Purple swollen wattle

[Eggcessive]

Try checking with a farm vet who sees large animals. Sometimes they are pretty familiar with chickens since they do farm visits. Is he still acting pretty normal?

 

[Jose11632]

Try checking with a farm vet who sees large animals. Sometimes they are pretty familiar with chickens since they do farm visits. Is he still acting pretty normal?

Yes he’s acting normal crowing when carried screams when something is being thrown runs to the girls, walks normally,

 

[sassychickens76]

I hope he gets better!

 

[Jose11632]

I hope he gets better!

Thank you! I hope so too

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Thanks for keeping us posted, Jose. It looks like I was wrong. I'm really worried about him now that this seems to keep spreading.

@Eggcessive and @aart, do you think @ChickenCanoe could give us any additional insight here?

 

[Jose11632]

Thanks for keeping us posted, Jose. It looks like I was wrong. I'm really worried about him now that this seems to keep spreading.

@Eggcessive and @aart, do you think @ChickenCanoe could give us any additional insight here?

Is it a bruise or bug what could it be? Don’t see him acting strange

 

[Jose11632]

Thanks for keeping us posted, Jose. It looks like I was wrong. I'm really worried about him now that this seems to keep spreading.

@Eggcessive and @aart, do you think @ChickenCanoe could give us any additional insight here?

Never dealt with this is it really spreading don’t know how infections work mostly thought it was in one area. The parts that got inflated a bit felt meaty or hard kinda like the comb

 

[Wyorp Rock]

A vet would be best if possible. I've never seen anything like that. The wattle may need to be dubbed to stop the spread of infection. It looks necrotic.

 

[Jose11632]

A vet would be best if possible. I've never seen anything like that. The wattle may need to be dubbed to stop the spread of infection. It looks necrotic.

If it spreads more could it kill him? I have a neighbor who has been dubbing game roosters for years should I ask him in case I can’t find a vet? And if he isn’t available how would I dub him?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I don't know, I've never seen anything like that.

You could ask your neighbor if he's willing to do it - your laying breed rooster has thick wattles, so it will bleed quite a bit. He may not want to risk doing it.