Fixing Florus, neck injury from fighting...

[jfaith51]

He looks better than I thought he would. Hopefully he has an injury that will just take time to heal. He is a beautiful rooster. Will he eat or drink on his own?

 

[NovaAman]

Yes. He is. Drinking is a bit more problematic, but he seems to be getting the hang of it. I have another vid of him, where his head is much more cocked...

 

[NovaAman]

Florus is in a pen in the garage now. He's been poultry drenched, aspirin, and now just to keep him getting better. He has no roost, I don't want him jumping up if at all possible, mostly I don't want him to fall... The garage is warm so...

 

[drumstick diva]

Florus is beautiful, I expected him to be stooped over. From the looks of him on the video I think he is on the road to recovery. Maybe he is a bit stiff because it hurts. I always thought when a rooster can and does crow - he is feelin' his oats.

 

[NovaAman]

I went out to the garage and found Florus GONE. Not kidding. Went to go and find him, thinking he might be in some trouble. I found him in his pen with his ladies... I have a vid of that. I guess I can just leave them confined in their coop and run for the time being. Keep dosing him with drench, vits, selenium and e. I was hoping that with him the garage, and it being warm, he'd be comfortable. There are other birds in the garage. I haven't figured out where he managed to free himself from though...

 

[drumstick diva]

Florus is just a dedicated family man - happy he is acting normally.

 

[NovaAman]

Aside from the crooked head, yeah. He's normal.

I was so upset when I found him last night. I was sure I would have a dead rooster in the morning. If I had had batteries last night, I would have video taped him then. It's hard to explain how different he looked last night. I mean, imagine your perfectly normal roo with his head stuck down, and almost facing backwards... Maybe I freaked more than I needed, but I was very upset when I found him like that under the broody roost on his side with his face staring up and crooked... I threatened RBahmer that I was going to go and steal his brother back from her if he needed to be put down.

 

[NovaAman]

Florus is back in the garage. hi found him walking in circle, head down, cocked to the side, almost up upside down... He got out of his pen. I don't know how. I think maybe from when I cleaned the run out, he is able to push under the fence that's plastic that I use to walk through... Gah! I have to work inthe morning, so I have to get up extra early to give him another dose of vits.

 

[Nambroth]

Oh gosh, when I logged in just the first sentence of the post "I went out to the garage and found Florus GONE." I almost choked. I thought you meant he had passed. Glad that he is feeling well enough to push out to get to his ladies!

Just remember that selenium and E are not water soluble and you don't want to give him too much unless you're sure a deficiency is causing his wry neck. I truly hope that it is just a minor injury and that with rest (REST, Florus, not busting out of jail for GIRLS...) it will heal up good as new.

 

[NovaAman]

Florus is worse after his escape from his garage pen. I let him out today though so he could walk around the garage. The garage birds are small, in comparrison to Florus... Ok... they are TINY. All bantams, so he's a giant. Even the garage roo, Pat the Rat is so small, that he could probably walk between Florus's feet and not touch his belly.