Sick Rooster?

[Kbarth255]

Hi everyone. I picked up 6 hens and a rooster 8 days ago. Everything was fine the first 5 days but a couple of days ago my rooster was closing his eyes right before everyone was going to roost. I thought he was just tired. Yesterday morning he was doing the same thing- not eating, and even walking around with his eyes closed. I isolated him in his own pen to track his poops. After isolation he perked up, but I suspect from the separation from his girls. His comb is still red. Now the poops in his pen range from yellow and loose to green and solid. I fed him a scrambled egg- regular feed with garlic and oregano- and added ACV to his water. His butt does have white poop on it, and in between his toes seems to be red. Not sure if it’s from the cold ground of the pen, or something else. I didn’t see anything on his foot yesterday (to indicate bumble foot), he is also not lifting it and walking fine.

 

[azygous]

All these new chickens should be treated for possible coccidiosis from being imported to soil different from what they came from. There is a five to seven day incubation of the new coccidia imported into their intestines by being on new soil for illness to manifest.

The treatment is a coccidiostat, brand name Corid in the US, you might have different labels where you are. This is a thiamine blocker which coccdia parasites need to complete their life cycle. It's given for five days, a week off, and then given for another five days.

The rooster or any other very sick chicken can be given a drench dose in addition to the mix in the drinking water. That dose is undiluted cocidiostat at .1ml per pound of body weight once a day for three days, given into the beak via oral syringe.