Rooster, day 5 afterfox attack, drooling, empty crop

[Greet]

Hey, i have a big brahma rooster. 5 days ago the flok didn’t get in their house before nightfall (automatic door) and was attacked by a fox. 4 chickens were killed and i found my rooster with a neckinjury. He lost most of his tale and the fox has tried to break his neck. There were not really any bitemarks but the neck is swollen and my rooster is hanging with his head. I took him inside the house and have been giving him ors (sugar and salt in water) en wettened food, cooked egg. Here after 5 days i thought he looked a lot better. Is moving more, drinking easier when i hold water in front of him. I also gave him vitamins from today. Men here in the evening he started to drool and all what he eats comes out again. Everything smells very sour. I suspected sour crop but there is nothing in his crop even while i saw him eat a lot today. His neck feels a lot more stiff and swollen then the previous days. Is there something else i can do for him?

 

[analyticalblonde]

@aart
Can you give advice...help?

 

[aart]

Has he been pooping the last 5 days...what does it look like?

Sorry, I'm not much good at this extreme stuff.
If a bird can't eat/drink/poop after that long, I euthanize.

@Eggcessive or @Wyorp Rock may have some ideas.

 

[hayley3]

Have you been force feeding the bird or was he eating that food by himself?
What is sucker and salt water?

 

[Greet]

@aart @hayley3 I have not been force feeding him. Only lifting his head the first few days and holding water under his beak. He is drinking when i do that. Food, he pecks himself when i put it just under him. Sucker and salt water= sugar water with a bit salt. (18 grams sugar + 3 gram salt in one liter water). Sorry, my english is a bit rusty. He has been pooping, very normal looking. Green with white, very firm.

 

[hayley3]

Maybe the food didn't go down because the esophagus is swollen. Not sure what you could do for that but it sounds like the food is just sitting there rotting. I just googled it and they said try some olive oil and massage but it depends on how badly the neck is injured if that would work. And you gotta be careful when doing stuff like that so it doesn't get into their trachea.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

He lost most of his tale and the fox has tried to break his neck. There were not really any bitemarks but the neck is swollen and my rooster is hanging with his head.

in the evening he started to drool and all what he eats comes out again. Everything smells very sour. I suspected sour crop but there is nothing in his crop

His neck feels a lot more stiff and swollen then the previous days.

I'm sorry for your loss and that your poor rooster is not doing well.

I agree, it sounds like the food is not going completely down and is becoming sour. Even if a crop is empty, it can be "sour" (yeast or fungal infection)
I'm going to ask @azygous chime in as well.
With the neck having swelling from injury (poor fella is really hanging over isn't he!) and no it feels like it's swollen more since yesterday - I would suspect some type of infection. Does he breath o.k.?
I understand you are in another country - is vet care an option or do you have access to antibiotics and/or yeast/anti-fungal medications?

 

[azygous]

This is very sad because it appears your rooster has decided to give up the fight, progress seeming to have reversed. He has been sick long enough where he probably hasn't got enough gravel in his gizzard to grind up the food in it and now it's souring and backing up the digestive track, not a good sign. When things reach this point, sadly, there isn't much left you can do for him.

 

[electrycmonk]

@Greet I'd like to give/ask some overly optimistic thoughts/ideas? I don't know Danish, sorry.

Baby grit (chick grit) is tiny, tiny granite. Just maybe, helping him with some of that before you feed him next? Soak the grit in the veggie oil & put it at the side of his beak when you hold him --- if he's comfortable with you that close? That way he can open up and swallow it on his own.

Here's hoping the Roo isn't done trying to live yet.

{Edit to ask a question to the others in thread}
Isn't plain yogurt also a good idea for the crop? So put the chick grit in the yogurt as a parallel feeding????

 

[azygous]

I would certainly try it.