My step dad lives in the middle of nowhere down here in St. George Utah. Drive 15 minutes into the desert and you're about half way lol. Anywho there's a ranch type thing a bout 5 minutes or so before his property. No house just a few horses and cows that range on the pastures. There's a covered barn for both cows and horses. There are also a bunch of extremely ragged chickens running around with a few rooster that match their ragged look if not worse. They are just a barnyard mix, having been running around that property breeding and growing for years and years and years.
Well today I was driving and I saw a rooster caught up in some rubber fencing stuff. His claw things were all tangled in it. I went to his aide and got him loose but now when he walks one leg sort of gives out half way through and he tumbles to one side. I looked him over and there's no obvious breaks and besides having horrible scaly feet and crazy long claw things his legs and feet look normal.
I brought him home and he's in a make shift hospital right now but I don't know if I should try to bring him back to health or cull him and put him out of his misery. It really doesn't seem like his leg is that bad. A little R&R may help it, but the rest of him is in rough shape.
He's just been sleeping pretty much since I got him here 2 hours ago. I don't think he got in the coop last night. His comb was blackened but it's red now mostly except in a few spots.
He's got a total of 3 tail feathers.
He's missing a lot of feathers and must have been getting picked on because he's covered in scabs. This is the worst of them in the picture below.
You can see some blackened spots on his cob but when I picked him up about half of it was black. . . .
He started drinking some water a minute ago but hasn't touched the food yet.
Any advice or recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
Well today I was driving and I saw a rooster caught up in some rubber fencing stuff. His claw things were all tangled in it. I went to his aide and got him loose but now when he walks one leg sort of gives out half way through and he tumbles to one side. I looked him over and there's no obvious breaks and besides having horrible scaly feet and crazy long claw things his legs and feet look normal.
I brought him home and he's in a make shift hospital right now but I don't know if I should try to bring him back to health or cull him and put him out of his misery. It really doesn't seem like his leg is that bad. A little R&R may help it, but the rest of him is in rough shape.
He's just been sleeping pretty much since I got him here 2 hours ago. I don't think he got in the coop last night. His comb was blackened but it's red now mostly except in a few spots.
He's got a total of 3 tail feathers.
He's missing a lot of feathers and must have been getting picked on because he's covered in scabs. This is the worst of them in the picture below.
You can see some blackened spots on his cob but when I picked him up about half of it was black. . . .
He started drinking some water a minute ago but hasn't touched the food yet.
Any advice or recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
