labored breathing

  1. T

    Labored breathing Isa Brown

    almost 3 yrs old, late afternoon yesterday, I found my Isa Brown hen sitting on roost bar when rest of flock was out free-ranging. She had a droopy tail, droopy comb, and labored breathing. Several times, I offered her scrambled egg and yogurt where she was and she only took a little nibble...
  2. ashe1263

    Molting Buff Orphington Inside Beak Swollen/Breathing Issues

    I really don't know what to say, I've never had this happen before. I'm worried because I live in the NE and it's starting to get incredibly cold. I just lost a hen recently from something completely different and I really don't want to lose another. My buff orpington started molting and...
  3. Tiffany Wikk

    Hen with a Limp, Labored Breathing, Drooping Tail, and Fatigue [Update: Worm Found]

    This morning my Speckled Sussex hen, Brynn (13 mo old) began limping. I've looked over her foot and leg and can't see anything obvious that looks like an injury. She lets me touch it as if it doesn't hurt but favors it when she walks. I gave her half a pill of Vitamin B complex, 400 IU of...
  4. slukeplass22

    Hen Can’t Speak Anymore, Breathing Heavy

    My almost 8 Year Old Australorp has been off the last few days. She’s breathing a little bit heavier than normal and can’t speak anymore. When she tries to speak, it ends up sounding like she has a blockage of some sort. Otherwise she acts like the others. She eats, drinks, dirt bathes, etc...
  5. N

    Hen with swollen eye

    Hello everyone I'm new here! I have a Bantam that Is 10 months old and she currently has just 1 extremely swollen eye that's leaking yellow pus from both eyes. The last 3 1/2 months she has had this swelling that comes and goes frequently after a bout of fowl pox. 2 months ago it cleared up and...
  6. R

    Chick Breathing With Mouth Open

    I have a baby chick that I had to help from the egg yesterday. It was fine until this morning when I checked and it was like gasping with its mouth open. I had moved it to the brooder because I thought it may not be getting enough air in there. Now it’s been almost twelve hours and it still has...
  7. J

    Video and pics. Help me diagnose 10 week old respiratory illness?

    Hi everyone. I have an 11ish week old Australorp chick (or is it pullet now?) that has been sick for a couple weeks, and I’d appreciate some help in maybe figuring out what’s going on, and how I can best help her. These are my first chickens, so I’d appreciate the input of others more...
  8. kaleighmarie1213

    5wk old Silkie chick abcess

    My daughters silkie named Raven is not acting normal. Here is all I know... she is 5 weeks old, none of the others are affected as far as I can tell. She is a silkie/frizzle mix I hatched from an online order. They've been kept indoors and food/water cleaned nearly daily. Held often and quite...
  9. Goosebaby

    Open mouth breathing and stomach issues

    My gander Roxby is having issues again. He’s been off and on ill since March with some sort of recurrent neurological issue. As of August I seemed to have finally got a handle on whatever it was by treating him and the rest of the flock for coccidia and a gram positive bacteria “the vet wasn’t...
  10. TundraFang

    Silkie chick with labored breathing

    I have five Silkie chicks in a brooder. The bedding is pine shavings and they have a heat plate with easy access to food and water. I was outside doing chicken chores and came inside to one of the chicks lying down beside the heat plate panting. The other chicks are fine and moving around. I...
  11. PeriwinkleChickens

    Wheezing/Squawking on Exhale

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Tetra Brown, approx. 3 years old, normal/plump weight (no swollen crop or emaciation) 2) What is the behavior, exactly. This morning (4/6/21), her normal 'squawking' sounded a bit more...
  12. S

    Labored/heavy breathing 4 1/2 year old buff orpington HELP

    Please help! She is my only baby and I don’t know what to do. She has been having a difficulty breathing, I can hear her breaths. She also sneezes and has a runny nose. She eats and drinks normally. I tried to search for remedies and came across the Vetrx poultry aid, would that help? She is 4...
  13. V

    Help!! My duck has labored breathing, sneezing, and maybe a stuffed nose. Help please.

    I hatched a duckling about three weeks ago and it's grown big but maybe not healthy. I've been feeding it chick starter crumbles unmedicated 18% protein from the tractor supplies store. We just bought some new food that's similar but has a duck and chick on the cover - same thing just 20%...
    • Vivian292
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    • 3 weeks old foaming eye help asap infection labored breathing open mouth breathing saline sneezing duckling stuffed nose vetrx
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    • Forum: Ducks
  14. Laydeau

    Really need advice- pup got a pullet

    Last night before locking my flock up (they free range during the day and put themselves up at night i just lock the door) my pup decided to go after one. I have her in the house nice, warm and comfy in a tote. She's been drinking water all day. I have given electrolytes and found some remedies...
  15. Table4Six

    Gosling - Labored Breathing

    I had a White Chinese gosling hatch July 1. It was the only good egg out of the clutch so I immediately began looking for another gosling around the same age to keep it company. I picked up an African gosling a couple days ago(Chinese is one week old, African is two weeks old) and fortunately...
    • Table4Six
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    • geese gosling labored breathing
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    • Forum: Geese
  16. Mimi13

    Breathing difficulties

    This morning I noticed my CW, Blanca, breathing very strangely, very noisily, with little sneezes interspersed. A little background: I have a free range flock of 35 and 12 3-wk old chicks inside. I have been keeping chickens for three years and have no history of any respiratory disease in my...
  17. Jaistraw

    Emergency!! Chicken won't stand/move. Help!

    I need advice on this asap.. Our hen seems to be having some issues. She is believed to be a brahma, maybe 8 years.(Minimum? Not sure.) Seeing as we know that is fairly old for a chicken, we suspect she may be dying of old age, but we aren't sure. She won't move at all except for her head/neck...
  18. ajesus92

    Silkie trouble breathing

    hello I have a silkie that is having trouble breathing. I can’t afford to take her to the vet until next week but I fear she won’t make it. I have read online and through friends tried different thing. I bought VetRX which work at first but then nothing. Second I bought oxine(ah) and put it as a...
  19. ajesus92

    PLEASE HELP SILKIE

    Long story short after 3 years I got my silkie back from my friend. She not looking to well, she was fine the first week but now her breathing is off. If she’s take a few step she fall down flap wings gasp for air (in my many year owing birds, this is normally the sign they are going to die) but...
  20. Roger98

    Pullet having breathing issues

    This pullet has had a few issues for last month. First i thought i witness her having siezures, then more recently i noticed she sometimes has very labored breathing like she's opening her mouth very wide and sticking her tongue out. She eats and drinks with the others, her appetite hasn't gone...
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