Frostbite!

[TOP KNOT]

How is your rooster doing? Did he heal up ok?

 

[centrarchid]

Do you also have another rooster? Damage appears too complex to be from frostbite alone. Damage to eye first clue something else at play.

 

[Rebekers]

Our French Black Maran rooster has had the head shake for three or four months now, and it looks exactly like your video. He and our other chickens also just recently got frostbitten/frost burned...I hadn't positioned the heat lamp quite right. Our oldest hen has a swollen comb, and the others all have whitish, crusty, and black places on their combs. Their wattles are fine right now, though they were also slightly frostbitten, but they seem to have cleared up much faster than the combs. I would love to know why the rooster is shaking his head. I've read something about it being a viral thing that can't be helped, and eventually it will kill him. Since he's been doing it since before the weather got cold, I am inclined to believe it's a separate problem from the frost bite. He is about 10 months old. Their black spots don't look quite like what was pictured, either. More like frostbite combined with wounds from pecking. With 3 roosters and 4 hens (just added another hen today), there's some fierce competition going on!

 

[Eggcessive]

Our French Black Maran rooster has had the head shake for three or four months now, and it looks exactly like your video. He and our other chickens also just recently got frostbitten/frost burned...I hadn't positioned the heat lamp quite right. Our oldest hen has a swollen comb, and the others all have whitish, crusty, and black places on their combs. Their wattles are fine right now, though they were also slightly frostbitten, but they seem to have cleared up much faster than the combs. I would love to know why the rooster is shaking his head. I've read something about it being a viral thing that can't be helped, and eventually it will kill him. Since he's been doing it since before the weather got cold, I am inclined to believe it's a separate problem from the frost bite. He is about 10 months old. Their black spots don't look quite like what was pictured, either. More like frostbite combined with wounds from pecking. With 3 roosters and 4 hens (just added another hen today), there's some fierce competition going on!

Welcome to BYC. Head shaking can be a sign of respiratory infection (shaking loose a plug of mucus), ear infection, mites, and frostbite.