Rooster bleeding from ears

[joella13b]

My rooster has had dried blood coming out of both ears for a few months now. I have helped remove some at the ends with warm water but can never get it all off. Appears he has waxy ears but other that that I haven’t noticed anything else abnormal besides that he is yawning a lot more often. Don’t think it’s from an accident since it has been going on for awhile. Any ideas?

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Who else is in your flock? Do you have another rooster?

That looks like pecking injury on the earlobes (not actual blood running from the ear hole down the ear lobe).

Somebody is pecking him. Generally that's another rooster as they tussle for dominance.

The other thought...do you have any wire fencing? I had a weird neck/head scraping on one hen. Turned out she liked to eat bugs on the OTHER side of the fence. She'd stick her head between the wires, then when she pulled it back, she scraped up her head.

But that's not frank blood running from ear holes, anyway, from what the pics show on my computer screen.

LofMc

 

[joella13b]

He’s our only rooster. We have 9 other hens, but I haven’t ever seen them go after him. We do have chicken wire though. Maybe it could be from that? I’ll go look at the coop and see if there’s any exposed ends. Other that that I have no clue what it could be.

But thank you!

 

[coach723]

It could have started as a small injury and then the blood drew pecking which made it worse. I know my roo's will often put up with being pecked by hens. You might try to disguise it with some blu kote to cover the red to give it time to heal up. Sometimes that works.