What is this chicken doing?

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babyjaycol

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Is there a way to load a video? I didn't take a picture of my friend's bird, I just videoed what she was doing. She was stretching up her neck with her mouth open. I think I saw a string of mucous. He got 10 from someone this weekend.
 
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Okay.

Sometimes chickens stretch their necks up when swallowing after eating fast, and sometimes they spit-up water if they drank a lot and lean over.
They also sometimes do it when suffering from an impacted crop (treatable), trouble breathing (can be treatable), wet pox, or gapeworms (treatable).
 
GitaBooks said:
Okay.

Sometimes chickens stretch their necks up when swallowing after eating fast, and sometimes they spit-up water if they drank a lot and lean over.
They also sometimes do it when suffering from an impacted crop (treatable), trouble breathing (can be treatable), wet pox, or gapeworms (treatable).
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Ok I'm thinking it may be gape worms so I'm going to try to treat for that. Thank you!!
 
Quote: Ok I'm thinking it may be gape worms so I'm going to try to treat for that. Thank you!!
Get a fecal sample tested at a vet first to verify if it's gapeworm. If you dont you'll be wasting money. Gapeworm are rare in chickens.
 
dawg53 said:
Get a fecal sample tested at vet first to verify if it's gapeworm. If you dont you'll be wasting money. Gapeworm are rare in chickens.
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Well I work at a vet and none of us know what a gape worm oocyst looks like. We are dogs and cats only. So what would you treat for? Could I not treat for worms anyway?
 
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It doesn't appear to be wet pox or sour crop either. Thanks for the suggestions so I could look into them. She and two others are rattling in their chest. One of them sneezed. I'm thinking we need to treat with Tylan, which I will pick up tomorrow. These are not my chickens, they are a friends so I have to go over there to look at them. I come home and throw all my clothes and shoes in the washer and take a shower though! Don't want to give it to my girls!!! Thanks dawg for the picture. I did look for it online but never found a good picture. And we do not have many resources for livestock in a dog and cat urban clinic!
 

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