My favorite rooster and 2 of my favorite hens were attacked yesterday afternoon when I left the house for a couple of hours. These are recurring attacks and I have now lost 5 chickens and a duck from whatever this predator is. They are normally free range, but they’re going to have to be locked up in their coop for the feasible future until I can find the culprit. So yesterday I found my roosters feathers in a pile outside and thought for sure that he was gone. I did a head count in the coop and noticed the other 2 were gone and I was just crushed. About an hour later I just happened to look out the window and saw my rooster walking back towards the coop! I quickly scooped him up in a towel and looked him over and couldn’t find any physical injuries other than a cut on his foot, and a spot on his back that was plucked. But no open wounds or anything serious. I still put him in isolation with a heat lamp and some water with electrolytes for the night. I went out this morning to feed him a scrambled egg and some scratch grains and noticed that he hadn’t touched his water. He wouldn’t eat either and just stayed sitting under his heat lamp. I picked him up to look him over again and he fell asleep in my lap. I tried to hand feed him the eggs and he just weakly put his beak on my hand and tried a few nibbles but that was it. He’s constantly keeping his eyes closed too. He kind of stumbles over himself when he walks now and just acts really off balance. What’s going on with him and how can I help him?
