Last night when I was taking care of my stock, I noticed one of my breeding toms was laying down, unusual for mating season. I went in his tractor, and he stood up when I touched him. He seemed a tad lethargic, but nothing extreme. He wasn’t strutting at all, which concerned me a bit, and he didn’t gobble when I tried to get him to.
I noticed a single instance of yellow diarrhea on the ground when I moved the tractor. There was no sign of any more. Fearing the dreaded blackhead, I planned to go out this morning to see if I could find any medication. Before I left, though, I went to his tractor and found him lying there dead.
He was a big, beautiful, healthy Narragansett. He would have been two years old in May. Would blackhead have killed him so quickly?
I noticed a single instance of yellow diarrhea on the ground when I moved the tractor. There was no sign of any more. Fearing the dreaded blackhead, I planned to go out this morning to see if I could find any medication. Before I left, though, I went to his tractor and found him lying there dead.
He was a big, beautiful, healthy Narragansett. He would have been two years old in May. Would blackhead have killed him so quickly?
