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[jajeanpierre]

Many someone can help: I'm selling the roo through a poultry buy sell trade page on facebook. I don't really feel like I should "sell" him but I guess I also worry about cockfighting. Any tips? Or is it out of my hands

Grow him up and slaughter him yourself because in all likelihood, that is what is happening to him. At least you know he had a good life and you can ensure he has a calm death. It is very unlikely he will find a home, other than someone's pot. It might as well be your pot.

I just finished processing three 10-month old Ameraucana cockerels I had been putting off slaughtering. I finally got around to it this morning. I am THE Queen of excuses for not processing my birds. My latest was by far my best excuse--I had cervical spinal fusion less than 6 weeks ago and I am still in a hard plastic neck brace.

It might be possible for you to find someone to process him for you. Before I got chickens, I did that but it fell through. I ended up slaughtering a few of my excess cockerels myself, and now this last bunch. Believe me, I will never again leave cockerels as long as I left these ones.

There is a group on BYC called: Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

That group will help people l like you and me through the whole process, including the emotional journey. The more I've learned about slaughter, particularly chicken slaughter, the more determined I am to get over myself and provide 100% of my chicken meat myself. Besides it being a health issue, it is also an issue about animal welfare. I'm not there yet, but I'm a lot closer.

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Sorry to hear you fell. The only thing good about Falling ... is falling in love

I fell in love and now my heart is shattered.

Lucky!

I would keep him if the city allowed it! I think he'll be really pretty and I've noticed he's already a good "lookout" lol

I wonder if you could have his voicebox removed so he can't crow.....

 

[jajeanpierre]

Does anyone know what this is? Large swollen nodules. She's an 8 month old Ameracauna.

That's a sinus infection I think. There are a lot of diseases it could be, some extremely serious. Make sure no one with chickens comes to your property and you don't go to theirs.

She is not an Ameraucana--there are not Ameraucanas her color. She's an Easter Egger, which probably lays more and bigger eggs than purebred Ameraucanas.

Hope it is nothing serious. You can put her on antibiotics. I would recommend Tylan because it also works on Mycoplasma bacteria, with amoxicillin doesn't touch. When you mix it up, you need to add a LOT of sugar to the water--at least 6 tablespoons per quart. You can't use the eggs with Tylan for a while. The withdrawal for slaughter with Tylan is 24 hours, but Turkeys are five days. When my chickens were on it, I fed their eggs to the dogs for a good week after I stopped the antibiotic as well as when they were being treated. PM me and I'll go over the dosage, which I got from an avian vet.

 

[jajeanpierre]

I fell in love and now my heart is shattered.

I wonder if you could have his voicebox removed so he can't crow.....

That's not something you can do easily in birds, believe me. Their "voice box" is their syrinx, which is deep in their bodies. I asked an avian vet about it and the answer is no. There is a vet who does it somewhere in the midwest, I think, but it is not cheap nor risk free. It is nothing like debarking a dog.

 

[Millieflower]

Newer pictures.

 

[Millieflower]

She's been on Denagard, Solumet, Tetracycline, & Enrofloxain (prescribed by Vet).

 

[jajeanpierre]

She's been on Denagard, Solumet, Tetracycline, & (prescribed by Vet).

Try Tylan. I don't think any of those antibiotics treat Mycoplasma-type infections. My avian vet felt Tylan was the drug of choice. A bottle at the feed store is about $50 or $55, at the vet's more. If you buy the bottle of Elanco, that reads "Equivalent to 100g tylosin base, that's the same as I used and I can give you the mixing ratios.

 

[jajeanpierre]

Newer pictures.

Those fluid pockets are infection from her sinuses. She has some sort of upper respiratory infection that might or might not be in her lungs/air sacs. BUT, I see she has her mouth closed, so she is not struggling to breathe.

 

[hensfortherapy]

I stink at sharing links, but the Chicken Whisper is having a contest and giving away a cool coop.

 

[hensfortherapy]

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You already know it Is a roo?