- Dec 24, 2009
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Any ideas on what happened to my rooster?
Imagine my suprise when I came home yesterday to find my white rock rooster (around 8 months old) dead in one of my nesting boxes. He was a very active rooster with no signs of sickness. There was no blood. Though his legs seemed to be affected by rigor mortis, his head was able to flop around. I thought that maybe his neck was broken, but perhaps rigor mortis does not affect the neck like the rest of the body.
The most unusual thing to me is that I can't imagine why he was in the nesting box at all. His rear was in the air, almost like a hen laying eggs. And there were the usual number of eggs lying next to him.
Any ideas?
Imagine my suprise when I came home yesterday to find my white rock rooster (around 8 months old) dead in one of my nesting boxes. He was a very active rooster with no signs of sickness. There was no blood. Though his legs seemed to be affected by rigor mortis, his head was able to flop around. I thought that maybe his neck was broken, but perhaps rigor mortis does not affect the neck like the rest of the body.
The most unusual thing to me is that I can't imagine why he was in the nesting box at all. His rear was in the air, almost like a hen laying eggs. And there were the usual number of eggs lying next to him.
Any ideas?