck. I only have about 12 years of experience, but others here tend to use those same dosages. I’m glad that you have had good results with your flocks for so many years. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good sources available for drug dosages. Plumbs Veterinary Drug Book is a good one. On this forum, most of us try to suggest treatments we have tried or know to be correct, and it is up to the person asking for help to read all of the replies and choose for themselves what to do.

 

[Wanderers tales]

There is no disrespect to you, but since I try to help others here with dosages and treatments, I have looked up dosages in as many poultry drug references or studies that I can find. Since most chicken feed already contains enough vitamin E and selenium already, only small amounts are needed for neurological conditions such as wry neck. I only have about 12 years of experience, but others here tend to use those same dosages. I’m glad that you have had good results with your flocks for so many years. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good sources available for drug dosages. Plumbs Veterinary Drug Book is a good one. On this forum, most of us try to suggest treatments we have tried or know to be correct, and it is up to the person asking for help to read all of the replies and choose for themselves what to do.

I do appreciate a civil conversation. Same for arguments. It’s good to publish valuable and academic information with those who share interests. It’s part of how I got inspiration for most of my work.
But here are a few advices from my side, mostly I breed fancy birds as a hobby but I do get a decent income from it. My actual work is that I am a businessman. But I’m also a veterinarian. And my main advice regarding vets is that 90% of them aren’t a reliable source most are outright incompetent. Especially new graduates who have no experience or passion for the job. When it comes to vets your best bet are class specialists an avian veterinarian for this particular subject. And one with a wide range of experience.
As for information online much of what you get on google is reliable. But THE BEST bet aren’t avian specialist vets. It’s actually the breeders. Breeders know and have seen things you wouldn’t believe until you’ve seen for yourself. When it comes to methods of disease prevention, poultry behaviour etc... they’re the best source especially those with at least a decade of experience the longer the time, the larger the amount of birds they rear and the more diverse their flocks the more reliable the person gets. Experience always beats mere knowledge in this regard. But a breeder with medical expertise is even more reliable. Colleges are honestly a joke, and believe me no real veterinarian prodigy would work for colleges. The real prodigies don’t work for the government at least not back here.
As for the information you mentioned regarding the dosages. The best way to be certain is to try both and see for yourself. Of course if the information on google says a certain thing is bad like toxic at certain levels it’s best to keep it in mind. But at the same time these infos aren’t 100% accurate. For instance according to google onions are toxic to chickens. At least back in 2014 but after testing it myself along with a number of others in the poultry field. It turns out that it’s actually not as toxic as the search engine on google often suggested back then. Turns out that it’s not only edible to chickens but also boosts the Feed conversion ratio and immune system of chickens. Of course onions are still toxic, but as an adult healthy human your chances to likely die from poisoning after eating 3 whole apples with the seeds every day for a few months, are the same as those of feeding 10 grams of unheated onion to your chicken 3 times a week which are possible, but the chances are so low it’s barely been mentioned. You can actually search up for the statistics and you’ll hardly find any results online. Unless they published it recently. That is because most of the claims are theoretical and have not been put to test.
You see in order to be certain of something and be academic about it. You’ll need at least 100 healthy test subjects. And begin your own research if google doesn’t provide any reliable answers to your questions. Besides information from vet colleges are usually unreliable especially information regarding poultry because those ... plebs only work on commercial breeds (usually Cornish or Rhode Island Red) and often their research is riddled with flaws and gaps. And frankly I don’t blame them for all of it. Accurate Research costs both a great deal of space time and money. And many colleges aren’t able to afford it.

 

[Eggcessive]

@Moose Antler how is your chicken doing? Did you cull or treat the wry neck with vitamins?

 

[Moose Antler]

@Moose Antler how is your chicken doing? Did you cull or treat the wry neck with vitamins?

Neither. Was suspicious of head trauma. She's been getting a bit better day by day. Thanks for asking!