Despite maximum effort including calls to numerous vets, electrolytes, antibiotics, consultation with 2 poultry forums, and a 1am run to Walgreens for yogurt and vitamin B, Chester the rooster lost the fight this morning.
Thanks for all the help which I'll pass on to anyone in need.
Rex
1. Feeding cracked corn, commercial poultry feed, wild black berries, misc. tall grasses, occasionally bits of bread, he also finds clover, dandelions, misc. around the yard.
2.Probiotic wet mash? Dry Crumbles? ACV? No idea what any of those are.
3. No bad smell present.
He doesn't seem to be...
3 months ago a banty Barred Rock rooster showed up at my house, followed me around wherever I went. Got food, cracked corn, built a cage. I let him out every day to peck at the yard, but he would rather sit on my lap, or whatever I was trying to read or work on.
3 days ago he stopped crowing...