My rooster had a limp 3 dsys later he died.

[Hyland 79]

My rooster who was just shy of 1 year old and very healthy started limping one day. He was favoring his leg for a couple days then seemed to be a little better. On the 3rd night I was putting them to bed, when I noticed he was hunkered down on the floor instead of the roost. He seemed to be in pain so we let him be. The next day we decided to put him in a cage so he wouldn't try to move around. By night fall he had passed. He didn't appear to have mites or grout. I later learned that my cousin has lost 2 chickens with very similar issues. What may have caused this? I originally thought maybe internal bleeding, amd thought maybe he got worse trying to fly up on his coop and fell making his injury worse but now I'm not sure.. any thoughts??

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

My rooster who was just shy of 1 year old and very healthy started limping one day. He was favoring his leg for a couple days then seemed to be a little better. On the 3rd night I was putting them to bed, when I noticed he was hunkered down on the floor instead of the roost. He seemed to be in pain so we let him be. The next day we decided to put him in a cage so he wouldn't try to move around. By night fall he had passed. He didn't appear to have mites or grout. I later learned that my cousin has lost 2 chickens with very similar issues. What may have caused this? I originally thought maybe internal bleeding, amd thought maybe he got worse trying to fly up on his coop and fell making his injury worse but now I'm not sure.. any thoughts??

Poor guy! I’m so sorry for your loss!
Bear hugs!