Rooster Choking Help!!

[PeytonGardiner]

Our Silver Laced Wyandotte Rooster is choking! We can feel the mas, about the size of a small grape or cherry tomatoe. He is gaping and stretching neck out. We can hear some little weezing. Some mucus like substance. Olive has not worked it’s too big. Massaging is proving fruitless
Please help!!

 

[azygous]

Exactly where is the obstruction? Crop? Throat? Have you opened his mouth and looked? Is his comb purple?

The location of the obstruction determines what you need to do. Have you identified what material the obstruction is?

 

[PeytonGardiner]

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Exactly where is the obstruction? Crop? Throat? Have you opened his mouth and looked? Is his comb purple?

The location of the obstruction determines what you need to do. Have you identified what material the obstruction is?

the throat, we can push it upward and it at times bobs down, we can’t get past where throat meets mouth. We don’t know exactly what it is but are certain it is food

 

[PeytonGardiner]

His comb is a darkish red and in the past day it has become pale pink at times

 

[PeytonGardiner]

He is gaspin and laying down it may be too late

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry about your rooster. Is a vet a possibility? Can you see anything inside his throat if you shine a light into it while someone hold him? Have you seen any fowl pox in the last few months, or have you seen pigeons around the yard? If it isn’t a piece of food or a foreign body, canker, wet pox, or worms could be possibilities. You must feel very helpless right now if he is struggling. I wish we could be more helpful. If you hold water up to his beak in asmall cup, will he drink on his own? Where are you located?

 

[azygous]

If you feel he's about to expire, then try the chicken Heimlich by upending the rooster and dangle him by his feet. Then swing him as a unit, careful not to articulate and extend his neck, back and forth at a reasonable speed. Gravity often will dislodge an obstruction. If this doesn't do the trick, bounce him up and down a few times gently as he's hanging upside down, but don't have him in this position for longer than thirty seconds as it can cause him to lose consciousness.

This is only as a last resort if you feel he may be about to die. This worked for me one time when a hen was choking on a cherry tomato and she was losing consciousness.

 

[PeytonGardiner]

Sorry about your rooster. Is a vet a possibility? Can you see anything inside his throat if you shine a light into it while someone hold him? Have you seen any fowl pox in the last few months, or have you seen pigeons around the yard? If it isn’t a piece of food or a foreign body, canker, wet pox, or worms could be possibilities. You must feel very helpless right now if he is struggling. I wish we could be more helpful. If you hold water up to his beak in asmall cup, will he drink on his own? Where are you located?

We are in the Modoc National Forest and a vet is not available. He is now sitting on his own with improved color and not gaping, he may have passed the object he has been inside under observation since contracting Bumblefoot and on antibiotics for a week

 

[PeytonGardiner]

If you feel he's about to expire, then try the chicken Heimlich by upending the rooster and dangle him by his feet. Then swing him as a unit, careful not to articulate and extend his neck, back and forth at a reasonable speed. Gravity often will dislodge an obstruction. If this doesn't do the trick, bounce him up and down a few times gently as he's hanging upside down, but don't have him in this position for longer than thirty seconds as it can cause him to lose consciousness.

This is only as a last resort if you feel he may be about to die. This worked for me one time when a hen was choking on a cherry tomato and she was losing consciousness.

Thank you! I will keep this in mind

 

[Eggcessive]

So glad that he is improving. If there was something blocking his airway, it may have been coughed and cleared, or he may have swallowed. Be careful handling his crop, because if he has food and water in his crop and you accidentally squeeze the crop while handling him, it can cause food to come up into his airway.