What to do with my rooster

[cchicks4]

I currently have 6 hens and 1 rooster. I am moving away in 3 weeks and have rehomed my hens to loving homes. However, my Ayam Cemani rooster has some sort of chronic sneeze that it quite noticeable. He has been treated by the vet with various antibitoics therefore I believe it is viral or even allergies? ( if that’s possible?) . He’s had it for almost 2 months .. no hens have gotten anything from him and it doesn’t seem to bother him at all. He goes about with his normal routine. I’m just having troubles rehoming him because of it.. should I continue to try to find a home for him? He’s completely healthy and beautiful otherwise.

 

[ashlierami]

I currently have 6 hens and 1 rooster. I am moving away in 3 weeks and have rehomed my hens to loving homes. However, my Ayam Cemani rooster has some sort of chronic sneeze that it quite noticeable. He has been treated by the vet with various antibitoics therefore I believe it is viral or even allergies? ( if that’s possible?) . He’s had it for almost 2 months .. no hens have gotten anything from him and it doesn’t seem to bother him at all. He goes about with his normal routine. I’m just having troubles rehoming him because of it.. should I continue to try to find a home for him? He’s completely healthy and beautiful otherwise.

What did the vet diagnose him with? Are there specific times he does this? My roo sneezes due to the powder in the feed I put them on. At first I thought he was ill but I noticed he only does it when he eats the feed. He shovels it in and the powder makes him sneeze. I've heard of MG being associated with sneezing (as told by my vet) . I had a quail that had MS and she was given antibiotics. She is a carrier for life and has "outbreaks" every so often and I have to give her medicine to her and it subsides for awhile. I can understand why people would be afraid to take him. It's the unknown factor of what if he's contagious to other birds he comes in contact with and how will those birds handle it. It could be allergies and nothing to worry about or could be something deeper.

 

[aart]

I currently have 6 hens and 1 rooster. I am moving away in 3 weeks and have rehomed my hens to loving homes. However, my Ayam Cemani rooster has some sort of chronic sneeze that it quite noticeable. He has been treated by the vet with various antibitoics therefore I believe it is viral or even allergies? ( if that’s possible?) . He’s had it for almost 2 months .. no hens have gotten anything from him and it doesn’t seem to bother him at all. He goes about with his normal routine. I’m just having troubles rehoming him because of it.. should I continue to try to find a home for him? He’s completely healthy and beautiful otherwise.

Did the vet do a swab to diagnose?
If rooster was living with hens, they've been exposed too....IF it is a disease.
Males are hard to get rid of, everyone already has too many,
tho I would think an Ayam Cemani might be a desired breed.

 

[cchicks4]

Did the vet do a swab to diagnose?
If rooster was living with hens, they've been exposed too....IF it is a disease.
Males are hard to get rid of, everyone already has too many,
tho I would think an Ayam Cemani might be a desired breed.

No not going to lie I didn’t continue with the vet treatment just because it was expensive. I’m from Canada. She first said it was probably just a bacterial infection and gave me antibiotics for that (2 weeks) which didn’t seem to work. He’s a very pretty bird. I just don’t know what to do with him. Should I advertise him on our local Facebook page that he has a sneeze but is fine otherwise? Ayam Cemani are an expensive breed. Maybe someone will want him for free with whatever he has.

 

[Geena]

IMO you should not re-home him, even for free. It's very likely someone will take him, because of his breed, and then possibly infect their whole flock with a chronic respiratory problem. I know you wouldn't want that to happen.

 

[Mrs. K]

Post him on craigs list and do not ask questions.

 

[cchicks4]

Post him on craigs list and do not ask questions.

As sick?

 

[cchicks4]

IMO you should not re-home him, even for free. It's very likely someone will take him, because of his breed, and then possibly infect their whole flock with a chronic respiratory problem. I know you wouldn't want that to happen.

That’s the issue though. I’m moving to the US from Canada. I need to get rid of him

 

[Biddybot]

Offer him as-is and disclose the sneezing problem to anyone who shows up to look at him. BUT also stress that whatever his problem, it does not seem to be bacterial in nature, that he is an otherwise lively, healthy bird, AND, most importantly, that the other chickens he lived with never showed similar symptoms, ie. not contagious and possibly just allergies. Then it's up to the person looking at him.

Personally, I'd take a chance on an otherwise healthy wheezy bird and have. The one I bought, an adult hen, lived five additional years with me and never passed on her problem. She sounded like an avian asthmatic at times, but seemed to enjoy life nonetheless and was the meanest, bossiest hen in the flock while she lived.

 

[Shadrach]

If there is any doubt regarding the health of your rooster then imo it is irresponsible to pass him on to anyone else.
One of the problems with the current craze of backyard chicken keeping is that some breeders and owners knowingly or through ignorance and/or negligence pass on sick fowl and diseases such as Mareks are spread at an alarming rate through the chicken population. So few people are prepared or equipped to take adequate quarantine measures.
Imo your choices are take the rooster with you or kill him.