Rooster has lumps in his throat & can't eat.

[Ederle]

He is four years old. I know that canker has been going around my flock, I have cured one hen of it already.

But this is different in terms of severity. I looked in his mouth and I can see three fairly large lumps in the back of his throat. There is also yellowy-orange stuff that I can scrape off. When I stick my finger down his throat, I can feel more smaller (but still large) lumps all the way down. He can't eat anymore because the food gets stuck and he coughs it back up. His crop is always empty and he's thin. He clearly wants to eat but can't.

I gave him fish sole twice. Five tablets a day each time. The first time was probably three months ago, and now I've given him a second treatment, shoving the pills as far down his throat as I can. I ended the second treatment about three weeks ago. Nothing is helping. I also put copper sulfate in the water.

Also, today when I looked in his throat there was blood. I'm not sure where it was coming from.

 

[dawg53]

After you scrape the lesions from his inside his mouth, it'll bleed.
Canker can extend down into the esophagus and crop preventing feed intake. He can die from starvation in 8-10 days.
Even with metronidazole and copper sulfate treatments, surviving birds are carriers for life.
Is there a foul odor coming from the inside of his mouth? If so, it's canker. If not, wet fowl pox.

 

[Ederle]

@dawg53
The stuff does have a smell, but it's not overwhelming.
I've been giving him metronidazole and copper sulfate on and off for weeks now though, and it hasn't gone away. I can still scrape big clumps of cheesy stuff out of his throat.

He's had this since February, I think, and it's still not much better.

I'm making him eat and I am cleaning his throat everyday. He seems to feel okay, he's still clucking and crowing like normal and he's all over the hens 24/7.

One of my other hens had yellowy stuff growing in her mouth as well, and when I gave her metronidazole she recovered within a week and is now perfectly fine. This rooster is the only one who is sick now, but I don't know what to do for him.