Rooster acting very weird

[birdwrangler057]

hi! I have a Golden Laced Sebright Rooster and he’s very abnormal and neurotic. Today is the coldest day we’ve had, I don’t know if that has had anything to do with it, but he wasn’t acting weird at all until this morning, my two other bantam roosters are acting similar but aren’t as bad. He won’t move, keeps his feathers ruffled, and his eyes closed, I brought him inside to warm him up and he’s still acting that way. He can barely walk either. It seems like some sort of paralysis, maybe caused by deficiency or something. Please help!

 

[Brookethechickenwhisperer]

It could be that they have to be balled up to be warm and that they have balled up so it is hard to get out of the position.Pretty much like freezing in the same position and it is hard to get out of it.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would keep an eye on them, in case of other symptoms. Hopefully, it is just the cold, but seabrights can be susceptible to Mareks disease. It certainly would not hurt to use a poultry vitamin in their water or give them 1 ml of Poultry Cell or NutriDrench daily. It helps to keep a thermometer in the coop, and bantams can sometimes need a little extra heat. Avoid drafts, and close up anything but the very top of the coop walls during extreme cold weather.

 

[birdwrangler057]

It could be that they have to be balled up to be warm and that they have balled up so it is hard to get out of the position.Pretty much like freezing in the same position and it is hard to get out of it.

Huh, he is kind of losening up since I brought him in, but he still is in kind of a paralysis. None of my large chickens are acting this way, only my bantam roos and he’s the worst of them. Hopefully it’s just that

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

He looks cold. Put him in a dog crate with a heat lamp, give him water with electrolytes, and give him and the other chickens while corn before they go to sleep so that they’ll be able to generate body heat while they sleep.

 

[birdwrangler057]

I would keep an eye on them, in case of other symptoms. Hopefully, it is just the cold, but seabrights can be susceptible to Mareks disease. It certainly would not hurt to use a poultry vitamin in their water or give them 1 ml of Poultry Cell or NutriDrench daily. It helps to keep a thermometer in the coop, and bantams can sometimes need a little extra heat. Avoid drafts, and close up anything but the very top of the coop walls during extreme cold weather.

Yeah! Well I had a hatched chick (Barred rock) die of paralysis last year, but I think it was from vitamin deficiency, not Mereks. Okay, I’ll work on that, we barely get cold weather like this, it was between 40F-75F all December.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Also apply Vaseline or coconut oil to his comb and wattles to keep him from getting frostbite.

 

[birdwrangler057]

He looks cold. Put him in a dog crate with a heat lamp, give him water with electrolytes, and give him and the other chickens while corn before they go to sleep so that they’ll be able to generate body heat while they sleep.

Okay! Will do!

 

[Eggcessive]

I would always try vitamins with neurological problems, but if you lose another one, I would have a necropsy done by the state vet or poultry lab, and a test for Mareks. Mareks can look a lot of different ways, and can only best be confirmed on a dead bird after examining feather shafts or tumor tissue. My coop was zero this am and my birds are much less active.

 

[birdwrangler057]

Also apply Vaseline or coconut oil to his comb and wattles to keep him from getting frostbite.

Huh, I kind of started doing that on my own a while back, I’ll re apply