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Did you check for lice? A simple inspection could rule it out.

Look around her vent, her abdomen, under her wings, and where she's picking her feathers. See if you can spot little whitish creepy crawly things. Sometimes they make a crusty white egg sac at the base of a feather, and you should be able to see that too. Lice can make them feel very miserable.

Does she have lice?

I mean looking. **** autocorrect

Thank you I was loving for that!

You have to avoid putting food down her trachea! If you look on her throat there is a hole in the back of her throat, her breathing hole! Put nothing down there she will choke. Introduce the food to the part of her throat that is beside that hole ok?

With green poop!

The really virulent thing is not that common in the United States. But there's a lesser viral thing that still shows up sometimes. Chickens can get it and recover and be totally normal. Like a really bad shitty flu.

Is anyone else thinking Newcastles?

I'm sort of loving this exchange. One of you a little bit timid and hands off, and the other all "git er done!" I have to say though, in this situation, I've got to side with "git ER done!"

Why?

Alright this is WAY out of the box, but WTH. If you get a mother mare with an engorged udder, so taut the foal can't drink, you use suction to ease that situation. You get a glass bottle, like a juice bottle or wine bottle, warm it up by pouring boiling water in it, dump out boiling water, make...

A neighbour had to break the egg of a hen who could not lay it. She used a crochet hook, and it worked better than a straight instrument because she could catch and tug the egg out with it.

Good to know. I'll stock up on Tums just in case.