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good luck to your roo, hope he recovers and can one day get a better place in the flockIt's always a sad state of affairs to watch the decline of once prominent members of the flock!
I have a male (off topic as no feather eating involved) who was top of his little group. Inside of one week, this was his reality: top of the flock, challenged and beaten by an underling, moved to a new coop with more room, regained top position, severe cold swept in and he got pretty bad frostbite on his wattles from my watering situation (which has since been changed) and finally to the bottom of the pecking order, having been beaten up and driven from the coop. I found him standing outside in the freezing cold wind. Poor boy!
So now he's his own flock member and I haven't yet decided if he will be culled or not. His wattles still seem to be in pretty sad shape and I'm trying to see him through this. I need to compare him to his full brother so I can decide whether or not to do the deed. He's such a pretty boy, but so is his brother, who has not suffered any frostbite at all. Now before anybody jumps off the deep end... no, I wouldn't cull him for getting frostbite. Two other boys got it too and I've given them all the same care. The other boys are both almost back to normal. This guy though... I don't know if he has gotten an infection in the wattles or not. One of them is quite round and hard and blackened. The other is not quite as big but it is blackened too and also hard... so... he needs to recover... or else.