Pebbles25
In the Brooder
- Sep 13, 2025
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Hi,
I have an almost 5 month old black copper maran cockerel, he is the newest edition to the flock so gets a bit picked on still. I got him just over a month ago. The other day we found him choking on a large strand of silicone my family member who found him managed to pull it all out and he seemed fine. On Thursday I found him covered in mucas so I got him inside. His throat was really swollen as well. Later on tursday the mucas had cleared and he wanted to eat and was talking and so much more energetic. Yesterday I felt his crop and it was very squishy but didn’t feel like a balloon and he had no foul smelling breath. Usually I can feel the pellets in their crops so I sort of followed instructions for treating sour crop. I’m going to put him outside tonight so the others don’t forget him. I’m just trying to work out if the mucas was stress or he as a crop problem. I don’t think he got impacted crop (my other cockerel had it a week ago and he was doing throwing up movements so I knew something was up.)
Whenever I look online about mucas it says it might be a respiratory infection, but he seems better now. He doesn’t have a swollen face or foamy eyes. Poop looks normalish. Some looks very brown and. Ore watery and smelly.
I have an almost 5 month old black copper maran cockerel, he is the newest edition to the flock so gets a bit picked on still. I got him just over a month ago. The other day we found him choking on a large strand of silicone my family member who found him managed to pull it all out and he seemed fine. On Thursday I found him covered in mucas so I got him inside. His throat was really swollen as well. Later on tursday the mucas had cleared and he wanted to eat and was talking and so much more energetic. Yesterday I felt his crop and it was very squishy but didn’t feel like a balloon and he had no foul smelling breath. Usually I can feel the pellets in their crops so I sort of followed instructions for treating sour crop. I’m going to put him outside tonight so the others don’t forget him. I’m just trying to work out if the mucas was stress or he as a crop problem. I don’t think he got impacted crop (my other cockerel had it a week ago and he was doing throwing up movements so I knew something was up.)
Whenever I look online about mucas it says it might be a respiratory infection, but he seems better now. He doesn’t have a swollen face or foamy eyes. Poop looks normalish. Some looks very brown and. Ore watery and smelly.
