My Rooster Can't Breath!!

[threehorses]

I wouldn't use any more fish oil down his throat as sometimes the vitamins in it can be too much.

Likely if he was sick for a long time he has a chronic respiratory illness that is reappearing. If you want to try to save him, here are some things you can try:

VetRx - replaces the fish oil - very inexpensive, and helps reduce mucus in the throat. Will also help with all breathing issues as it decreases inflammation of the respiratory tract and increases breathing ability. A 2 ounce bottle can last ages as you dilute it with hot water, 50/50. Only use a few drops of water and VetRx in a cup, stir to cool a bit and mix. Use a q-tip soaked in it and swab both his nares (nostrils), the roof of his mouth (where there's a cleft opening there), and put a few drops down his throat as you did the fish oil.

If the fish oil has vitamins A and D in it, give that twice weekly - just a couple of drops down the throat twice a week.

Keep him separate from the other birds for at least a week or two until you're sure he's back to his "normal" state.

Consider giving him antibiotics - Duramycin 10, 3 teaspoons per gallon of water, NO less than 7 days (10 is better) would be a reasonable choice. Give him some yogurt daily for a week following the last day of his medicine.

It sounds like you really want to get him well, so these are the things I would suggest.

Also make sure the bedding is fresh and clean, the coops are well ventilated and airy - no mustiness, mildew. No cedar shavings, please. Hay replaced very very frequently or, better yet, dried compressed pine shavings. If you empty the shavings into a cardboard box and toss them a little with your hands, the dust falls into the box - you pick up the shavings on top and this reduces dust.

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[Americanaluver]

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He doesn't have any growths, just his throat and mucus, and its like human mucus, but, not as thick, looks kinda like bananna mash, I haven't giving him any bananna, or foods that will produce mucus, just pellets and peas mixed together, medicated chicken pellets, ground up a bit. He is a Araucana, if that helps with anything,

 

[Americanaluver]

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Thank you! I'll try and find VetRx, the fish oil has A and D in it, so I will do that as well, he is in a crate right now, hay bedding, no damp stops, no mold, etc. He has as I said above, a boll full of medicated feed and peas, fresh from the garden peas, I was wondering, do you think the medicated feed will be to much when I start this treatment?
Also, he is now crowing normally, in the morning and while he is in the living room, looking for his girls, but, he still has the girlish screach in his crow, I put the dogs out side and let him walk around the kitchen while I cook, he just pecks at the bread crumbs I put on the floor, and stretches his wings, sometimes he will wonder off and fly on the furniture, but he usually just stands around and looks at me, his legs have came back, he still has his tail down, I don't no why, he started doing it a couple of days after I brought him in, he seems happier to, so I am stuck on why his tail is down, is it stress?

 

[threehorses]

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Honestly, medicated feed isn't Medicated" like you're thinking. I wouldn't bother with it honestly. Use the Duramycin 10 antibiotic in the water if you use anything medicine wise, 3 teaspoons per gallon. But really if he was like this a long time and is improved, I think I'd just do vitamins and VetRx. Really you should not medicate unless you absolutely have to. His activity, his improvement, say you don't have to at this moment. Not with that antibiotic anyway - I'm more concerned about his tail being down. What exactly are his droppings like right now?

Medicated feed isn't medicated to treat anything - it's medicated at a low level for chicks to allow them to experience a tiny bit of cocci, not even bacteria, and develop an immunity to that species of cocci. It's worthless in this case and the chance of diet might be more stressful to him.

 

[Americanaluver]

okay, and his droppings are a dark green and white, some times grass green, and some times a mix or light green and dark green,

 

[threehorses]

Is he not eating much?

 

[Americanaluver]

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He's eating fine, each time I give him feed 4 or 3 hours later the boll is basically licked clean, I don't feed him again after that, well, until 6 or 7 hours has pasted, his droppings are more brown I noticed and his tail is more up, but his crow is still scratchy,

 

[threehorses]

I try offering him more feed, then. I was a bit concerned maybe that the green was indicating that he wasn't eating much - but if his actual feces are more brown, then that's better. The green might just be bile from when he wasn't eating as much, or sometimes it's an indication of something going on inside.

 

[Americanaluver]

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okay, he was running around the basement in the dirt, I was watching him, and noticed his tail was up in the air as normal, his droppings still have a bit green in them, sometimes it will be brown, then green, then brown and a little green, hes acting fine, not throwing up or anything, as said his crow is still scratchy but its getting better, you can here his real voice come in sometimes,