You can add foods high in selenium to their diet to keep from having a recurrence or if you know they are prone to wry neck. Lightly massage the neck muscles for a few minutes each time as mentioned above. The treatment is the same for adult chickens with wry neck except you'll give them the whole capsule dripped into their mouth 3 times a day. Treatment for adult chickens with wry neck Success! This treatment also works in adult chickens with wry neck. Another 2 weeks and you could barely tell she had wry neck at all. It probably took about a week to tell she was getting better though. The chick quit getting worse as soon as I started treatment. I also lightly massaged the muscles of her neck focusing more on the side that seemed cramped, not the stretched side. I bought the Vitamin E with selenium capsules and pierced them open with a pin, squeezing a few drops into her mouth each time. Genetics! Sure enough once I moved her mama hen to the grow out penĪnd ran through the current incubation cycle, the wry neck chicks The next one clicked the light bulb on in my The first time it happened I just accepted it as a Now, let's get back to my chicks getting wry neck. More on that a little further down the article. It's certainly not a cut and dried answer, but it's the only one there is! It should also be mentioned that I have also dealt with wry neck in adult chickens, not just young chicks. I've also found (as with the chick in the picture) that if a chick outgrows wry neck, their offspring are more likely to get it. However, I have fixed it with supplements. Yes, my Silkie chicks got it more than any other breed I have. I've found that it's often a combination of these factors. Some say it's strictly a vitamin deficiency, other say its certain breeds ( Silkies and Polish) and then there is also a genetic link. There are several different beliefs on why chicks get wry neck. Some time the chick's neck twists up so it looks like their looking at the sky, others are backwards and still others are sideways like the little guy in the picture above. It's also called crook neck, twisted neck or stargazing. Wry neck is a condition where the chickens neck is twisted.
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