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So the one rooster I thought would be dead when we got home is still alive. We're going to medicate the water and let everyone have the antibiotics in case it's a contagious form of conjunctivitis. That one rooster has pus all in his head. It's swelled up and you can see the pus in his mouth. I'd like to know what hit them so fast.
 
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None of the eggs developed. Doesn't look like they were fertile. None of the chicken eggs ever developed either. Nada.
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Oh, that is so sad. I don't understand it, my duck eggs have veins and are developing. Where did you get the chicken eggs from? Were they the ones you got in Blue Ridge? Is your incubator set right?

What is going on with your chickens? Do you know what they have? Not sure I ever heard about anything that fills their heads with pus? Sounds awful. Do you need help looking it up on the internet?
 
RoboDuck said:
So the one rooster I thought would be dead when we got home is still alive. We're going to medicate the water and let everyone have the antibiotics in case it's a contagious form of conjunctivitis. That one rooster has pus all in his head. It's swelled up and you can see the pus in his mouth. I'd like to know what hit them so fast.
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Avian Rhinotracheitis 'Swollen Head Syndrome'?
 
Lost a lot of time recently, and need to make up for it. Today, I kept my promise of getting new goose/duck photos. Unfortunately, it was a big challenge avoiding the trash in my sister's yard, but I think I have some usable ones. Tomorrow I will download them from the camera to the computer and post them.

Also tomorrow, I have to go in to work for paperwork. I plan to take a gosling with me to show everyone while I am there. They all saw the incoming eggs, so I have to show off the results.

And I think I found the solution on how to stop losing baby chicks. I have to go out to the pen every night and move several of them from the dark, chilly corner, and put them under the heat lamp. The cornish rocks get it. But the valuable chicks meant for future breeding or selling, just don't understand it is warmer there. Go figure!
 
RoboDuck said:
That one rooster has pus all in his head.  It's swelled up and you can see the pus in his mouth.  I'd like to know what hit them so fast. 
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Are you sure it's not an injury? Is he having any noisy breathing with it, like a stuffed nose?

Y'all might laugh at me, but with my sister's recent cornish rocks falling ill, plus the exposed skull of Phoenix, and the other issues around here, I actually put a sign on my bedroom door that said "Bird Hospital: Births, Deaths, Injuries, and Illness - we handle it all!"
 
Both of GAM's big Marans roosters had their right eyes shut and full of pus yesterday. We caught them and cleaned them and got their eyes open. Today they both had both eyes shut. Broke butt was very lethargic and you could see that white nasty pus in his mouth. If what flower posted is what they have, it's viral and I don't suspect broke butt is going to make it. Whatever it is has hit him harder than the other one. At least he still has one eye open and is up and walking around. Broke butt just takes a few blind steps at a time and bumps into stuff. It's kinda like watching an old blind dog try to get around after rearranging the furniture.
 
RoboDuck said:
Both of GAM's big Marans roosters had their right eyes shut and full of pus yesterday.  We caught them and cleaned them and got their eyes open.  Today they both had both eyes shut.  Broke butt was very lethargic and you could see that white nasty pus in his mouth.  If what flower posted is what they have, it's viral and I don't suspect broke butt is going to make it.  Whatever it is has hit him harder than the other one.  At least he still has one eye open and is up and walking around.  Broke butt just takes a few blind steps at a time and bumps into stuff.  It's kinda like watching an old blind dog try to get around after rearranging the furniture.
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I'm not sure how much you want to hold on to him and keep him, but to give him the best chance, you'd need to separate him and give him a low heat source. Then start him on antibiotic injections. Penicillin-G is best, 1 full cc (ml) once per day for at least four days. Keep his eye clean enough that he can open it, and make sure the feathers on his back stay clean too (they often bury their face on their back feathers when they sleep, and make it all gunked up too). Once his eye can open, offer food and water. If he eats or drinks, he'll be fine. Willingly eating or drinking means they are pretty far from the end of their road, and not ready to give up yet. If not, then you might lose him. But its best that he is given access to food and water when he is alone, so he can see it, and doesn't get pushed away.

The low heat source helps "create" a fever like we humans get when we have the flu. And that can kill a virus.

So no need to write him off just yet, unless you want to. All of mine have had very similar symptoms before (after adding chicks from you-know-who) and survived it.

Now if I could just stop possums, raccoons, and foxes from getting them...
 
I'll let GAM make those decisions about his care.

But on the predator note.... we have been losing birds almost on a daily basis. The injuries haven't been consistent so I don't know if it's different predators or one just doing what he can to catch birds and causing different injuries. We have started locking the white birds (the most visible) under large crates at night. Tonight I put a camera in the pen to see if I can get pictures of what's getting in there. We'll see what happens.
 

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