I have a small group of 5 week old Lemon Cuckoo Orps, last night one of the chicks I believe to be a cockerel (already has a larger pink comb) started screeching loudly, flapping, and circling the growout pen frantically. The other chicks seemed so freaked out they were all huddled in one corner trying to get away from him. It was like he all of a sudden went into a frenzy and was having some kind of fit or something. I heard the noise and ran outside, thinking maybe a snake got into their pen, maybe he had been stung by a bee, bitten by an ant, who knows...I couldn't find anything in the pen, checked him all over for signs of ant bites and didn't find anything obvious. I kept him separated from the others for the night and this morning he seemed fine, eating drinking, etc. so I put him back into his pen. Everything seemed normal until about an hour ago he had another 'episode'. In between episodes he's still eating/drinking/pooping normally, no others signs of illness, nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever with the exception of these weird spells he has. I have no idea what is causing this other than that maybe he has some kind of defect in his brain! Is this an illness? All of my other birds are completely healthy, and this bird also seems completely healthy otherwise...
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