OK...first a little background. She just turned 3 in May. She’s a bigger girl that has never had a lot of motivation to free range. Everyone else runs around and goes into the woods. She’s rather hang by the run and get pet by mama.
Anyway, she never started laying again at the end of this winter. Then we noticed one day that she was loaded with mites. So we powdered her down with permethrin and the problem cleared up quickly. A month or so later she started showing signs of internal laying. She was having smallish poops with yellowish hints of egg material and occasionally a little bright green indicative of infection. Also, when she tried to move too much, or got mounted by the rooster, her comb would get very purple and she’d struggle to breathe. I’ve been assuming there’s pressure on her organs.
A few weeks ago the rooster chased her into the run and mounted her underneath the coop. By the time I got in there to push him off she was limp and looking dead under him. I pulled her out and she wasn’t breathing and was dark purple in the face...her head was dangling down to the ground too. She had a couple of spasms and gasps in my arms and slowly started breathing again. I put her in front of a fan and in 30 minutes she was doing better. Luckily it was bed time. She woke up the next morning normal.
Currently, she comes out of the coop in the morning looking OK with an occasional gasp. The problem is when she starts eating. Any bit of food and she starts gasping for air. She gets her breathing back in check and then she goes eating and gasping again. Rinse repeat. Her poop has looked much better recently so I don’t know what to think. The heat is starting to get worse in NH and she’s been showing less tolerance for it than the others.
Other than looking a bit ill a couple of months ago with those eggy poos, her biggest problem has been the breathing. I still suspect some kind of reproductive issue, but I considered something fungal or gape too. I don’t see anything down her throat though. Would the organ pressure on a crop cause this sort of issue or does this seem more like a blockage? Here’s a video from last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Zhylsw5sY
Anyway, she never started laying again at the end of this winter. Then we noticed one day that she was loaded with mites. So we powdered her down with permethrin and the problem cleared up quickly. A month or so later she started showing signs of internal laying. She was having smallish poops with yellowish hints of egg material and occasionally a little bright green indicative of infection. Also, when she tried to move too much, or got mounted by the rooster, her comb would get very purple and she’d struggle to breathe. I’ve been assuming there’s pressure on her organs.
A few weeks ago the rooster chased her into the run and mounted her underneath the coop. By the time I got in there to push him off she was limp and looking dead under him. I pulled her out and she wasn’t breathing and was dark purple in the face...her head was dangling down to the ground too. She had a couple of spasms and gasps in my arms and slowly started breathing again. I put her in front of a fan and in 30 minutes she was doing better. Luckily it was bed time. She woke up the next morning normal.
Currently, she comes out of the coop in the morning looking OK with an occasional gasp. The problem is when she starts eating. Any bit of food and she starts gasping for air. She gets her breathing back in check and then she goes eating and gasping again. Rinse repeat. Her poop has looked much better recently so I don’t know what to think. The heat is starting to get worse in NH and she’s been showing less tolerance for it than the others.
Other than looking a bit ill a couple of months ago with those eggy poos, her biggest problem has been the breathing. I still suspect some kind of reproductive issue, but I considered something fungal or gape too. I don’t see anything down her throat though. Would the organ pressure on a crop cause this sort of issue or does this seem more like a blockage? Here’s a video from last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Zhylsw5sY
