Spencer420420
Hatching
- Mar 2, 2021
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Gapeworm is very disturbing to watch a chicken surfer from. They wheeze and sneeze and caugh . You can tell that they are going through absolute hell. I have thought that my chicken have had a respirstory infection almost every time its something lodged in their throat . Chickens have sensitive airways due to the complex respirstory system they have consisting of two lungs that are attached to 7 or 8 air sacs . With that being said , they are very résilient and usually get better . If à chicken is showing isolated symptoms of coughing shaking of the head , or wheezing, make a tea with water , veg oil , cinnamon , and honey . If the chicken is sick, the cinnamon and honey act as an antibiotic. The oil acts as a lubcricant and decongestent to dislodge anything stuck in the throat . Also directly messaging the asopghogasOh, I should have added, they were treated with 3 doses of ABs at the start (over the course of a month) with no change at all.
The only symptom is the gaping and rattle, other than that the other chicken who has this problem has been absolutely fine in herself, but my Orp seems to be struggling a bit.
They've been to different vets who are no help at all (chickens aren't common round here, and the vets don't seem to really care for them).
I'll try another wormer and see what happens, I have read that gapeworm can take a few doses to clear. The other hen with this problem seems to get better (no rattle) for a while, but then the rattle comes back.
Not sure what I'm meant to do x