My survival rooster Story

[Love my chickens 25]

That’s sad, hopefully he makes a quick recovery.

Yes

 

[Love my chickens 25]

Little more perky today

 

[chrissynemetz]

Perky is good
Is he still eating and pooping normal?

 

[Love my chickens 25]

Yes

 

[chrissynemetz]

I'm so glad! It sounds like he's doing great.

 

[Love my chickens 25]

Yes but very sensitive and shy

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Yes but very sensitive and shy

Poor guy - sad he was injured but so glad he survived! I recently lost a male guinea to a dog attack - it was so quick. I saw the dog carrying my guinea and have chase. The dog dropped the guinea, which was still alive. When I did a quick check, the guinea seemed to have minimal injuries, but it died a few minutes later. I decided to butcher it for my sister who wanted to cook a guinea. When I processed it, I could see why it died. Even though I couldn’t see much damage externally, there was blood in the abdomen from massive ruptured abdominal blood vessels. There was also extensive bruising around the pelvis that I could only see when the bird was plucked. All of this to say that there was a lot of internal damage and bruising that wasn’t obvious from the outside. It sounds like your roo is already on the road to recovery, which is great to hear!

 

[chrissynemetz]

It could possibly take him quite a while to calm down and be back to normal after the stress of the attack.

 

[Rooapalooza]

I'm glad he's going to survive! I agree, don't handle him too much. I once had my meanest rooster sacrifice himself to a dog that was going after a hen (it wasn't the dog's fault, my stupid hen flew into his lawn). He lived, but had a limp, and actually a much better attitude. I hate it when things like this happen to the sweet ones .

 

[Love my chickens 25]

Poor guy - sad he was injured but so glad he survived! I recently lost a male guinea to a dog attack - it was so quick. I saw the dog carrying my guinea and have chase. The dog dropped the guinea, which was still alive. When I did a quick check, the guinea seemed to have minimal injuries, but it died a few minutes later. I decided to butcher it for my sister who wanted to cook a guinea. When I processed it, I could see why it died. Even though I couldn’t see much damage externally, there was blood in the abdomen from massive ruptured abdominal blood vessels. There was also extensive bruising around the pelvis that I could only see when the bird was plucked. All of this to say that there was a lot of internal damage and bruising that wasn’t obvious from the outside. It sounds like your roo is already on the road to recovery, which is great to hear!

I am sorry about yours