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    Is this impacted crop behavior?

    Brought my bantam cosette in to clip her nails and she was doing this strange jerking head movement. Her crop felt very full and a bit hard and I wasn’t sure if this movement was her trying to unsuccessfully clear it? She was pooping some but a lot of it was really watery. Never seen anything...
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    Hello from Fort Worth, Texas!

    Thank you so much, I’ve been trying to find ways to keep them cool! So far I’ve been using a mister and giving them watermelon wedges when I get the chance with moderate success; definitely throwing some water bottles in the freezer tonight! Summer hit so fast after those storms none of us got a...
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    Hello from Fort Worth, Texas!

    Thanks! Glad to be here :) He wasn’t a fan of me but was so protective and sweet to the girls. Dealt with some over mating since he played favorites, but nothing one of those chicken aprons couldn’t fix. Unfortunately he passed over the winter defending them from a predator that got in during...
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    Hello from Fort Worth, Texas!

    Hello from Ft. worth! First time chicken owner here starting in the spring of 2020. I’ve got an assorted breed flock of 7: a speckled Sussex, barred rock, blue laced Wyandotte, bantam Cochin, a couple Easter Eggers, and a mystery hen. I love how each chicken has such a unique personality! Aside...
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    HELP!! Chicken gasping and wheezing

    Update: she’s okay today thank goodness! Thanks for taking the time to teach me about this stuff :)
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    HELP!! Chicken gasping and wheezing

    What made me so scared about it was she made that screaming noise earlier but the Silkie sounds a lot more like her breathing. Thank you, it’s my first time caring for chickens so I’m not familiar with all this yet
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    HELP!! Chicken gasping and wheezing

    Thank you, i really hope that’s it and she’ll be okay overnight. She was fine this morning when I let them out, but was like this when I came out to put them up for the night. So at least a couple hours now
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    HELP!! Chicken gasping and wheezing

    Here are a couple videos. It’s pretty tame compared to earlier; occasionally she’d make this screaming noise when she was trying to breathe. Sounded a lot like a video someone else posted about gapeworm :( https://youtube.com/shorts/l53C35BsKEo?feature=share...
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    HELP!! Chicken gasping and wheezing

    She’s about a year and a half old and I think she’s been laying a little less the past week. One of my girls had one last year but she made it and hasn’t been sick since. No new birds since I got her; they’re currently housed in an outbuilding with an air filter for good measure after the last...
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    HELP!! Chicken gasping and wheezing

    My girl Carmen is wheezing and struggling to breathe, she was fine this morning and I have no idea what could be wrong! Looked in her throat and no obstruction I could see, breath isn’t sour. Please help I’m afraid she’s not gonna make it from how bad it’s been :( i have a video of it but no...
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