Chicken trachea windpipe obstruction

[Saaniya]

Could any of this be gape worm?

..I typically have Indoor chickens who live indoor not roam outside (due to living in flats ) and they eat all their feed none of them eat worms or bugs

And the one I lost was only 39 days old young very small baby chick

 

[Saaniya]

I've never had a chicken with a foreign body lodged in the throat. However, just recently I had a hen with a growth blocking the trachea and she was humanely euthanized. Her symptoms did not include gasping for air. She simply could not keep food or water down. She would eject food with a shake of her head. I could actually palpate the growth by massaging her neck.

Chickens who are gasping or appear to be choking are usually suffering from bacterial or viral respiratory disease, pneumonia, or collapse of the air sacs. You will also have birds with crop issues appear to yawn as they swallow air. I did have a chicken with an ear infection yawn repeatedly probably to release the pressure on the inner structures of the ear.

Chickens who bite off more than can swallow will usually dislodge the object by violently shaking their head back and forth in an attempt to break it down into smaller pieces. Usually another chicken will grab the food item and run with it as other chickens follow eagerly grabbing at the object. This is their way of tearing apart large food items.

Healthy chickens rarely choke on food. Gasping chickens need a good hands-on exam to evaluate what is truly going on.

Hey I just read your experience meanwhile searching about the chick whom i really regretted to lost in January finally found the answer he was only month old and have the same symptoms u write can't able to swallow down the food or watrr anything we force he started shake his and body badly he died ij worse situation ..thank u for writing in brief .

 

[kingstonfarm]

We have a hen who currently has a blockage. I am thankful to this website (and thread) as this is the ONLY article/discussion we have been able to find online about foreign object blockage. Amazing how little info there is out there and this would seem to be a pretty common issue. We gave our hens some unthreshed wheat, and it appears that part of the head of the wheat got lodged in our color pak's wind pipe. We looked down her throat but were not able to see any foreign object. She's been eating yogurt, coconut oil and other foods since getting this lodged. We are thankful she is still breathing and she is now resting on the roost (wheezing has stopped). Seems as though there is little that can be done but wait.