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Clearing throat choking movement. Help!

HensInTheForest

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Apr 1, 2022
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She has been doing this today all of a sudden just a few minutes ago.

I just put 10 buckets of fresh pine straw in the run 30 min prior to this, they all have been tearing thru it its dry.

Is something stuck is this clearing the crop, gape worm or some other issue?

She was fine earlier today happy and foraging. Eating drinking fine.

9 mo old feeding FR only with one handful scratch mealworms 3 x per week for 20 birds.

Flock is new 9 mo old so run and coop are new.

Water is clean.

I had to run in and upload the video. She has already stopped this noise about 20 minutes after taking video and is roosting quietly for the night.

Fixed the video link now it works.

 
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It's likely just dust particles from the pine needles.

Sometimes my piggish chickens eat dry feed too quickly since it's a novelty, wet fermented feed being their normal fare, and there is a flurry of sneezing, choking, and coughing until they finally slow down the feeding fury. Enthusiastic scratching in the new pine straw bedding would stir up dust just as mine do when gluttonously attacking dry feed.
 

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