Ok, time to feed him some bacon. Yummy fatty bacon. He might be just burning up heaps of calories fighting the infection. I know when I got sick with a bad virus I lost about 7 kilos in two weeks. It's the only time I could eat cake and hot chips with a clear conscience!
So glad to hear...
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I am so happy to hear that he is feeling better!
Haha! Good ol' Petey, back to being obnoxious! Congratulations, so glad to hear he's on the mend.
Yes, he absolutely has a secondary infection. After a severe trauma a chicken will often get a disease - for example, the rooster in the link I sent you developed fowl pox shortly after being thrashed. Petey sounds really really sick. I would get some Tylan.
Also, you must gently squeeze...
Hi! This is an amazing thread on the Andy Vardy Backyard Poultry site about caring for a rooster that had been thrashed (by another rooster in this case). His eyes were REALLY bad, but turns out there was still an eyeball in them:
http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8004609...