Recent content by RatCatRooster

A few years late with this response - but I figured that if someone else had a similar question, my experience might help. I have loads of roosters, as well as three drakes. We rescued a 1 year old Kelpie who had been given no training whatsoever, and was a flying ball of chaos when we got...

Hiya- thanks for your reply. Yeah, the little guy at the top was definitely moulting when I took the picture, but those bald red heads have persisted. Particularly the guy in the second pic - the sort of raised appearance of the face skin, it just looks strange to me. We have a fancy pekin we...

Hi Everyone! Sorry to be a constant question asker & not much of a question answerer. About 9 months ago, I took in seven little bantam roosters. On arrival, I noticed a few of them in particular had strange bald heads with the skin appearing scarred or deformed. They all seem fine, happy...

Hi Everyone! I'm interested to hear how everyone's "ear-wax" roosters went, health-wise. I just found the same thing with one of our roosters. He had both ears entirely plugged up with foul smelling goop & hard wax (I think). I carefully cleared them out (which he enjoyed - I tried to wrap...

Hey! Thanks for your reply. The funny thing is, the boy with the sore leg is waay smaller (weight wise) than his brother, who is having no joint issues whatsoever. I guess he's the lucky one who'll just drop dead from a heart problem without warning. The boy with the sore leg is really just...

Hi everyone! Calling on your wisdom once again. We have a broiler rooster who has hurt his leg jumping down from our outdoor table (ahem) and also running around doing usual silly rooster things. We've had him in a (very) small pen to rest his leg and it is improving - however - once he's...

Thanks Tricoglossus - I thought they must have game in them. They almost fit the bill, but just not quite. They're gorgeous birds and so talkative, always telling me off or telling everyone about the food they've found. Love 'em! :-)

Hi everyone! We adopted a couple of roosters a while back, and I'm just really curious about what breed they are. They were found wandering the streets of industrial Western Sydney (Australia) and brought down to our sanctuary. They are smaller than a normal rooster, but way bigger than...

I just thought I'd put up an update to this thread - Big Boy is still with us! His condition hasn't declined at all, he still wheezes when he gets worked up and tires out easily (when trying to attack me, haha) but other than that, he's a happy bird, he's got his full adult tail feathers and...

Yes definitely - I'll update with any new information, esp. autopsy results if & when we do lose him. His voice seems to be coming back slightly, so that's an interesting development. We'll see how he goes! :-)

He is massive! Very cute though, in a pecky / scary kind of way. Good point about Big Boy surviving for so much longer than the other rooster - the other one (Garuda) was a strapping alpha bird, he was absolutely gorgeous and healthy, so it's so weird that he went down so fast, and clumsy...

Hi! Thanks so much for your response. I was thinking the same thing - about him being a broiler. The lady said the person who sold him to her as a chick said he was Sussex crossed with something else, but she had her doubts. Here's a picture of him when he was skinny. He's now much, much...

Hi everyone, I'm new here - 'long time listener first time caller' so to speak. I've been looking at the forum for years. In January, I started rescuing unwanted roosters. One of the birds was carrying an illness on his arrival. I will describe the history symptoms: The rooster was 5...