Chicken With Sore Throat

[THELMA]

I have a dorking who appears to have a sore throat. She is eating well and seems OK in herself but she is so croaky has anyone got any ideas as to what could be wrong with her.

 

[Country4ever]

How long has she been croaky?

I've noticed that some of my hens can't tolerate scratch and it gets caught in their throats and then their throats get inflammed for a little while. It usually goes away. But I also quit giving them scratch. its too hard on them and they get impacted crops with it. Also, I have a hen who intermittently has an expiratory honk. She's had it for quite awhile and seems okay otherwise. Don't know if she's got a slow-growing tumor.
If you give your chickens scratch, I would back off of that.

 

[chookchick]

I'm not sure what you mean by "croaky"--do you mean that she sounds different? Is her behavior different? Does she have any stuff in her eyes or nostrils? Does she open her mouth in a strange manner?

 

[THELMA]

Hi
By croaky I mean she seems to be loosing her voice.
I had considered worms so have just started them all on Fluvent wormer.
She really at the moment seems well otherwise although when I let them out this morning I will check on her again.
I had problems with her a couple of months ago when she got a bad eye which overnight developed into a very nasty respritory problem. At the time when I visited the vet he said her temp was nearlly of the scale and if she got better it was possible she could have ongoing problems.
Not sure what scratch is.