Help! Sick yo Jersey giant hen

[Bsmac]

Ground whole grain feed. I usually add probiotic vitamin water every other day. I will get these vitamins and administer them. Does the analysis look good to you? Thanks so much!

 

[Bsmac]

I want to get it right, 1/3 of a b complex and a whole vit. E 400 i.u.

 

[Bsmac]

Thanks, is this a whole grain feed or a pellet?
You can treat wry neck with vitamin therapy, get b complex tablets and vitamin e 400 i.u caps, give a third of a tablet and a whole cap every day for a few weeks. any brand from the grocery store.
You can also add chicken vitamins to their water.

Many thanks! I woudn`t have given her much of a chance at survival earlier today. I gave her the vitamins and gave her some rooster booster via a syringe. She is now eating and looking a bit better! Much appreciated!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I thought I saw very slight head tremors. This morning the tremors seemed a bit worse. She came out of the coup this am very slowly then flew off halfway down the ramp, then fell over. She looks very unwell. I checked her crop it was empty. I also checked for egg binding seemed fine. Looked her all over seemed ok. I do know some of them have tape worms was getting ready to treat with zimectrin gold.

She now has wrye neck part of the time and somewhat normal the rest of the time. She is weak and very wobbly. I haven`t been able to get her to eat or drink yet. Thinking about giving her either some nutri drench or probiotic vitamin water with a syringe.

Many thanks! I woudn`t have given her much of a chance at survival earlier today. I gave her the vitamins and gave her some rooster booster via a syringe. She is now eating and looking a bit better! Much appreciated!

That was fast!

Sounds like she may have been dehydrated. I would continue to work on hydration, getting the vitamins into her, then offer wet mushy feed.

 

[Bsmac]

I thought so too! I could not believe the improvement so quickly! That`s exactly what i`m doing, making sure she is drinking and eating well. She is still a bit wonky but, I have not witnessed a wry neck episode since the vitamins were given. Thank goodness! I was amazed at how much she ate after I gave her the vitamins. I am going to keep her isolated in my chick area in my covered run until she recovers (hopefully). I generally give my birds mushy feed in the am and late pm. They seem to eat better. I also have free choice dry feed they can eat anytime. Is that a good practice? Thanks so much for your advice!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I thought so too! I could not believe the improvement so quickly! That`s exactly what i`m doing, making sure she is drinking and eating well. She is still a bit wonky but, I have not witnessed a wry neck episode since the vitamins were given. Thank goodness! I was amazed at how much she ate after I gave her the vitamins. I am going to keep her isolated in my chick area in my covered run until she recovers (hopefully). I generally give my birds mushy feed in the am and late pm. They seem to eat better. I also have free choice dry feed they can eat anytime. Is that a good practice? Thanks so much for your advice!

Yes, I think it's o.k. to have feed available free choice.

I'm glad she's improved.