Midnight Maran Momma
Songster
When I went out to check on our flock today, this sweetheart was fluffed up and making a loud snoring sound, which I recognized as respiratory distress from other BYC videos. I checked her vent, and it's clean. Lots of new pin feathers, but no obvious signs of diarrhea or bugs/parasites (a paranoia of mine). I set up our XL dog kennel in our sunroom and added some crushed garlic to the water dish in there. I got her out of the main run, and we walked together outside for a ways while she foraged happily, 'snoring' while snarfing down greens and small bugs, so at least she seems to be eating comfortably. Once in her temporary enclosure, she drank some water after checking out her new digs for a few minutes. The 'snoring' sound seems to come and go, but when she's doing it (more often than not), it's loud enough I can hear it in another room. She's also sneezed three times in the last 30 minutes, but I'm unsure if that's because of her being sick, or the fresh bedding (pine chips) in the temporary enclosure (like they have in their coop). With no vet available, aside from crushed garlic, humidity, food (she's on Kalmbach, with a few mint leaves daily and tuna fish every other day to help her through the molt) & water (obviously), what can I do to help her through this?
None of our other chickens are exhibiting this sound, or are As fluffed up as her, but with most of them molting, it's hard to tell. Several look pretty rough, but that's the molt, from what I'm seeing. One had diarrhea on their 'porch', but I haven't been able to tell which one, yet.
I keep trying to upload a video of her, but it's not working.
None of our other chickens are exhibiting this sound, or are As fluffed up as her, but with most of them molting, it's hard to tell. Several look pretty rough, but that's the molt, from what I'm seeing. One had diarrhea on their 'porch', but I haven't been able to tell which one, yet.
I keep trying to upload a video of her, but it's not working.
