Cockerel limping!

[PlymouthRockBBredSebright]

Give him the aspirin and apply some triple antibotic or neosporin to the area i circled in the picture

 

[poultry person]

Give him the aspirin and apply some triple antibotic or neosporin to the area i circled in the picture
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Thank you, I didn't notice that!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

My cockerel is limping and I took a look at it but he doesn't seem to have any injuries. Anyone have idea what might be wrong? It started yesterday he just keeps bouncing around it's so sad!

Do you have a video of him?
What exactly do you mean by - he just keeps bouncing around?
How old is he?
Is he able to get to food/water?

There are so many possibilities of why he could be limping - anything from sprain/injury to something more serious like Marek's.

Try limiting his activity for a couple of days. Cage or kennel him within the coop or run. Provide him with poultry vitamins that have B2(Riboflavin) and extra protein like egg, tuna or meat. Keep him hydrated. You can also soak his legs in a warm epsom salts bath to see if that gives him any relief.

 

[PlymouthRockBBredSebright]

Thank you, I didn't notice that!

Your welcome!

 

[PlymouthRockBBredSebright]

• Classical Marek's disease or neurolymphomatosis causes asymmetric paralysis of one or more limbs. With vagus nerve involvement, difficulty breathing or dilation of the crop may occur. Besides lesions in the peripheral nerves, there are frequently lymphomatous infiltration/tumours in the skin, skeletal muscle, visceral organs. Organs that are commonly affected include the ovary, spleen, liver, kidneys, lungs, heart, proventriculus and adrenals.
• Acute Marek's disease is an epidemic in a previously uninfected or unvaccinated flock, causing depression, paralysis, and death in a large number of birds (up to 80%). The age of onset is much earlier than the classic form; birds are four to eight weeks old when affected. Infiltration into multiple organs/tissue is observed.
• Ocular lymphomatosis causes lymphocyte infiltration of the iris (making the iris turn grey), unequal size of the pupils, and blindness.
• Cutaneous Marek's disease causes round, firm lesions at the feather follicles.[3 Atherosclerosis is induced in experimentally infected chickens.[4]
• Immunosuppression – Impairment of the T-lymphocytes prevents competent immunological response against pathogenic challenge and the affected birds become more susceptible to disease conditions such as coccidiosis and Escherichia coli infection .[5] Furthermore, without stimulation by cell-mediated immunity, the humoral immunity conferred by the B-cell lines from the Bursa of Fabricius also shuts down, thus resulting in birds that are totally immunocompromised.

None of these point towards your rooster, so I wouldn't worry about Marek's

 

[poultry person]

• Classical Marek's disease or neurolymphomatosis causes asymmetric paralysis of one or more limbs. With vagus nerve involvement, difficulty breathing or dilation of the crop may occur. Besides lesions in the peripheral nerves, there are frequently lymphomatous infiltration/tumours in the skin, skeletal muscle, visceral organs. Organs that are commonly affected include the ovary, spleen, liver, kidneys, lungs, heart, proventriculus and adrenals.
• Acute Marek's disease is an epidemic in a previously uninfected or unvaccinated flock, causing depression, paralysis, and death in a large number of birds (up to 80%). The age of onset is much earlier than the classic form; birds are four to eight weeks old when affected. Infiltration into multiple organs/tissue is observed.
• Ocular lymphomatosis causes lymphocyte infiltration of the iris (making the iris turn grey), unequal size of the pupils, and blindness.
• Cutaneous Marek's disease causes round, firm lesions at the feather follicles.[3 Atherosclerosis is induced in experimentally infected chickens.[4]
• Immunosuppression – Impairment of the T-lymphocytes prevents competent immunological response against pathogenic challenge and the affected birds become more susceptible to disease conditions such as coccidiosis and Escherichia coli infection .[5] Furthermore, without stimulation by cell-mediated immunity, the humoral immunity conferred by the B-cell lines from the Bursa of Fabricius also shuts down, thus resulting in birds that are totally immunocompromised.

None of these point towards your rooster, so I wouldn't worry about Marek's

 

[PlymouthRockBBredSebright]

How is he doing?

 

[rebrascora]

None of these point towards your rooster, so I wouldn't worry about Marek's

What exactly makes you so sure that Marek's can be ruled out so easily. In my experience, it is the No.1 cause of lameness in adolescent birds and an extremely widespread and easily contracted virus. Certainly significantly more common than a stroke.

 

[PlymouthRockBBredSebright]

Hey! How is he doing? Did the aspirin do anything??

 

[poultry person]

We're giving him aspirin, but he's staying in the coop all day just sitting on the roost.