Oh, BTW
Morning everyone!
Morning everyone!
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You know my turkey is still broody.
Maybe she had the right idea - spend all of fall and winter holed up in a small, warm nesting box... with a bad attitude.
Maybe she had the right idea - spend all of fall and winter holed up in a small, warm nesting box... with a bad attitude.
I just had one of my silly roosters go feet up and die on me. I've lost two roosters to seizures in the past year. The one I lost last year may have been this one's son. This is the rooster I mentioned sometime back about him getting so panicked that he would spin around on one shoulder. This morning I found him sitting in coop on the floor. I picked him up, carried him outside and put him down in the grass and he immediately started to spin again but settled down. I left him there, had breakfast, went out to put medicine in their water as I have been treating another rooster for some weird throat infection that seems to be responding to the antibiotics and no other chicken have come up sick, just him. I found J.R. wedged between a fence panel and the coop and when I picked him up he was semi conscious at best, cyanotic, breathing slightly labored so I knew there was only one outcome. He passed away in my lap about 15 minutes later. He was what passed for normal for him last night with no signs of the end being eminent. I had a 7 month old die the same way last year only I put him down when he was seizing continuously. I must have some weird gene thing going on in my BO roosters. They are the only ones affected by this. Hens all fat and sassy but the roosters are lucky to make it past 14 months. So far I've lost three roosters in this bloodline without knowing what weird genetic defect is causing it. One thing for certain, I'm not hatching out any more of their eggs.
I hate it when Sundays start out like this.
Fly free J.R. You were a good rooster.
I hate it when Sundays start out like this.
Fly free J.R. You were a good rooster.
That is so sad. I hate it when you can't help them.
I am sorry you lost them and agree once is horrible but three
of the same line like huh
A necropsy is in order. Even if it costs in the $80.00 range, then you would know what happened. Roosters do not get layer rations at your place? Kidney damage can cause problems like you describe and some breeds are more susceptable to kidney damage.
Regardless, a necropsy would let you know.
Sorry for your loss!
Thanks everyone. No, Ronott1, my flock gets Game Bird finisher crumbles and the hens get oyster shell on the side. I wormed on the third with Safe Guard and in January they got Corid. This has only happened to mature cockerels/roosters over one year and one 7 moth old cockerel.
I dump any feed that looks even damp. They do not free range so no chance of them getting into anything.
Kidney failure huh? Interesting. That is the one thing I didn't hit on while googling their symptoms. I'll look into it.
I dump any feed that looks even damp. They do not free range so no chance of them getting into anything.
Kidney failure huh? Interesting. That is the one thing I didn't hit on while googling their symptoms. I'll look into it.
I have had a couple of BAs die of liver rupture. Sudden death is often either cardiovascular or organ related. Kidney failure causes toxins to build up and kill them so it is similar to eating a poison.
Of course some type of poison could cause this but it does not sound like it.
Can you get a necropsy service from a local vet school? We get them here in California with a cost of $20.00. It used to be free.
Our nearest teaching college is at MIZOU down in Columbia. I would have to contact them to see if they do necropsys on chickens. It's a vast wasteland where we live as far as Avian vets being near by. Our local vet will treat Emus and Ostriches but not chickens. I'm sure if I'd been able to get him to at least see my three roosters that I've lost they would have had a chance to be alive today. But he refused. Right now, I have one full blooded Buff O rooster that is 14 months old and so far the picture of health. Then there is the one I am treating for some sort of throat infection. The rest of my roosters are BO Welsummer crosses and are big robust boys and my OEGB cockerels who are just tough little mobsters. My plan is to eventually just have bantams as they seem to be the healthiest of the group next to the Welsummers.
Today J.R. kept loosing his balance and was unable to walk a straight line without staggering all over. Since he was mainly going to the left all the time I was suspecting some sort of brain disorder-stroke, tumor, etc.
I googled everything I could think of and no symptoms matched up with anything solid. Iris color was a good mustard orange like all Buff O's eyes. No paralysis. No eye or nose drainage. Some mucous in his mouth when he was actively dying. Just these bizarre seizures. I was really surprised to see how much he had worn down his flight feathers. He had to have been seizing a lot at night because I was outside in their coop much of the past two days doing work out there and I think I saw him have one only once and then he snapped right out of it.
Today J.R. kept loosing his balance and was unable to walk a straight line without staggering all over. Since he was mainly going to the left all the time I was suspecting some sort of brain disorder-stroke, tumor, etc.
I googled everything I could think of and no symptoms matched up with anything solid. Iris color was a good mustard orange like all Buff O's eyes. No paralysis. No eye or nose drainage. Some mucous in his mouth when he was actively dying. Just these bizarre seizures. I was really surprised to see how much he had worn down his flight feathers. He had to have been seizing a lot at night because I was outside in their coop much of the past two days doing work out there and I think I saw him have one only once and then he snapped right out of it.
@superchemicalgirl and @Cynthia12 congrats on your seven year badges! 
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