Chicken tilting head all the way back and rolling it side to side, loss of balance

[YukitaCynder]

Today she

Welcome To BYC

Can you please post some photos of the chick?
How old is the chick?

It would likely be a good idea to separate out the chick to give her specialized care.
Give her 400IU vitamin E daily along with 1/4 tablet B-Complex and a bit of scrambled egg.
The egg has sufficient Selenium - I would not add any more powder to the feed.

Today she turned 6 days old. When I started giving her the original mixture she ate it happily. After about two days she refused to eat it but ate the regular feed with gusto. The other chicks have been nice to her thank goodness. Just yesterday it seems the condition has stopped all together. I’ll keep a very close eye on her to make sure it doesn’t hit her again but all seems well.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Today she

Today she turned 6 days old. When I started giving her the original mixture she ate it happily. After about two days she refused to eat it but ate the regular feed with gusto. The other chicks have been nice to her thank goodness. Just yesterday it seems the condition has stopped all together. I’ll keep a very close eye on her to make sure it doesn’t hit her again but all seems well.
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Glad to hear she is doing better! Thank you for the update

 

[MaxineC]

It took a little over 3 months, I used supplements at first then tapered off to water soluble nutrients.

How did you get supplements in her? My hen started having the same issue and she’s not wanting to take what I give her. Did you have to isolate?

 

[NodakTwoBravo]

How did you get supplements in her? My hen started having the same issue and she’s not wanting to take what I give her. Did you have to isolate?

Sorry for the late reply, I used an eye dropper with her beak held open, a few drops at a time. I did isolate this hen.

 

[Jessamy0511]

Hello all,

My parents have a backyard chicken coop with 8 chickens. 3 days ago, I noticed one speckled sussex not in the henhouse with the others. I picked her up and placed her on her stick with the other chickens in her normal spot, because the weather at night has been between 10 and 20 degrees F at night. The next night when I went to close their door(they roam the backyard during the day), I noticed the same sussex on the ground of the coop at night. She seemed disoriented, and was doing the head waggle thing. I again placed her in the coop on the stick. Last night, the same chicken was on the ground, and could not balance on any sticks. She pins her neck to her back, looking straight up, and waves her head from side to side, and loses her balance and falls backwards off the stick, in a back-flip motion. If she is on the ground, she sits down completely, no weight on the legs, all sitting, and pins her neck back and does the head waving. see video.

The bird in particular is an 8 month old speckled sussex that weighs 5 pounds. This is the only bird in the flock exhibiting this behavior. There is no bleeding or broken bones that i have seen. This just sprung up 3 days ago, normal behavior, until this. She will snap out of it occasionally to take a drink and eat some food. Also, when she is scratching with her friend, she does not go into this behavior. It seems to come on as soon as the birds get ready to bed down for the night. The feed is nutrina country feeds egg producer. Poops look normal. I have separated her from the flock with one of her friends for the time being. I hope to be able to remedy the chicken. The vet said she had never seen a chicken do this, and it might be wise to put it down. Has anyone seen this? Attached are pictures of the coop, and a video of the chicken exhibiting this behavior at the vets.

I'm just curious how your chicken turned out I have a chicken about 6-8 months old (got her at a flea market) she does this and more she flips backward out of no where she can walk tho good until she takes a bad spell it comes and goes tho all day at night is really easier for her but she sleeps with blankets and pillows to keep her safe so she don't hurt herself. When she's is having a bad spell she can't seem to control herself at all she looses balance alot and walks in circles sometimes but she eats good drinks water tries to play when she can and overall seems happy she is spoiled tho I treat her like a baby and she has lived so far I really don't wanna put it down it don't act like it's in pain I mean she gets mad when she can't do something but she don't seem to b in pain

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm just curious how your chicken turned out I have a chicken about 6-8 months old (got her at a flea market) she does this and more she flips backward out of no where she can walk tho good until she takes a bad spell it comes and goes tho all day at night is really easier for her but she sleeps with blankets and pillows to keep her safe so she don't hurt herself. When she's is having a bad spell she can't seem to control herself at all she looses balance alot and walks in circles sometimes but she eats good drinks water tries to play when she can and overall seems happy she is spoiled tho I treat her like a baby and she has lived so far I really don't wanna put it down it don't act like it's in pain I mean she gets mad when she can't do something but she don't seem to b in pain

Hi @Jessamy0511 Welcome To BYC
The posts you are quoting is from 2018 so the poster may not be active anymore. I see you have a thread asking for help with your pullet. The link for that thread is below.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help-please-whats-wrong-with-my-chicken.1607032/