My rooster looks dizzy

[gallopava]

Today at around 8 am I dewormed 4 roosters and one of them looks a little unsteady on his legs, like he was dizzy. I gave him 0.3ml of zimecterin gold. My roosters weigh between 3 to 4 pounds. At around 3pm I went to see them and saw that my favorite was very quiet. I took him out of the cage and let him walk around and eat grass, and I noticed that he wasn't walking very steadily. He pooped and I saw all the medicine in the poop. The poop looked normal except for the colored cream. I mixed it to see if there were any parasites and I saw what looked like little eggs. I think it's tapeworm. None of my animals had ever shown secondary symptoms from the dewormer. A few months ago I had treated them with safeguard aquasol and they had never shown symptoms, but some hens and the rooster that is sick today have not gone away from the tapeworms. How long do I have to wait to know if the medicine worked?

 

[nuthatched]

What's his diet like? Anything toxic or moldy he could have found?

 

[gallopava]

His diet is regular chicken food. He is eating and drinking water normal. But look weak. Yesterday after i notice this I give some oats with fresh coconut water, and some multivitamin. And a little bit of egg white protein powder

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Is that all-flock, or layers?

 

[gallopava]

A big family of 30+ members and some of my neighbor. All are free except for 5 rooster that are very aggressive.

 

[gallopava]

 

[wrathsfarm]

@OrpingtonManiac was asking what kind of feed you have.

Is it an All-Flock feed or Layer feed?

 

[wrathsfarm]

It helps in situations like these that you describe in detail everything your feeding your birds including all treats and type of water and how often.

What brand and percentage of feed also?
What treats and how often?

 

[Eggcessive]

Have you given him some water with sugar or electrolytes in case he is dehydrated? Is he allowed by the other roosters to eat and drink ? Sometimes the weaker ones may be kept from food and water. Your pictures are a bit out of focus. Do you have any pictures of the poop with the tapeworm segments, and are they moving? The white part of his poop may be white urates (uric acids,) and not the worm paste. Tapeworms will reinfect your chickens if they consume and of the tapeworm eggs that may be in the intermediate hosts in their environment. Earthworms, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, snails and slugs are some of the possible hosts. Mice and moles may also contain them, so if the chicken eats one of those, they can get them again. If the tapeworm segments are in the grass from their droppings, they can also get reintroduced to tapes. Dosage can be repeated in 14 days to get the tapeworm eggs. If they are being reinfected they may require worming more often.

 

[gallopava]

Flock feed. Corn every day. In the week I give bananas, oats, coconut meat. Casava. Rice. And weed and grass