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Me too. I would love to know if there's some way to identify it but we really have no idea what we could do.

I'll give it a try next time we clean the wound.

I thought the same thing when it was inside him, but now that we've removed it I'm not entirely sure. It seems too long, and weird shaped at the darker end? I honestly have no idea. See page 5 for the updated images of the object once we'd removed it.

Here' is a close-up of the part that was inside him. I don't know what those white dots on it are, and it looks like there's a groove down the centre. Maybe it is a deformed feather? It looks a bit like the hollow part of a quill pen, so wondering if that's the hollow part on the inside of the...

Here he is, weird object free and seems happy.

Update: So we had yet another feel of the thing. When we were inspecting it we could feel that there was some give in it, and once it came out a tiny bit we could feel the end of it inside him. Definitely NOT attached. We decided to remove it. It came out fairly easily, and the roo was calm the...

So we've had a better feel of the thing, and it's in quite deep and feels like it's attached somewhere in there. Maybe it's not attached and just feels that way because of how deep it is, but we're not comfortable pulling it out. We did gently try pulling on it very slightly just to see if it...

Yep, before we do anything like attempting to pull it out I'll do some research and make sure we have the right things on hand, something to stop bleeding, something to wash the wound to prevent infection, etc. Since it's not causing him any issues or pain I don't think we need to rush into...

Thanks for your replies so far. When we get a chance later today or tomorrow I'll try and see just how far it's stuck into him, whether it's just in the skin or in the muscle as well. From there we can see whether we think it's safe to pull out or not.

It doesn't seem to cause him any pain at all, which is why we're so confused. We've had him a week and only noticed it this morning. He's been wandering around for at least a few months, we see him randomly in our yard, the neighbours yard, the empty lot/bush behind us. We decided to catch him...

Oh, yeah they definitely have quills, but I'm not sure if they're barbed on the end like porcupines are. I mean I could be completely wrong, but they look like they'd stick in and then fall out rather than attach. Plus the quills are very round, but this thing is flat at the end. I'm leaning...

I added some more pics to the original post. Hoping those are clearer. It's sort of at the base of his neck. We thought it might be a wing bone, but you can see in the last pic that it's a bit further up than his wing. The thing is very hard, and feels quite sharp. To us it looks like a broken...

That was one of my first throughs too, but I couldn't think of what could have "stuck" him. We live in Tasmania, Australia, so we don't have porcupines here. The closest thing would be an echidna (which we do have in the area, and we have a fair amount of bush around our house), but I don't...

We've tried manipulating it a bit, and it definitely feels like it's attached to him, but we could be wrong. It can be moved around, but still feels attached at the end. At first we thought it was some sort of weird, hard feather, but it seems way too big/hard for that?

We recently rescued a stray rooster and have been looking after him. Today we noticed that there's a bone sticking out of the back of his neck, near where the wing joins the body. He doesn't seem to be in any visible pain or showing any other symptoms, and there's no blood or signs of infection...