Congested Chicken? Now A Gurgle?

[logansmommy7]

I am new at the chicken thing, how do you feel their crop??

 

[heron]

The crop is at the base of the neck/front of the chest.

 

[Fuzzypea]

My black cochin hen (Ralphie) has the same problem.

When i pick her up, she makes these wheezy sounds, like she has a stuffy nose. Does anybody know what might be wrong with her???

 

[lizzard]

Hi, my chicken is doing the same thing, fine yesterday and i was cleaning the chicken house and she started the same thing today. pulled her out of the coop have her in the house. the other chicken are fine, one sneezed today. should i give her meds, Used 7 dust to in the pen the had chicken mites. maybe she got some of the dust up her nose. pleas some help.

 

[lizzard]

I check her crop and it was round and hard, i put some olive oil down and rubbed ,it not has hard but still seems congested. stool alittle running , no discharge from nose. ???

 

[Chicki]

I have one doing the same type of sound as above. she's always once in a while had a sneeze occasionally, but tonight sounds like she has a frog stuck in her throat....antibiotics? how do you open their mouth for the olive oil thing?