Rooster Infertility !! What can cause this ??.

[al6517]

The original source is not an option and may actually have been the problem I dunno, when I went to pick him up the condition of the pens were deplorable and it took me several months to get this Roo back to good health. I have thought that maybe that was it albeit remote. I have heard that if you dust your birds with 7 dust to rid them of mites that it causes infertility, but I don't use it only DE. I also have been using a potion a fellow Okie BYCer has formulated for me, a mix of Vitamins and oil extracts but have yet to see any results, I have my fingers crossed for what I call Rooster Viagra LOL.

AL

 

[al6517]

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I am right with you on your process, and I have switched Roo's and the hens are very fertile with this other Rooster of a different breed.

By the way he is a Standard White Cornish, show bred from great stock.

AL

 

[rhoda_bruce]

omg.......thats terrible. I had some cornish game hens and I loved their shape. I would just look at them and tell people that I can just see myself plucking them and can imagine what they would look like all dressed out. They probably thought I was nuts.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Hi Al,

I found this article:

http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/79/4/568.pdf

It is a study on infertility caused by the formation of epididymal stones on the testies in leghorn & broiler roosters.



I've also ran across several mentions of Infectious Bronchitis causing infertility.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Okay.......this is really desparate and a diffinate longshot, but we can artificially insiminate turkeys with turkey sperm. I don't know what the procedure would be or how to get the specimen, but I would think it would be worth a shot.

 

[al6517]

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Hey Tara thanks for the link, I will read it through, it was Les that gave me the Vitality formula. I have visited with some Cornish breeders throughout the country and nobody is getting eggs it seems, the food for thought is that show breeders are breeding the legs too short causing some mounting problems, gotta love show breeders playing God and destroying breeds LOL.

AL

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Hi Al,

If he has never covered a hen then it seems like a teststerone issue and I don't think that is fixable. Horny goat weed is a natural herb for male problems but I have no idea what side affects it could cause a bird. Then again, what do you have to lose?

Is it possible the person you bought him from caponized him?

 

[al6517]

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The problem is not collecting the specimin but in the specimin being clear or infertile, I have been able to AI although it is a little tough as these monsters have big strong backs, which posses some difficulty in the extraction procedure.

AL

 

[al6517]

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No not possible he is Caponized, Yes I agree if I could get him interested in these girls he should lose his mind LOL, perhaps some toenail polish on the hens feet would help LOL.

AL

 

[patandchickens]

I hesitate to say this, but if he is (and it does sound like it) stone-cold infertile and not even mating the hens, I would question whether them are genes you would want to be passing along even if you *could* by some miracle get him going a bit. I realize that is not helpful

and that for a super rare nearly nonexistant breed one has to work with whatever's available and hope to select away the problems in future generations... but I dunno, in this case...

How long have you been trying with him? If you haven't had him too long, it might be worth keeping him til next summer, on a really good (not lavish, just good-nutrition) diet, and see if his male attributes perk up come springtime.

(e.t.a. -- this is an extremely wild speculation, but, any possibility that a person showing cornishes might try to bulk them up with steroids or the like, a la bodybuilders? and then might, of course, if someone wanted to buy a roo from them, sell the steroid-enhanced but not-necessarily-fertile-as-a-result ones, rather than ones the owner had better reason to beleive were fertile? I mean, probably not, but, just sayin'?)

Good luck,

Pat