wry neck and silkie chickens

I'm writing this blog in hopes to help others who have a silkie chicken with wry neck.first I'm here to tell you there is hope! Silkies are more succeptable to wry neck for a few reasons.first understand wry neck itself is not a disease but a symptom. It can be caused from nutrional defiency injury or hereditary. Silkies are more prone to the wry neck because of there skulls having a hole where the brain can get damaged if pecked just right.they also Ned more vitamins making them succeptable to the nutritional cause.I have a flock of all silkies and I'd known they can be more succeptable so I was giving a vitamin supplement to my flock. To my surprise two of my birds came down with wry neck in a matter of a month. How could this be I thought. well I wasn't giving the right supplements! They needed more than the B supplement I was giving. Both my birds had severe wry neck.my first case Milly couldn't walk forward and had her head between her legs and would drag he head and she actually did back flips! My second birds started with a seizure in the head. the best way to describe it is like a Parkinson's patient.then she could no longer walk. Her neck began to tuck to her chin. Both birds manifested wry neck differently.neither bird could eat or drink without my help.let me say treating wry neck takes patience but the result is well worth it in the end.I treated both birds with the same treatment.I used 3 vitamin E capsules in there food (they could eat with my help) I used a very small amount of selenium over the food too because selenium helps them process the E. Too much is toxic so use a very small amount crushed over the food. then I used liquid children's vitamin polyvisol without iron mixed into the food also.most people stop here for treatment but I went farther.I also added supplements A D E and B to their drinking water which I will continue doing to prevent this in the future.the last step was adding predinsone pills.I'm following Alan Stanford's treatment for wry neck. I used one milligram in the am and one in the pm making two milligrams a day. Why use predinsone you ask? Because with wry neck birds they have found during neuroscropsy that the one thing they found wrong with a wry neck bird was brain swelling! This is what causes the symptoms. This swelling must be taken down so the bird can become normal again.the predinsone does just that. Of course you can't just stop predinsone. they must be weened off.predinsone is a steroid. The brain swelling is taken down by the predinsone. Both my birds recovered 100% and suffered no bad effects from treatment. Both birds recovered rather fast.each bird took about three weeks before they were 100%. I'm here to tell you this treatment really works well! Have patience you will begin to see small improvements by the end of week two. some take longer.but with some effort on your part your bird can return to normal.as discouraging as it may seem looking at your bird this way do not give up! you can save the bird with this treatment!I am greatful to God I found this treatment! It worked wonderfully on both my silkies and will work for any bird for that matter.I often hear of people culling wet neck birds and it makes me cringe because you would never even know my birds had wry neck they heal 100% back to normal. So when I hear of some one culling for it that makes me very sad. with a little caste and treatment the bird could have been healed.I just wanted to share this to try and help some one dealing with wryneck. don't give up Hope! Its possible to heal your birds with this treatment! Don't give up hope and have patience.it won't happen over night but healing will happen! Thanks for reading my story! I really hope this helps and gives inspiration to those dealing with wryneck symptoms. God bless.