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it would seem to me that if she is choking on something, the last thing you want to do is try to push the item further down the throat. If it is apple, it may break up on its own with a little time, but if it is something else, try to get it to come up, start feeling from the crop, and work your way up.....gently!

Oh, I wish you luck! What a horrible situation! Keep us updated!
 
I just read something similar on here and they put some drops of olive oil down her throat to loosen the obstruction.

It sounds like choking to me, but I'm no expert.


Check out this thread....this woman thought her hen was choking, but it also turned out to be sour crop:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=117116

may or may not be related.

good luck
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If her wattles and comb are blue/purple she has an obstruction in her trachea. Open her mouth and look in the back if you don't see anything, Turn her over (upside down)and massage her throat from her chest to her head like your milking her neck.
Good luck, keep us posted.
 
Just went out and chhecked on the hen and she is still doing the gasping thing.

Her wattles and comb are red now so I think the oil helped a little and I also felt of her throat from behind her beak and down and I felt nothing, but that doesn't mean nothing is there.

She actually moved on her own from in front of the run door to the shed. I never knew a chicken could drive me this nutty.

Also I did notice residue of runny poo on her vent area feathers but that could have come from when she strains, I suppose.

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is she egg-bound? I know you said that she appears to have something in her throat, but I had a hen doing the same thing and literally had an egg stuck!!!
 
you will have to look, if you can't see anything, put some grease (of some sort-as germ-free as you can make it) and reach in the vent and feel for the egg. My hen was finally able to get it out on her own, it was quite oblong and was immediately followed by a smaller one. It sounds goofy, I know. If necessary, you may have to help her if she is egg bound, but you run the risk of more trauma also.
 
Is there any way that you can tell is she's eggbound by feeling underneath or on the sides or something. Like you said I don't need anymore trauma for her.
 
you might be able to feel an "egg-like" lump from the outside. I don't think that you can hurt her much by feeling for it, more if you have to do any manipulation of it to get it out. Mine didn't have to go that far, but you could feel the egg "shape" pretty easily. The manipulation of the egg would have to be one of those cross your fingers things- but if she isn't looking to make it anyway, at that point it might be the only thing. Do some feeling first. If you have any five flower or something to keep her calm you could use that also.
 

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