Rooster w EXTREME lethargy/isolating

[JuanitaWilson]

Hi! I'm new here, but I am desperate for some advice with my rooster.
He is a 1-1.5 year old Ermine Americauna of average build

Main symptom - extreme lethargy. Can hardly hold his eyes open for more than 30 seconds. Seems to just be going in and out of sleep. He seems like he's doing a "swallowing" thing often but it's not gaping. He just seems to be swallowing and almost smacking his mouth or lips, so to speak. He began to isolate and doesn't always care if he is with our flock. We have 6 hens, they are acting and laying normally. He stands in the same place for a long time, often falling asleep standing up. Or he will completely lay down for a half hour or more.

We have seen a few of the hens do the silent squawk, which is why I'm working under the assumption that we have a gape worm problem here. And for some reason he is the most affected. Though he is not doing the gaping or silent squawk.

This has been happening for about 3 weeks - not this bad the whole time, but it's been progressively getting worse. He had a mild case of lice, which we treated and he is cured of that, so he's not itchy, but his lethargy never went away and has just gotten worse with time. So now we are treating the whole flock for worms. I'm using Safeguard Aqua Sol. Day 2 completed for the hens. He's completed day 1 because he wouldn't drink on the original day I tried to give him medicated water, so I had to get an appropriate syringe.

So we have him isolated in his own pin. He has eaten a scrambled egg, a little yogurt, and some of his regular chicken feed today. But he won't drink. He is just so lethargic. He can barely hold his eyes open. We used a syringe to get his dewormer water down him over a period of 3 hours. I did not see any red worms in his throat though I wasn't using a flash light. I will do that next time I administer treatment. I did look into a couple of the girls throats with a flashlight and saw no red worms.

Please help! Any advice would be an amazing. Any tips on getting antibiotics in the Nashville area would be great! Do we think this is worms??

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can hardly hold his eyes open for more than 30 seconds. Seems to just be going in and out of sleep. He seems like he's doing a "swallowing" thing often but it's not gaping. He just seems to be swallowing and almost smacking his mouth or lips

This has been happening for about 3 weeks - not this bad the whole time, but it's been progressively getting worse. He had a mild case of lice, which we treated and he is cured of that, so he's not itchy, but his lethargy never went away and has just gotten worse with time.

o now we are treating the whole flock for worms. I'm using Safeguard Aqua Sol. Day 2 completed for the hens. He's completed day 1 because he wouldn't drink on the original day I tried to give him medicated water, so I had to get an appropriate syringe.

Welcome To BYC

Do you have photos of him and his poop?
Any photos of the inside of his beak?

What's his crop like, is it emptying overnight?

Safeguard Aquasol© if given by the directions will treat Roundworms Only.

If you wish to treat Gapeworms, get Safeguard Liquid Goat Dewormer 10% and dose him orally at a rate of 0.23ml per pound of weight once daily for 5days in a row.

Any chance he ate something moldy, rotten or toxic (compost, weed killer, exposed to oil spill, a dead animal, etc. )?

I'd recheck inside the beak for any lesions or canker, for any obstruction, a hair or string around the tongue, etc.

Any feeling of air captured under the skin along the neck or body.

Are all lice gone? What did you treat him with?
What do you feed, including treats?

Hi! I'm new here, but I am desperate for some advice with my rooster.
He is a 1-1.5 year old Ermine Americauna of average build

Main symptom - extreme lethargy. Can hardly hold his eyes open for more than 30 seconds. Seems to just be going in and out of sleep. He seems like he's doing a "swallowing" thing often but it's not gaping. He just seems to be swallowing and almost smacking his mouth or lips, so to speak. He began to isolate and doesn't always care if he is with our flock. We have 6 hens, they are acting and laying normally. He stands in the same place for a long time, often falling asleep standing up. Or he will completely lay down for a half hour or more.

We have seen a few of the hens do the silent squawk, which is why I'm working under the assumption that we have a gape worm problem here. And for some reason he is the most affected. Though he is not doing the gaping or silent squawk.

This has been happening for about 3 weeks - not this bad the whole time, but it's been progressively getting worse. He had a mild case of lice, which we treated and he is cured of that, so he's not itchy, but his lethargy never went away and has just gotten worse with time. So now we are treating the whole flock for worms. I'm using Safeguard Aqua Sol. Day 2 completed for the hens. He's completed day 1 because he wouldn't drink on the original day I tried to give him medicated water, so I had to get an appropriate syringe.

So we have him isolated in his own pin. He has eaten a scrambled egg, a little yogurt, and some of his regular chicken feed today. But he won't drink. He is just so lethargic. He can barely hold his eyes open. We used a syringe to get his dewormer water down him over a period of 3 hours. I did not see any red worms in his throat though I wasn't using a flash light. I will do that next time I administer treatment. I did look into a couple of the girls throats with a flashlight and saw no red worms.

Please help! Any advice would be an amazing. Any tips on getting antibiotics in the Nashville area would be great! Do we think this is worms??