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So, I recently found out the girls have worms. I’m planning on worming them tomorrow, but do you think that could have started all this? Like the worms might have exacerbated the respiratory infection and caused her to start displaying symptoms? She hasn’t been bad lately, but is worse on the...

@azygous I decided to do one more update. She hasn't made that noise in almost two weeks now, and is laying eggs again. She does seem to have trouble panting, I'm guessing the mucous is still hanging around a little. But she's quite heat hardy, and isn't having any problems. I'm cautiously...

Yeah, probably not getting one of those anytime soon, unfortunately. She was doing so much better today, though. It’s really weird how the symptoms come and go. Maybe it has to do with the humidity. It’s been quite dry lately, but it was cloudy and pretty humid today, and maybe that helped. She...

@azygous is there anything I can give her to make her better able to breathe? She’s pretty bad today. She kind of goes a few days where she can breathe really well, then some where she has trouble, then she’s better… I never renewed the anti-inflammatory, but honestly, she breathed about as well...

From what I've heard, it's because the big chicken corporations were misusing it, and we small farmers have to take the fallout. Kinda sucks, because my hen would probably be better by now if I could've gotten the right medication.

Unfortunately, my parents don’t really want to spend any more money on this chicken, as she’s been expensive enough. The vet visits and medicine weren’t cheap. So the probability of her having a mister is pretty low right now. The good thing is, getting her out of the house all day really...

No, her comb is all red and normal. We don't have a vaporizer or mister that we could use with her, but I put her in the tractor for the day. I figured getting her out of the dusty coop would help, and it has. She has a cranky broody hen to keep her company, which she doesn't really enjoy, but...

@azygous, I’m so sorry to keep on bothering you, but my poor hen won’t stop making that noise. After two weeks of medicine, she’s no better than before. She can’t even take a breath normally. She’ll breathe in, chew a little bit, then make the noise again when she breathes out, really...

Well, Silver went to the vet yesterday, and the vet said she’s doing much better. I can’t really see a difference, but she said her lungs were a lot clearer. She’s still breathing harder and faster than normal, though. And turns out she’s on both an anti-inflammatory and an antibiotic, which I...

@azygous well, you can pretty much disregard all I said there. I don’t know what’s stressing her out, maybe the heat, but she’s worse again. Definitely not as bad as she was before the medicine, but she might get there. She’s still eating and drinking, and walking around fine. I’ve kept on...

@azygous thanks so much for all your help. My little hen is doing much better, and starting to gain weight back. It’s getting tougher to give her her medicine each day, because she’s getting stronger and smarter! I love to see that, of course, but I may have to enlist some help in holding her...

The anti-inflammatory will just treat her symptoms though, right? Not the underlying cause?

@azygous she’s back home now! I was afraid she’d lay an egg in the cat carrier on the ride home, but thankfully she waited. The vet gave her some anti inflammatory meds, no antibiotics though. She said it should help, and to bring her back in a week if she’s not better. She thinks the issue is...

@azygous my mom took her to the vet this morning, she’s going to drop her off and they’ll see her when they have time.

Also, would VetRx help? I have some on hand

I’ll look for it asap. I was on vacation this past week, so haven’t had much time. Should I just dose her, or everyone? No one else is showing the same symptoms, and I’d hate to have to throw out all those lovely eggs they’re laying…

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Ok, I'll look into that. Up until yesterday, I thought she was getting better, but this morning she's getting worse again. It's so bad that I took her out of the house, hopefully to get her away from whatever's causing it. Do you think it's MG? I have a hen who's had watery eyes for a long time...

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Well, it’s been a couple weeks, and she’s no better. In fact, she may be a bit worse. She’s still acting normal, eating, drinking, laying eggs, etc., but her symptoms have gotten worse. I can’t figure out any trigger except maybe strenuous activity, like laying an egg, running around, or getting...