Rooster can't walk! Has no balance. Please help!

[Eggcessive]

Yes, it is the same for both types of 10% panacur or SafeGuard. Technically, it is 0.23 ml per pound, but I usually round it up to 0.25 or 1/4 ml. Both types of fenbendazole are not water soluble, and they will settle out in water. There is a type of it called SafeGuard Aquasol that is water slouble, but it costs more than $200 in large quantities.

 

[sharrielee]

I am also having issue with a 1 1/2 year old rooster now cannot walk.
It has been a 3 or 4 weeks now. ( I just can't put him down )
I have 20 chickens total, 5 are roosters. Everyone is fine but him. Started one day i noticed him limping. Thought maybe he was fighting and got hurt. Then after a couple days he was having a hard time walking. Next day he was just walking like a drunken sailor, no balance, kept falling over, face planting. So i caught him and put him in a small cage in a nest box with food and water right in front of him. He kept just flailing around trying to walk and couldn't.
Also his comb is droopy (Like a killer whale in captivity) and pale, no longer bright red and standing upright.
I have started giving him vitamin b-12 every other day and got some Rooster Booster to put in his food. And giving him some treats (Chicken crack from treatsforchickens.com) just to keep him interested.
All chickens eat layer pellets, I throw scratch on the ground each morning and they free range all day every day, and I throw watermelon or berries to them on occasion as well.
All other birds (roosters included) are doing just fine.
I have no clue what is wrong with him! Please help!
Here is a pic of what he looked like a few weeks ago.

 

[The Happster]

Hope he gets better soon.
Mine is absolutely fine now.
I did give him vitamins every day.

 

[sharrielee]

Thank you, I just don't know why this is happening or what else to do
Mine doesn't have spurs and his feet look fine.

 

[Eggcessive]

I am also having issue with a 1 1/2 year old rooster now cannot walk.
It has been a 3 or 4 weeks now. ( I just can't put him down )
I have 20 chickens total, 5 are roosters. Everyone is fine but him. Started one day i noticed him limping. Thought maybe he was fighting and got hurt. Then after a couple days he was having a hard time walking. Next day he was just walking like a drunken sailor, no balance, kept falling over, face planting. So i caught him and put him in a small cage in a nest box with food and water right in front of him. He kept just flailing around trying to walk and couldn't.
Also his comb is droopy (Like a killer whale in captivity) and pale, no longer bright red and standing upright.
I have started giving him vitamin b-12 every other day and got some Rooster Booster to put in his food. And giving him some treats (Chicken crack from treatsforchickens.com) just to keep him interested.
All chickens eat layer pellets, I throw scratch on the ground each morning and they free range all day every day, and I throw watermelon or berries to them on occasion as well.
All other birds (roosters included) are doing just fine.
I have no clue what is wrong with him! Please help!
Here is a pic of what he looked like a few weeks ago.

Have you added any new birds to your flock recently? Was your rooster vaccinated for Mareks disease? Having 5 roosters, an injury might be possible, but Mareks could also be a problem. B complex vitamins is good to use—B12 is only B12, but riboflavin in B complex is good to use with leg problems. Does your other vitamin have riboflavin? Here is some reading about the disease:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq.66077/

 

[sharrielee]

Been a few months since i added any birds. The Rooster Booster has a laundry list of vitamins and ribovlavin is in there. Its like a granual and you sprinkler on food. No vaccinations. I don't know a lot about Mareks, but would everyone have it then? Idk?

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

I didn't realize this was an older thread lol. Glad Pumpkin is better. You said he was on layer? That's actually to much calcium for a rooster. I was worried he had a severe kidney issue, but he is fine now? Either way, I'd get him off layer, mabey put him on start/grow, with oyster or eggshells for the hens.

 

[The Happster]

I didn't realize this was an older thread lol. Glad Pumpkin is better. You said he was on layer? That's actually to much calcium for a rooster. I was worried he had a severe kidney issue, but he is fine now? Either way, I'd get him off layer, mabey put him on start/grow, with oyster or eggshells for the hens.

I can't get anything else where I live.
Chick feed is even hard to come by.
With my recent younglings I've had him on growers for a bit, but that won't last long.
His brother is on it too. I hate them being on layers, but I can't feed them anything else. My dad gets the growers from England.

I also worry that the layers doesn't have enough protein. Going to check the bag. They do free range so are picking up bugs.