Several months ago I had a pullet (Olive) that started gaping followed by head shaking. She does it quite often. I took a video and showed it to the vet. Fecal float was negative but she suspected it was gapeworm and sent me home with Safeguard (Fenbendazole) 10% with instructions to dose the...
Hi! So I have five 6 1/2 week old bantam chicks who have been doing that thing where they look like they’re gagging (they open their mouth and kind of stick out their tongue), and they’ve been doing it since they were almost 4 weeks old. At first I thought it was just chick fluff getting in...
Hi, yesterday I adopted a meat bird who was behind her flock growth-wise. She spent the night in my bathtub refusing to eat or drink and exhibiting raspy breath. Today, she finally drank some water and immediately gurgled it all back up every time.
Seems clear to me she has Gapeworm, she's...
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I recently agreed to take on a neighbor's flock bc she was moving. One chicken came to me with a sneeze and frequently breathing from an open mouth. She's a friendly chicken and today seems to be more withdrawn. I watched the morning as she opened her mouth to breath and moved her neck...
I have a 2 year old Buff hen who has started waddling when she walks. We have also noted she has tapes in her feces, which I previously treated for in the fall with praziquantel. Now, she has started laying down and gasping for air on occasion, she also cranes her neck back when doing so - see...
Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right! We have a chicken showing some respiratory symptoms, I'm not sure if it could be gapeworm or something else? Here is a video of the gaping behavior she has been doing:
I've called around to a few vets and have not found...
Hello everyone,
We bought home chicks about a month ago, they have been well since then but lately one is acting sick. It is about 2-3 months old.
It has been repeatedly opening its mouth wide open (as if gasping for air) and also having sudden spurts of movement.
Can anyone please advise me...
Hello readers,
as there is not a lot of information out there concerning Gape worm and curing backyard chickens from home, I thought to share my experience.
Unfortunately this story does not have a happy ending but maybe you can learn from my mistakes.
In terms of formatting, I have split it...
Hello! We seem to have gapeworms in some of our chickens and of course, are in need of a dewormer. Upon searching for one, I came across a website called "jefferspet". I was wondering if anyone here has used the product "poultry dewormer 5x"? If you have, one, did it actually come after ordering...
My chickens have been sneezing for about a month now, what originally thought was a respiratory infections my vet thinks is gapeworm now due to their symptoms. I have them the wormer the one night but then put the wormer in their water for another 3 days. After that I noticed their symptoms...
So I have 11 EES that are 24 weeks old and 7 EES that are 13 weeks old and all of them have runny poo, since I've had them..I thought gapeworm cause I've seen some of the older ones look like a yawn every now and then but I dunno, doesn't seem bad if its that.. I have no clue so I came here to...
I know this has been written on here a hundred million times already. I've read so much and am confused how to go forward...
We had been on vacation for a week, neighbor looking after our hens, came back to these two wheezing/rattle breathing. I'm not sure if my neighbour maybe didn't spend as...
so around 27 days ago, i noticed he was yawning a lot and a bit of head shaking, i searched and i found out that he shares symptoms of either gapeworm, respiratory disease or ear infection, he didn't seem to share much symptom of either of those at the time, he was yawning a lot, sometime...
i made a shorter version as one is very long: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-rooster-is-yawning-a-lot-lately-it-is-because-of-respiratory-disease-gapeworm-or-ear-infection-please-help-me-find-out.1478551/
so yesterday before dawn, my rooster (hes 2.5 years old) was yawning a lot, i...
Hi all,
I believe my cockerel has gapeworm as he stretches his neck and makes a yawning action followed by shaking his head. He also has become very lethargic and sits around and naps more often than before. Does this sound like gapeworm? I bought pellets that include flubenvet, he is meant to...
Hi, I would like some help please. I have 1 hen who has been gaping, has a rattling sound when breathing and is shaking head. Comb may be a bit enlarged a bit puffy at end.( I may be imagining this as she has always had a large comb, she is a cream leg bar) No discharge that I have noticed...
Hello, I am a new chicken owner and have a 14 month old chicken. a few days ago she started to make high pitch noises similar to car skids (in my opinion) I have never heard a noise like that from her. She also constantly opens her mouth. (NO STRETCHING, WHISTLING, DISCHARGE OR GAPING) At first...
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I just lost a very sweet three month old hen. She was rescued from traffic about a month ago and had a slight limp and a droop to one wing. She also had missing feathers on her back, but it seemed more like what you'd see when a rooster mates with the hens. This was within city...
My husband informed me my Morans hen was making a weird noise like she was gasping for air. Sure enough. The videos are uploading to YouTube at the moment, so i will post them in the comments in a bit. She sounds raspy and hoarse and like shes gasping for air. Her crop is empty all but a quarter...
Can someone please tell me if they know the proper dosage of fenbenazole to administer to a ~200g, 1-month old aracauna chick? Our vets have no proper idea, and seem to rather suggest euthanasia. The bird isn't ill enough yet to go that far in my opinion, I want desperately to try to save it...