Rooster Doing Strange Behavior

[Saaniya]

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Hey Saaniya, I hope your roo is doing better today. I've been doing some research on the problem and not much comes up via google search other than threads in this site. So, I'll link what I've found.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-with-vertigo-dizzy.660341/page-2

It sounds like subluxation; does he seem dizzy in general or only after he's done his spinning? Maybe an inner ear infection, even. Have you tried feeling his neck to see if there's anything there?

Ohh thanks dear ..

No he's not dizzy at all running jumping happy only once he did like he see something on the roof that's it thanks u reply and help me

 

[jay873]

Could he have gotten hurt by anything like a predator. It could chase him and he could run intosomething a hard hit on the head can mess them up

 

[aart]

So he only did the circling thing once and now is fine?

 

[JoPoKa]

Is he doing something like that?

 

[Saaniya]

So he only did the circling thing once and now is fine?

Yeah

 

[Saaniya]

Is he doing something like that?

Yeah only once

 

[Saaniya]

So he only did the circling thing once and now is fine?

He didn't do again ..
Normal and playing then after .
Running chasing me

 

[JoPoKa]

Would you be able to record him doing this behaviour if he happens to do it again? I'm looking up botulism, wry neck.... but considering he's acting normal now and he's 5 months old, I'm even thinking that you've just got a real 'rooster' now. Meaning he's sexually mature and that spinning he did could be him trying to catch his harem's attention like "Hello ladies! Come here, I've got something for you!"

Just to be safe though, I'd give the flock a mineral/vitamin powder mixed into their water for a few days just in case it is wry neck. A few extra vitamins can't hurt, I say... unless you get the doseage wrong. I'm not much of a math person so I'm sure somewhere in BYC there's a doseage chart for mixing a vitamin/mineral supplement powder into their water.

Here's what wry neck looks like:

Oh and stop giving chenopodium album leaf. We have those here in Canada, too and this is what our biodiversity says...

"Lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album) is a naturalized annual herb found in disturbed soils across Canada. This plant can cause sickness and death in livestock if large quantities are ingested. The plants can accumulate both nitrates and soluble oxalates. Cattle and sheep have been poisoned. Humans who consume large quantities of the plant and are subsequently exposed to sunlight suffer photosensitization (Whitehead and Moxon 1952, Cooper and Johnson 1984)."

If your chickens are free ranging, I'd imagine they would stay away from the plant on their own, however because you offered it to them, they might have figured that it was a treat since it came from you.

Hope this helps!!

 

[Saaniya]

Would you be able to record him doing this behaviour if he happens to do it again? I'm looking up botulism, wry neck.... but considering he's acting normal now and he's 5 months old, I'm even thinking that you've just got a real 'rooster' now. Meaning he's sexually mature and that spinning he did could be him trying to catch his harem's attention like "Hello ladies! Come here, I've got something for you!"

Just to be safe though, I'd give the flock a mineral/vitamin powder mixed into their water for a few days just in case it is wry neck. A few extra vitamins can't hurt, I say... unless you get the doseage wrong. I'm not much of a math person so I'm sure somewhere in BYC there's a doseage chart for mixing a vitamin/mineral supplement powder into their water.

Here's what wry neck looks like:

Oh and stop giving chenopodium album leaf. We have those here in Canada, too and this is what our biodiversity says...

"Lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album) is a naturalized annual herb found in disturbed soils across Canada. This plant can cause sickness and death in livestock if large quantities are ingested. The plants can accumulate both nitrates and soluble oxalates. Cattle and sheep have been poisoned. Humans who consume large quantities of the plant and are subsequently exposed to sunlight suffer photosensitization (Whitehead and Moxon 1952, Cooper and Johnson 1984)."

If your chickens are free ranging, I'd imagine they would stay away from the plant on their own, however because you offered it to them, they might have figured that it was a treat since it came from you.

Hope this helps!!

Yeah you are right ..
Sometimes he seems so angry young man lol ..I'm so thankful for your brief reply ..yes I will not give them that plant again ..

Yes they free range on our roof everyday we have simple plants of herbs like mint and dil also we have pomegranate tree and gooseberry tree and apple tree but they don't eat anything from them except mint ..

I'll start their vitamins ..
I've petcare esstential vitamins with amino acids and DHA without iron hope that vitamin had vitE I'll also search some natural sources of vitaE ..

Again big thanks for help.

 

[Saaniya]

This is the ProoviBoost Essential Vitamins & It Has VitaE luckily