Rooster dropping head and constantly swallowing

[Eggcessive]

Poor guy. If he has canker, that can be treated with metronidazole which you can find online. If you have a trusted vet you may be able to get him seen, and get a diagnosis. Here is where to get metronidazole, but a vet may be quicker:
https://jedds.com/products/metronid...YY_2Zj5TCHVTl5dhvJ45nol5HQS7pfw1RkN8y-0-5VF05
Dosage is 250 mg daily for 5 days.

 

[SkyAJK]

Poor guy. If he has canker, that can be treated with metronidazole which you can find online. If you have a trusted vet you may be able to get him seen, and get a diagnosis. Here is where to get metronidazole, but a vet may be quicker:
https://jedds.com/products/metronid...YY_2Zj5TCHVTl5dhvJ45nol5HQS7pfw1RkN8y-0-5VF05
Dosage is 250 mg daily for 5 days.

I have been mad with reading to find out what he has is canker or wet fowl pox? That little bit of yellow cheese cooking inside his mouth could be canker/wet fowl pox. Both of these did not mention head drop like what my rooster is doing.

It is very costly to go to the vet, and the vet I got is my dog's vet, he rarely treat chickens so I am reluctant to take my rooster there as any guess work would be expensive.

How I can identify what I see in my rooster mouth is canker or wet fowl pox?

 

[Eggcessive]

Wet pox should be considered if you have seen any fowl prowl scabs in your chickens. Have mosquitoes been a problem? If not, canker is a common disease where pigeons or wild birds get into your feeders and waterers, or if chickens are drinking out of standing water. Metronidazole is a good treatment for canker. Wet fowl pox is a virus, and antibiotics won’t treat it. Here is some reading about canker:
https://poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

 

[SkyAJK]

Wet pox should be considered if you have seen any fowl prowl scabs in your chickens. Have mosquitoes been a problem? If not, canker is a common disease where pigeons or wild birds get into your feeders and waterers, or if chickens are drinking out of standing water. Metronidazole is a good treatment for canker. Wet fowl pox is a virus, and antibiotics won’t treat it.

We are in summer season here and mosquito is a big thing at night. With many rain these last few months there are an increase in mosquito.

Adding to that, we also have crows that come to eat chicken feed although I chase them away. Occasionally a pigeon couples that also got chased away.

I don't know if my rooster has fowl prowl scabs because some of the hens pecked at his comb and sometime there are blood and the scabs are of those. He willingly let them do it so I thought it was their grooming way.

Metronidazole is a subscription drug over here.

I want to treat my rooster, but I need to find the most effective way of doing it. I don't want to have that massive expense then come home with a dead chicken as that happened to me before already.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sorry to hear he's declining, he's a big beautiful boy.

Do you have a fish supply store or pigeon supply? Metronidazole is sometimes called Flagyl or Fish Zole.

Another option would be to use Acidified Copper Sulfate.

 

[SkyAJK]

Sorry to hear he's declining, he's a big beautiful boy.

Do you have a fish supply store or pigeon supply? Metronidazole is sometimes called Flagyl or Fish Zole.

Another option would be to use Acidified Copper Sulfate.

I will look into that right now for pigeon supply as the produce stores here stock animal products and I saw many medication for birds that are not chicken. There is an Aquarian store near my home so I will check with them as well.

 

[SkyAJK]

Thank you both for your help.

I would like to update

I can not find Flagyl or Fish Zole, the ornament birds medication is active ingredient is Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride. Might be we have different medication in Australia?

He could have canker or wet fowl pox. My head is so dense with worry that I can not clearly see much of this at the moment. I have fear now that whatever he is having will be showing on the rest of my flock in a week or so time.

Yesterday evening I gave my roo 30ml of Mavlab Oxymav B, crush garlic and VetRx on his face and nose.

By late afternoon yesterday, he was laying on the floor, head down and mouth opened.

This morning he stretched his wings, groomed himself, crowed and crowed with many broken sound. He did eat a bit, still have some issues with swallowing, crop emptied, no mucus in his mouth.
Head held steady for a bit, then dropped again half way. It seems that he is improving a little bit.

This morning I gave him 15ml of Mavlab Oxymav B, crush garlic and VetRx. Then put him back to his bed with classical music on the radio. He is crowing loudly, his voice can break the sky sometimes.

For the rest of today, he will have 15ml of Mavlab Oxymav B every 3 hours.

We are having pouring rain here, so he has to be confined all day. I hope he is continues to improve from here.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Could be he has a bacterial infection of some sort since he's showing some improvement with the Oxymav.

You had mentioned he had ear infection previously, perhaps this is all related to a respiratory disease.

Hopefully he'll improve more.

 

[SkyAJK]

Could be he has a bacterial infection of some sort since he's showing some improvement with the Oxymav.

You had mentioned he had ear infection previously, perhaps this is all related to a respiratory disease.

Hopefully he'll improve more.

I am taking him to the Vet later today.

His tongue has 2 separate pieces, the front and the back piece are not continuous 1 piece. I have not seen this from him before.

When I give him his medication, the front part of his tongue lift up blocking the airway. This front piece of his tongue has a V shape at the end. I don't think this is a normal structure so I need to take him to the vet for this, hump back, swallowing problem and med to treat his canker.

The rest of my flock could be showing sign of canker sometime soon as I did not isolate my roo until later, they might be infected as well. I am go to the VET now then later on I can ask for more med for the flock without coming to see the VET so to avoid the cost of consultation fee for every single one of my chickens. I am hoping the Vet is more incline to accept this process of not seeing the rest of my flock.

He is much better now since this morning. He eats & drink more, more alert, crows. However, his head still drop to the ground, he has hump on his back and he still have problem swallowing.

He looks at me with his eye saying are you doing something about this?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

His tongue has 2 separate pieces, the front and the back piece are not continuous 1 piece. I have not seen this from him before.

When I give him his medication, the front part of his tongue lift up blocking the airway. This front piece of his tongue has a V shape at the end. I don't think this is normal structure so I need to take him to the vet for this, hump back, swallowing problem and med to treat his canker.

I'm glad you will be seeing the vet.

Hopefully they can diagnose this and give you the correct medications, please let us know what you find out.


What the inside of a beak should look like.

Photo references:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/