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Louie, did something get to them? Like a dog?
No, luckily
My hen used to have a bad limp when she was about four or five months and I had to go to the coop every day and hold her by the food and keep away the others, then the same with the water because she could barely even hop there. It got completely better, but now she is limping again! She's very shy and doesn't let me pick her up, so I just sat down in the coop and let her make her own way over to me. I did't pick her up, but I did see that her right foot was swollen
So, now I'm just really hoping that it's not bumblefoot. My Uncle is more experienced with chickens than I (I know more, he does more
) so when he gets home from work today I'm going to have him go with me to the coop and pick her up and look on the bottom of her foot to see if there's any scab (bumblefoot). If there's not and her limping is possibly because of too much wait being put on her from all the rooster (over-mating and such) then I'll have to put her and my one other hen in my dog's old kennel. (I'd put my other hen in there too so that she wouldn't be left alone with all five roos.)
As for my bleeding rooster, I know that no predator did this because their coop didn't have anything wrong with it and if something wanted to get in there they'd have to try really hard! He may be bleeding because of his fighting with the other roosters, but I have never seen then even think about fighting with each other at all, even though they've already started to mount and crow. But, if fighting is the case then I just have to say sorry to him for now. I'm planning on selling him and two other roos ASAP, leaving me with only two: one for show (I hope), one for breeding. At first I wondered if it may be frostbite? but then someone told me that frostbite will usually STOP them from bleeding.
Hmmmm...
Frostbite would leave a sort of blackish purple mark on the comb. It could be from fighting...it takes just one nip/peck to leave the comb bloody. I have a few roos together, they had to reacclimate themselves to each other...though they don't fight, they did initiate the pecking order and one ended up with a bloody comb. Hope your birds are okay.
Louie, did something get to them? Like a dog?
No, luckily
As for my bleeding rooster, I know that no predator did this because their coop didn't have anything wrong with it and if something wanted to get in there they'd have to try really hard! He may be bleeding because of his fighting with the other roosters, but I have never seen then even think about fighting with each other at all, even though they've already started to mount and crow. But, if fighting is the case then I just have to say sorry to him for now. I'm planning on selling him and two other roos ASAP, leaving me with only two: one for show (I hope), one for breeding. At first I wondered if it may be frostbite? but then someone told me that frostbite will usually STOP them from bleeding.
Hmmmm...
Frostbite would leave a sort of blackish purple mark on the comb. It could be from fighting...it takes just one nip/peck to leave the comb bloody. I have a few roos together, they had to reacclimate themselves to each other...though they don't fight, they did initiate the pecking order and one ended up with a bloody comb. Hope your birds are okay.
