Rooster labored breathing and tongue going back in mouth

[MathChica]

Hey everyone I have a rooster who is having a hard time breathing. He's 6 and when I look his tongue is going back I can push it back up but he's still struggling. I can not figure what happened. I can see his esophagus??? And it's opening and closing labored. Any ideas ? He's my baby

 

[Yardmom]

Do you have a any other chickens? Are any of them showing any respiratory distress?

 

[MathChica]

I have other noone else is

 

[MathChica]

Do you have a any other chickens? Are any of them showing any respiratory distress?

Let me try that again. Yes I have other chickens noone else is affected

 

[Yardmom]

Hopefully that means it is not contagious. @azygous @coach723 any ideas on how to help?

 

[MathChica]

It's weird almost like a bone disconnected but there should be no bone there around his neck

 

[azygous]

We need photos.

 

[azygous]

Is he making any wheezing or whistling noises when he breathes? Look at this photo below. The larynx is in the middle of the throat behind the tongue. Sometimes a foreign body gets stuck there. Coughing usually dislodges it in about a day. The espophagus is on his right side of his throat, where you see the feeding syringe pointing. That's where food goes into the crop. Is his crop full and hard or soft and full like a water balloon?

 

[coach723]

Is there anything wrapped around the base of the tongue? Hair, string, etc. Even something as small as a hair can get wrapped around, swallowed, and it pulls the tongue back.

 

[MathChica]

So he has not eaten but he is pooping well liquid. I can't see anything. It's almost like there is a bone around his neck under his head that when I push it up his tongue comes up??