My rooster can’t walk!

[nataliegrinks]

What has he been eating recently? Usually not eating causes the green poops or possibly from eating a lot of greens. Mareks is always a possibility. Even though it usually causes symptoms in younger birds from 5 to 30 weeks, they can be infected at any age. It can lie dormant in the body and suddenly become active by a stressor. But there are so many other possible causes. Mareks is best diagnosed with testing of tumor tissue or feather shafts during a necropsy. Other methods may have false negative results.

He’s been eating quite a bit. His poo is sometimes less bright green (bile). I feed him scrambled eggs or tuna mixed with yogurt or applesauce or egg yolk. Eating isn’t his problem. He isn’t drinking as much these last two days where before he was drinking a lot. His crop seems normal. I have pictures to upload of his legs this morning. Thank you

 

[nataliegrinks]

These are his legs. The leg in the foreground is his left. He seemed to have trouble and not be able to move it forward. It was shaking so I moved it for him and he sat down. He’s missing a lots of scales and his spurs have been trimmed. The black spots we assumed were wounds (dried blood) from having to fight other Roos one day before we culled them. Now I’m not so sure. Ideas?