Cornish Rocks Cannibalism

[Parront]

Yea I'll have to get me one of those to pour it into if I use the paper bag kind. I have been wanting to get a few of those trash cans
anyway.

I haven't looked at Ideal hatchery, but I'll look into it. Thank you!

I had to keep the cans of feed up on pallets and spray ant spray underneath, in the desert in Calif.

 

[Fairview01]

I checked on the bloody butt one today. He is perfectly fine. It is all healed over and acts like there is nothing wrong with him. It was only the area around the vent and tail feathers, and it looks a lot better now that it isn't a bloody mess.

I forgot to check if it was a hen or a rooster, but I'll just wait to cull him when I butcher the others.

When I have that butt picking going on when I first see it I'll chick and give a good spray of blue coat on the area. (For the label readers and orthodox rule bound, yes I'm aware blue coat isn't labeled for chickens. And I don't care.) I then give the area a generous coat of pine tar. Stops the peckers cold I suppose because it tastes nasty and protects against fly bites. I personally thinks it makes them smell better. It also makes them ugly because as they preen they spread the pine tar all over themselves and being sticky it has a tendency to pick up dust and dirt. They become dirty birds so to speak

 

[Perry17]

When I have that butt picking going on when I first see it I'll chick and give a good spray of blue coat on the area. (For the label readers and orthodox rule bound, yes I'm aware blue coat isn't labeled for chickens. And I don't care.) I then give the area a generous coat of pine tar. Stops the peckers cold I suppose because it tastes nasty and protects against fly bites. I personally thinks it makes them smell better. It also makes them ugly because as they preen they spread the pine tar all over themselves and being sticky it has a tendency to pick up dust and dirt. They become dirty birds so to speak

Yea I love the stuff! Haha I have used it on my white holland turkey when a bobcat tried to eat her alive. It worked wonders and I got her all healed up in a few weeks.

I was worried they wouldn't leave him alone once it started bleeding. But it has already scabbed over and doesn't look bad at all. If I didn't see it yesterday I wouldn't even know he was hurt. I'm just scared of him getting an infection, then eating an infected bird? Since they have left him alone, and he is acting normal, I'm not going to try to fix it or anything. I'll just wait to cull with the rest. Hopefully Monday.

 

[Parront]

Yea I love the stuff! Haha I have used it on my white holland turkey when a bobcat tried to eat her alive. It worked wonders and I got her all healed up in a few weeks.

I was worried they wouldn't leave him alone once it started bleeding. But it has already scabbed over and doesn't look bad at all. If I didn't see it yesterday I wouldn't even know he was hurt. I'm just scared of him getting an infection, then eating an infected bird? Since they have left him alone, and he is acting normal, I'm not going to try to fix it or anything. I'll just wait to cull with the rest. Hopefully Monday.

They heal amazingly fast, if it is healing it is not infected. The chicken immune system is an amazing thing! (Even on Cornish-X)!

 

[Perry17]

Yea it is perfectly fine today, it looks normal but missing a few tail feathers. I have noticed a blob of fat right under that? Not sure it there was something wrong before they attacked him, or if there might be fluid built up from the wound, or if he just had something else going on.

I will get a picture of it later today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Please do might be infection set in

 

[Perry17]

It looks like how an egg bound chicken looks...but this is a cockerel.

I'll get a picture soon as I get home. It looks more like extra fat or something

 

[Parront]

It looks like how an egg bound chicken looks...but this is a cockerel.

I'll get a picture soon as I get home. It looks more like extra fat or something

Is it on top of the tail? or below the tail?

 

[Perry17]

The fat lump is at the end of the breast meat. I have heard where broilers will fill with fluid, I am thinking that might be what is happening.

 

[imfinitechickens]

they are cannibals -