Hi All, Please help diagnose a cough that one of our 9-year-old French Copper Marans has developed in the last couple of days.There does not seem to be any nasal discharge. We are in central California, temperatures have been in the 60s-80s and dry the last few weeks.
She now has her mouth open much more often and the coughing/wheezing happens most often when she eats. Our other hen is fine. I just changed the bedding as well. They have been healthy for all the 7 years we've had them, and she has just resumed a month ago laying an egg every few days, until this past weekend when the cough became apparent. We only gave them medication once, about 6 years ago when we could see white worms in their feces. Nothing else since.
We kept them inside their run area since last fall when the threat of Avian flu hit the west. We started letting them out into the backyard again about a month ago.
I'm attaching a link to video of the cough:
Thanks so much for any advice you can provide.
She now has her mouth open much more often and the coughing/wheezing happens most often when she eats. Our other hen is fine. I just changed the bedding as well. They have been healthy for all the 7 years we've had them, and she has just resumed a month ago laying an egg every few days, until this past weekend when the cough became apparent. We only gave them medication once, about 6 years ago when we could see white worms in their feces. Nothing else since.
We kept them inside their run area since last fall when the threat of Avian flu hit the west. We started letting them out into the backyard again about a month ago.
I'm attaching a link to video of the cough:
Thanks so much for any advice you can provide.
