Hey everyone. I need help with my Maple. She's an almost 2 year old easter egger. I was taking the dogs out this morning and I heard this weird noise from the coop so I went to investigate and Maple was wheezing and breathing hard. She was perfectly fine yesterday. It doesn't sound like MG or illnesses like that. I've dealt with that in the past with birds in quarentine. This seems a lot more like asthma. I had it as a kid and it seems exactly the same. She is overweight also. There was one other time that this happened with her but it was nowhere near this intense. It only lasted about a day last time and it was after she had a panic attack from hearing a gun shot and the other chickens started chasing her everywhere. She didn't get treatment last time, just time to calm down. She's in the house with me now, calming down but still wheezing. I found a video on YouTube. She sounds just like this (not my video though). Any thoughts, please. Can a chicken be predisposed to asthma?
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