beautifulchick
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- May 12, 2024
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Hi everyone! I hope you can help me with my bantam cockerel, he is 11 months old and is getting weaker everyday.
Weather:
- Spring 30°C (hot), this month there were very bad quality air because there are fires around the town.
Symptons:
a) open his beak like something is dificult to pass. 1st sympton since around 2 months ago but increasing slowly and now is very often
b) shaking his head
c) scratching his ears, lately seems like is scratching his neck but I don't know if it's only because is weak and can't reach his ear sometimes.
d) go to sleep at 4pm
e) letargic, takes snaps in the day sometimes alone, sometimes besides the pullets
f) earwax (very little) it used to have a ligth smell almost imperceptible, but now I don't smell it
g) he eats just a little since 3 days ago, and today I didn't saw him drink water, so I give him vitamins with water in his beak
h) sometimes he makes a sound like a cuack, it's not always the same sound and sadly I've never witnessed that moment because he just make those sounds a few times a day.
i) I've notice him sneezing very ligthly a few times past week but not lately.
j) the back and upper part of his comb is blue/purple in the morning, around 3 days ago was like that almost all day and it was a hot day, only became full red when he was in the sun.
k) few and little poop usually green maybe because he is not eating too much, sometimes his urates were watery and with some bubbles and today it was like grilled cheese(?)
l) I saw a bit of mucus in their beak, and sometimes I see him like he is murmuring, I think it's related.
He used to do a, c and b in that order and since yesterday a) is made alone more than b and c
Feed
- Grower feed and grains, since a week ago he is almost not touching the grower feed and eating mostly grains, I've gave him eggs, meat and fruits because of that. He forage in the backyard so he eats grass too and maybe some bugs, or maybe not because everything he give them to pullets.
Leave him only with the grower feed is not an option because I don't trust any place here where I buy the feed.
Another information
- Coop/run? No, he free range in the backyard.
- Wormed? yes, September 11 his 2nd dose of praziquantel
- Odor from beak? No
- Ulcer or wound? No, as long as I can notice
- Swollen? No, as long as I can notice
- Runny nose? No, as long as I can notice
- Eye discharge? No
- I have another rooster with a,b,c,f symptons that doesn't share the same space, however he was with symptons before this cockerel and that time I just cleaned his ears with wet cotton and a bit of hydrogen peroxide because I thinked it was only an ear infection and I thinked he was cured, because I didn't see any symptons in a week but later the symptons came back then I cleaned his ears with wet cotton only and gave him enrofloxacine 10% and nothing changed, that was I keep cleaning his ears sometimes because they are in dirt and I thinked it was the dust maybe, only one ear has smell, however he does not look letargic, he was the last one before the symptons and now is the alfa in his run.
- Past sunday I notice his flock is opening their beak, scratching their ear, sneezing and shaking his head sometimes, mostly is scratching their ear, I notice only because I was almost all day watching them because they just made it twice, no sign of earwax on them.
Treatments:
I made a treatment with antiinflamatory, antibacterial, antimicotic eardrops, when I thinked it was only ear infection in early september for 5 days.
Previous illness
When I get him in February he ran a little and was breathing like he ran 100mts, it was very concerning, he has learning to sing and his singing it was very raspy and sometimes his voice dissapeared, sometimes their breathing was awful in the
nights, I gave him enrofloxacine 10% but nothing happened, all this symptons dissapear in May just by itself, I supposed it was a virus. I worm him in february too because he had roundworms.
Vet is not an option.
Thank you in advance!
Weather:
- Spring 30°C (hot), this month there were very bad quality air because there are fires around the town.
Symptons:
a) open his beak like something is dificult to pass. 1st sympton since around 2 months ago but increasing slowly and now is very often
b) shaking his head
c) scratching his ears, lately seems like is scratching his neck but I don't know if it's only because is weak and can't reach his ear sometimes.
d) go to sleep at 4pm
e) letargic, takes snaps in the day sometimes alone, sometimes besides the pullets
f) earwax (very little) it used to have a ligth smell almost imperceptible, but now I don't smell it
g) he eats just a little since 3 days ago, and today I didn't saw him drink water, so I give him vitamins with water in his beak
h) sometimes he makes a sound like a cuack, it's not always the same sound and sadly I've never witnessed that moment because he just make those sounds a few times a day.
i) I've notice him sneezing very ligthly a few times past week but not lately.
j) the back and upper part of his comb is blue/purple in the morning, around 3 days ago was like that almost all day and it was a hot day, only became full red when he was in the sun.
k) few and little poop usually green maybe because he is not eating too much, sometimes his urates were watery and with some bubbles and today it was like grilled cheese(?)
l) I saw a bit of mucus in their beak, and sometimes I see him like he is murmuring, I think it's related.
He used to do a, c and b in that order and since yesterday a) is made alone more than b and c
Feed
- Grower feed and grains, since a week ago he is almost not touching the grower feed and eating mostly grains, I've gave him eggs, meat and fruits because of that. He forage in the backyard so he eats grass too and maybe some bugs, or maybe not because everything he give them to pullets.
Leave him only with the grower feed is not an option because I don't trust any place here where I buy the feed.
Another information
- Coop/run? No, he free range in the backyard.
- Wormed? yes, September 11 his 2nd dose of praziquantel
- Odor from beak? No
- Ulcer or wound? No, as long as I can notice
- Swollen? No, as long as I can notice
- Runny nose? No, as long as I can notice
- Eye discharge? No
- I have another rooster with a,b,c,f symptons that doesn't share the same space, however he was with symptons before this cockerel and that time I just cleaned his ears with wet cotton and a bit of hydrogen peroxide because I thinked it was only an ear infection and I thinked he was cured, because I didn't see any symptons in a week but later the symptons came back then I cleaned his ears with wet cotton only and gave him enrofloxacine 10% and nothing changed, that was I keep cleaning his ears sometimes because they are in dirt and I thinked it was the dust maybe, only one ear has smell, however he does not look letargic, he was the last one before the symptons and now is the alfa in his run.
- Past sunday I notice his flock is opening their beak, scratching their ear, sneezing and shaking his head sometimes, mostly is scratching their ear, I notice only because I was almost all day watching them because they just made it twice, no sign of earwax on them.
Treatments:
I made a treatment with antiinflamatory, antibacterial, antimicotic eardrops, when I thinked it was only ear infection in early september for 5 days.
Previous illness
When I get him in February he ran a little and was breathing like he ran 100mts, it was very concerning, he has learning to sing and his singing it was very raspy and sometimes his voice dissapeared, sometimes their breathing was awful in the
nights, I gave him enrofloxacine 10% but nothing happened, all this symptons dissapear in May just by itself, I supposed it was a virus. I worm him in february too because he had roundworms.
Vet is not an option.
Thank you in advance!
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