We have a 4 month old silver penciled leghorn rooster.
Normal diet: lay crumbles, cracked corn from the cows, whatever they find in the chicken yard to eat bug-wise, water with ACV added this past 2 weeks. Added Vi-Tal to water 1 week ago, too, but not since then.
It's 120 here, but they have a lot of shade and fresh cool water at all times. He's normally with 20 other hens and a few roos.
I noticed him limping a little yesterday evening. I checked his feet and legs at that time, nothing struck me as odd or different, except that webbing between the toes on the tender foot was more yellow than the other side. I found no wounds, bugs, marks, nothing. The legs seemed fine, but I'm no expert. He didn't mind me feeling around though.
This evening, he didn't come to get food with the rest.
I found him hiding in between hay bales. When he ran off, he ran mostly on one leg. He was able to jump up to the roost, but still favored one leg up there.
We have brought him into the house and put him in a cage with water with Vi-Tal added. I am boiling up eggs right now to give him some egg yolk with the lay crumble added.
His feet still look normal, except they are curled. We tried to get him to stand and he wouldn't. When I physically uncurled one foot, he was fine with it. When I uncurled the limping foot, he flinched and wasn't happy.
Today, I also found a little slice on his wattle and the surrounding skin looked brownish-yellow rather than white. I don't know how long that has been there. I don't know if this is relevant to the foot issue.
What is going on with him? What do I do now????
Normal diet: lay crumbles, cracked corn from the cows, whatever they find in the chicken yard to eat bug-wise, water with ACV added this past 2 weeks. Added Vi-Tal to water 1 week ago, too, but not since then.
It's 120 here, but they have a lot of shade and fresh cool water at all times. He's normally with 20 other hens and a few roos.
I noticed him limping a little yesterday evening. I checked his feet and legs at that time, nothing struck me as odd or different, except that webbing between the toes on the tender foot was more yellow than the other side. I found no wounds, bugs, marks, nothing. The legs seemed fine, but I'm no expert. He didn't mind me feeling around though.
This evening, he didn't come to get food with the rest.
I found him hiding in between hay bales. When he ran off, he ran mostly on one leg. He was able to jump up to the roost, but still favored one leg up there.
We have brought him into the house and put him in a cage with water with Vi-Tal added. I am boiling up eggs right now to give him some egg yolk with the lay crumble added.
His feet still look normal, except they are curled. We tried to get him to stand and he wouldn't. When I physically uncurled one foot, he was fine with it. When I uncurled the limping foot, he flinched and wasn't happy.
Today, I also found a little slice on his wattle and the surrounding skin looked brownish-yellow rather than white. I don't know how long that has been there. I don't know if this is relevant to the foot issue.
What is going on with him? What do I do now????
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