Centrachid, Well all I can say is that you are very blessed or lucky that you haven't had any issues with your animals, since as you can see from this site that there are many people that do, that I'm sure love and care about their animals or they wouldn't be on here trying to get help for them. I don't understand what you are implying and keep calling him a gamefowl and implying that his comb and waddles were cut off or any of that. He was just my baby rooster that was a pet, that stayed on my porch, he was very well taken care of and did NOT have his comb and waddles cut off or anything like that. Seems like you may be implying that I am actually fighting roosters or something for sport like some people do! That's the feeling that I get from your posts. This is absolutely NOT the case! And I am offended that you would even imply such a thing, and say that this is not a case of too many roosters, which is the same as calling me a liar. I would never do such a thing and would report anyone that did. I am an animal lover of all animals and always do my best in all my animals cases to take very good care of them and address any issues that they may have. Also prevention through management is also my approach. I baby sit those chickens every day like they were my children. I have an online shop, so I am home most of the time working on my computer and I am constantly checking on them when I am here, Had I been here that day, none of this would have happened. This IS absolutely because of too many roosters. The baby had just gotten old enough to decide that he wanted to have a girlfriend too and had probably gotten after one of the hens that had gotten separated from the rest, as has happened before, and Jr. caught up with him. When this has happened before the hen would call for Jr and Jr would come running from where ever he was to rescue, and in time past, the baby rooster would run from him but now has gotten to start standing up to him. I have broken them up a few times because of this. It is my fault though, Mother had told me to get rid of one of them before this happened, but I figured that they would stop and I didn't want to get rid of either of them because the hens were used to Jr and he is a good rooster for them, and the baby was my pet and I didn't want to get rid of him either, thought I could manage it and make them stop but I was wrong. If I had been here this wouldn't have happened, but realistically I couldn't be here all of the time since I do have to go places sometimes. This rooster had a comb that did not stand up straight but hung over to one side like an Elvis hairdo, I called him Elvis Jr sometimes because of this. He beak was NOT busted and waddles were NOT cut off. He took a beating and a lot of damage was done to his comb. The picture is of the other side of his face where his one eye took the most damage. If I had taken a picture of the other side, you would have seen his beat up comb but I couldn't get a picture of the other side because of the way he was sitting in the cage and I didn't want to disturb him just to get the picture. Thought you just wanted to see the size and type he was, didn't know you were looking for a comb and such. Just needed some medical help like Chicknmania stated.
Casportpony, thanks so much, I will see about getting these supplies so I will have them next time I have an issue with a sick or injured chicken. I am getting up supplies that I may need at any time so that I have them on hand for what ever situation may arise that I can deal with. Can't afford vet bills and have lots of different kinds of animals.
