3 or 4 year old rooster is it wry neck?

[karenerwin]

I don't know how well you can see it in these pictures but my Americauana rooster just suddenly can't hold his head up. His neck & head are completely twisted so that his head is upside down. His neck is very floppy. He was fine this morning. but then this evening he was lying on the floor of his coop instead of being on the roost. At first I thought the pink spot in the 2nd picture was an injury, but now I think it might just be a swelling area.

Any ideas??

 

[Eggcessive]

Amoxiicillin or clavamox, or SMZ-TMP would be good for an ear infection if you have a local vet that might prescribe those. The latter is a sulfa antibiotic. Sulmet from the feed store is the the same as sulfamethazine or SMZ. SMZ-TMP is the same as Bactrim for humans. Dawg53 has several good posts about ear infections and gunky ears.

 

[Blooie]

I am so sorry. When I saw that you had posted this evening I was hoping it was for a far different reason. You sure did everything you could - there just comes a time when you have to say "Enough" and you are a compassionate woman for knowing when that time had come. Wish I had some feel-better words but I hope just knowing others cared as much as you did helps.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm so sorry. Sometimes as much as we want to, we just can't fix them.

 

[Blooie]

I don't know what it could be, but that spot in the second picture does look like some kind of injury to me. I'm no expert, and obviously I'm not there looking at it first hand, but it looks that way to me - especially if it came on that fast. I'm sorry, I wish I had some answer for you, but keep us posted, will you please?

 

[karenerwin]

I don't know what it could be, but that spot in the second picture does look like some kind of injury to me. I'm no expert, and obviously I'm not there looking at it first hand, but it looks that way to me - especially if it came on that fast. I'm sorry, I wish I had some answer for you, but keep us posted, will you please?

Thanks Blooie. The spot isn't bloody, which is what made me change my mind about it being an injury. I went out and bought liquid vitamin D3 and liquid vitamin E oil. I couldn't find any polysol vitamins. I'm going to try to get the D & E in him and see if that helps. I figure it can't hurt.

 

[Blooie]

Well, I'll be watching. Poor baby!

 

[karenerwin]

He took the vitamin D3 & vitamin E eagerly. I feel so bad for him, he can't even get his feet under him because his neck is so twisted. He is so different from the magnificent & proud rooster he was this morning.
He eats egg layer feed with his girls and also has time everyday to free range in a fenced part yard, part wooded area. He has access to plenty of clean water. All of his girls are fine, so I don't think it was anything he might have eaten.

 

[Blooie]

Is a puzzlement!

 

[karenerwin]

Here is what he normally looks like.