I am so lost - my finger tips are bleeding from all the googling I've been doing.
My older bantam cochin rooster has all kind of symptoms, I don't know if I'm treating what right or what direction I need to go. Maybe someone can help me....
One day I noticed him limping some, thought nothing of it really because he acted normal otherwise.
3 days later I go out to find him huddled in the corner with his eyes closed and tail droopy. OH NO!
I immediately pick him up and ck him all over. The foot he was limping on has a scab on top of it. I looked up bumblefoot and ruled that out. So I thought OK, his foot is sore and that's why he's not feeling good. Stated doctoring on his foot. He's not limping anymore but still is acting sick. So started him on some antibiotics thinking he got an infection. A week goes by and he's still the same. UGH!
So, as I'm in tractor supply I stumble upon a little bag of powder stuff that is intended for coccidia. Hmmm, so while in TSC I start googling coccidia symptoms and low-n-behold he has all the symptoms except for bloody poop:
Droopiness/listlessness, loss of appetite (he is eating some but not his normal self), pale combs and wattles, ruffled, unthrifty feathers, huddling.
I'm somewhat excited because I think I finally figured out what is wrong with him!!
So I get corid and start him on it immediately. 4 days pass and he's still about the same. It's weird because 1 minute he's walking around, eating and looking alert & I think he's making progress.... then next minute he's huddled up in the corner with his head down and eyes closed. UGH again!!
So I pick him up again to look him over and this time I happen to stumble across his crop, it felt hard like a knot. I picked up another chicken & compared his to theirs and his does feel like an impacted crop. So I isolated him with no food except for ACV water for 24hrs and his crop is smaller but there is still a gumball sized hard knot/ball there.
I had never felt his crop before, could all his symptoms be from a compacted crop the whole time?? Do they act that sick with those symptoms from an impacted crop - including paleness??
I know I am all over the place with his doctorings... but I am scared to death that I'm not treating the right thing and that I'm running out of time.
Also, after noticing his crop.... I did recall seeing him several times after eating stretch his neck out & "yawn" - he would do this several times in a row. That a sign of a crop issue??
My older bantam cochin rooster has all kind of symptoms, I don't know if I'm treating what right or what direction I need to go. Maybe someone can help me....
One day I noticed him limping some, thought nothing of it really because he acted normal otherwise.
3 days later I go out to find him huddled in the corner with his eyes closed and tail droopy. OH NO!
I immediately pick him up and ck him all over. The foot he was limping on has a scab on top of it. I looked up bumblefoot and ruled that out. So I thought OK, his foot is sore and that's why he's not feeling good. Stated doctoring on his foot. He's not limping anymore but still is acting sick. So started him on some antibiotics thinking he got an infection. A week goes by and he's still the same. UGH!
So, as I'm in tractor supply I stumble upon a little bag of powder stuff that is intended for coccidia. Hmmm, so while in TSC I start googling coccidia symptoms and low-n-behold he has all the symptoms except for bloody poop:
Droopiness/listlessness, loss of appetite (he is eating some but not his normal self), pale combs and wattles, ruffled, unthrifty feathers, huddling.
I'm somewhat excited because I think I finally figured out what is wrong with him!!
So I get corid and start him on it immediately. 4 days pass and he's still about the same. It's weird because 1 minute he's walking around, eating and looking alert & I think he's making progress.... then next minute he's huddled up in the corner with his head down and eyes closed. UGH again!!
So I pick him up again to look him over and this time I happen to stumble across his crop, it felt hard like a knot. I picked up another chicken & compared his to theirs and his does feel like an impacted crop. So I isolated him with no food except for ACV water for 24hrs and his crop is smaller but there is still a gumball sized hard knot/ball there.
I had never felt his crop before, could all his symptoms be from a compacted crop the whole time?? Do they act that sick with those symptoms from an impacted crop - including paleness??
I know I am all over the place with his doctorings... but I am scared to death that I'm not treating the right thing and that I'm running out of time.
Also, after noticing his crop.... I did recall seeing him several times after eating stretch his neck out & "yawn" - he would do this several times in a row. That a sign of a crop issue??