Hi all, I have followed a few threads on this topic... my wonderful black orpington rooster has gone suddenly lame over 3 days mainly in the right leg; he spends more time sensibly sitting down on a roost to take the weight off. Seems otherwise OK, eating, drinking, managing to give the others...
I'm not sure if it's breeding injuries but both my Marans roos are mildly lame, some days worse than others. At first I thought that a couple of the feather shafts in one of the toes of Mukluk (roo #1) was causing him to gimp around, now I'm not so sure that's it. He walks like he had chinese...