Please Help!!!

[kiddobear39]

Hello I have a Barded Rock Rooster and he was walking around and a tree branch fell on top of him, I was outside and saw the branch hit hit and it hit him in the head for awhile I thought he was not going to make it cause all he wanted to to was lay down and sleep well now he is walking around he is drinking a little bit of water but not eating and he in not crowing like a normal rooster does and he did not roost last night with the hen I was wondering if anyone can help me on knowing if he is going to roost again and start to crow again and if he will make it I keep a close eye on him PLEASE if anyone can help me on what I can do there are no vets in my area for chickensI would hate to lose him cause we love him and he keeps a close eye on the hens for us!!!!!!!!!

 

[kiddobear39]

Hello I have a Barded Rock Rooster and he was walking around and a tree branch fell on top of him, I was outside and saw the branch hit hit and it hit him in the head for awhile I thought he was not going to make it cause all he wanted to to was lay down and sleep well now he is walking around he is drinking a little bit of water but not eating and he in not crowing like a normal rooster does and he did not roost last night with the hen I was wondering if anyone can help me on knowing if he is going to roost again and start to crow again and if he will make it I keep a close eye on him PLEASE if anyone can help me on what I can do there are no vets in my area for chickensI would hate to lose him cause we love him and he keeps a close eye on the hens for us!!!!!!!!!

CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THE QUESTION I JUST ASKED ABOUT MY ROOSTER PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!!!!!

 

[daytonfarm]

Pretty much you are doing all you can. If he has head trauma, he is either going to live or die. The fact that he is still alive bodes well for him. Give him time he will probably roost when he fells better. You might try searching for anti inflamatories that can be used for chickens, I have used prednisone on mine before for other issues. But if you can give him something to relieve the pain and or swelling he will feel better sooner.

 

[CherylR]

Hi...I'm sorry this has happened to your roo! To be honest though, I don't have any really terrific advice for you but didn't want to ignore your post since no one else was answering just yet. All I can offer in the area of advice (since you said you can't take him to a vet), is that if I were in the same situation, I would do what your doing- keeping a very close eye on him. He may have a concussion/head injury or other kind of internal injury... who knows. Are there any obvious injuries on him... swelling/ bruises, etc...? I'm not sure what you can do for him w/out having access to veterinary care, but I would keep him quiet (by himself if that doesn't stress him out, and certainly if the other birds are bothering him) and be sure he's eating and drinking to give his body time to repair itself if it will. Maybe you could get him to eat a little crumble moistened with water/plain yogurt, or a little watered down canned dog or cat food (just temporarily), etc... I guess that's good that he's still walking and drinking water. Hopefully someone else will chime in that has had experience dealing with this type of injury and can give you better advice. In the meantime, I would keep a close eye on him and give him supportive care, and maybe search around this site for other posts with this type of injury. Hopefully, with some TLC, he will roost and crow when he's feeling better. Best wishes!
Anyone have some helpful advice???

 

[CherylR]

Ooops! Looks like Daytonfarm beat me to the first reply! Glad you're getting some advice!

 

[marianne7]

Like any animal that has been injured, he is probably in pain, and will need time to recover, expect some different behaviour from him until he has completely recovered, (it looks like he will if he is drinking) just give it a little time, like the others have said, you are doing all you can, we are believing he will be fine....If animals are eating or drinking, their survival mode had kicked in, and that can only be good.

 

[kiddobear39]

Hello I have a Barded Rock Rooster and he was walking around and a tree branch fell on top of him, I was outside and saw the branch hit hit and it hit him in the head for awhile I thought he was not going to make it cause all he wanted to to was lay down and sleep well now he is walking around he is drinking a little bit of water but not eating and he in not crowing like a normal rooster does and he did not roost last night with the hen I was wondering if anyone can help me on knowing if he is going to roost again and start to crow again and if he will make it I keep a close eye on him PLEASE if anyone can help me on what I can do there are no vets in my area for chickensI would hate to lose him cause we love him and he keeps a close eye on the hens for us!!!!!!!!!

Well some good New my rooster this morning he started to crow some and he is walking around but still not wanting to roost so I think in time he will get better but I am still going to keep a close eye on him the hen don't bother him so I think I will leave him with them so they don't get confused but if someone still has any better advise on what I should do PLEASE feel free do post it for me thank you

 

[CherylR]

Glad to see he's doing better! Best wishes for a full recovery!