Wry Neck!??????

[EmAbTo48]

So one of my chickens born januray has what looks like wry neck but has pure white unformed liguidy poop. I am wondering if its not wry neck and something else causing what looks like wry neck??

I have treated it with duramycin all today and he has seemed to perk up he can stand and reach slowly down to eat mushed up feed. ( I have given it wet chick starter thinking since its got a bunch of vitamins in it, it might be better then what the rest eat which is a mixfrom the feed store)

I have been going down and and checking on him every 2 hours and making sure he's getting a bit of water/antibotic in his system... he's in our barn in our room where we have a office on hay in a water tank by himself.

I am unsure what this could be! None of the rest of the 23 chickens have shown signs of being ill this one has for a week now just laying around but would get up run away when you came to close etc.


If it is wry neck anything I could feed him till I can get to the store for vitamin/electrolytes tomorrow?????


His neck is surely bent and swollen he's fighting for sure and seems to be responding to the duramycin. So I am going to keep that up for a week and add vitamin capsules? If I can find them!

Last question could this be genetic this is our only chick we allowed hatch from our mixed flock this year?

Thanks for any advice!

 

[ChicKat]

Hope that your chicken is better.

Here is a BYC post about wry neck. There may be others of interest to you if you type wry neck in the search bar at the top of the page.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/662860/wry-neck

I just read this post and thought that it could be something for you to consider:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/670408/gastro-intestinal-virus#post_9050210

I am not familiar at all with wry neck, but my dh said that his grandmother's chickens got it from eating something spoiled that contained maggots. I doubt that it was the maggots but maybe some bacteria on the spoiled stuff his granny's chickens ate.

 

[EmAbTo48]

Thanks! I am going to read this. He is doing 100% better today. No more neck twisting at all. His neck is still bent funny but he can now stand and not just fall over...He had a solid poop. I gave him some hard boiled eggs yesterday he ate those up nicely. He still seems a little uncoordinated but doing better on one day of the antibotic. So praying he will pull through!

Still going to get some viatimins and electrolytes...