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It was a good auction. Lots of chickens including special breeds and bantams, ducks and muscovy ducklings, pigeons, guinea fowl, turkeys, geese, rabbits and even a guinea pig!

Not non-stop. Very frequently. Maybe every few seconds. There are times when he stops for a while, such as when he is eating or drinking, or if I am holding and petting him. When asleep he doesn't shake his head.

That's an interesting thought! I never considered it might be a display behavior.

I'll see if I can take a little video with my phone.

Thanks for the replies. It helps. I don't see the behavior in my bantam roosters, which have small non-floppy combs. But this rooster is a standard size with a big Mediterranean breed comb, and I thought maybe it was like those people with a lot of hair who are always tossing their heads to get...

I have a 2.5 year old rooster with a comb that is so large that I had to remove a third of it because it was sitting on his eye. He was shaking his head all the time, and I thought that getting that piece of comb off his eye would put an end to that. That was a couple of years ago, and even...

Thanks. I have syringe fed chickens before, and yes, I have seen that great thread. It's a BYC classic! So far he is sleeping normally after drinking a lot of the electrolyte-vitamin-molasses-yogurt water, so will just have to wait till the morning and check.

He didn't eat, today. Just is drinking a lot. I put a mix of vitamin/electrolyte powder for poultry, plain yogurt and a little blackstrap molasses in his water so he would get some nutrition, but he did not poop today. Just a little while urate. I retreated him with ivermectin this evening. Now...

That occurred to me, but I first treated with Ivermectin, which should have gotten the worms along with the mites. Maybe I underdosed. Am going to try again. I examined his droppings after the Ivermectin, and didn't find any sign of worms. He isn't too lethargic to eat, he is just not eating...

My two-year-old cream legbar rooster suddenly went pail in the comb and wattles. Checking him, I found he was infested with mites, and began treating him with Ivermectin. A week later, the mites were still persistant, so I began using a spray-on permethrin treatment. The mites seem to be under...

I caught mite-caused anemia in two roos, and dosed them with Ivermectin, then alternated that with spraying with permethrin. The mites are gone, but am still reversing the anemia. I have been feeding the roos a mix of brown rice, banana, plain yogurt and blackstrap molasses. One roo is back to...

Digging up this old post to announce this year's FFA fundraising auction. It's on Sunday, October 20 at noon at the Topsfield Fairgrounds Poultry Barn. Rte 1, Topsfield, MA. Same rules apply as above. The FFA kids receive 25% of each winning bid/sale to fund their trip to the annual FFA...

You can use wood ash to pack the wound, or even flour. Anything powdery that sops up fluid. You can also use antibiotic ointment, which is gooey and will "plug the leak." The yellow material sounds like pus, signs of infection. Get some triple-antibiotic ointment, or if you can't find that...

That's good to hear! Thanks for letting us know.

If the bleeding has stopped, and the roo is eating and drinking, I wouldn't worry. Keep applying the neosporin for another day or two. The gooey-ness will help prevent or slow down any residual bleeding. You can also dust the wounded area with wood ash (from a woodstove or fireplace) if there is...