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- May 16, 2022
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Hello all! I don’t know what happened or how to diagnose this but my rooster died today in the coop. My son found him laying in the middle of the coop, very stiff but my kids swear they had seen him an hour before.
He was around 2.5-3 years old. He lost some long tail feathers last week but we figured it was due to him fighting with the neighbor’s rooster (his son). A few weeks ago, he was limping but seemed to be almost healed from that, and he had been fighting with the same roo that week as well.
He had table scraps including lettuce, sweet potatoes, and some blueberries a few hours ago. The chickens have all been eating crumble feed and pellets (bags from the local store).
I haven’t dewormed the chickens since last winter when I noticed wormy feces, and I also treated the whole flock for coccidiosis last summer due to sick pullets. No loss or issues since then besides an old hen having to be put down a few months ago.
Issues I feel need mentioned: 1. my neighbor lost a chicken to an unknown illness to die with breathing issues last week.
2. There is a dead dove by the coop that one of the birds picks up and moved but did not eat.
3. It looked like there was straw from their nesting boxes in his mouth and the chickens had drank all the water in the coop since my daughter gave them some this morning, but I’m unsure if the straw was from when my husband removed him from the coop.
My husband buried him already because I have such a fear of illness spreading to my kids so I can’t have him tested
Here are the pictures of his body. I welcome any input. My neighbor thinks he couldn’t breath, but I didn’t notice him struggling at all recently besides the missing tail feathers.
He was around 2.5-3 years old. He lost some long tail feathers last week but we figured it was due to him fighting with the neighbor’s rooster (his son). A few weeks ago, he was limping but seemed to be almost healed from that, and he had been fighting with the same roo that week as well.
He had table scraps including lettuce, sweet potatoes, and some blueberries a few hours ago. The chickens have all been eating crumble feed and pellets (bags from the local store).
I haven’t dewormed the chickens since last winter when I noticed wormy feces, and I also treated the whole flock for coccidiosis last summer due to sick pullets. No loss or issues since then besides an old hen having to be put down a few months ago.
Issues I feel need mentioned: 1. my neighbor lost a chicken to an unknown illness to die with breathing issues last week.
2. There is a dead dove by the coop that one of the birds picks up and moved but did not eat.
3. It looked like there was straw from their nesting boxes in his mouth and the chickens had drank all the water in the coop since my daughter gave them some this morning, but I’m unsure if the straw was from when my husband removed him from the coop.
My husband buried him already because I have such a fear of illness spreading to my kids so I can’t have him tested
Here are the pictures of his body. I welcome any input. My neighbor thinks he couldn’t breath, but I didn’t notice him struggling at all recently besides the missing tail feathers.
