Extremely skinny, unable to balance, wheezing.

[EmmaRainboe]

My girl Peepers is wheezing extremely hard, almost clicking. She’s extremely skinny. I can practically only feel keel. She is still eating.
She has been roosting on the ground the past two nights, and is having trouble balancing as she walks.

@casportpony @Wyorp Rock

 

[The-White-Elephant]

I am not much help, but good luck. Hope she makes it!

@azygous @Eggcessive

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I currently have her with the flock, but on the outside of the pen so I can monitor her food intake. She has a 1/2 cup of pellets, mixed with some water and a bit of tuna.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I currently have her with the flock, but on the outside of the pen so I can monitor her food intake. She has a 1/2 cup of pellets, mixed with some water and a bit of tuna.

She’s alternating betWeen that foraging a little bit.

 

[azygous]

How old is she? How long has she had these issues?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

How old is she? How long has she had these issues?

She is almost two years old. She’s had them for a day or two.

I just felt her crop. It’s hard. She was just eating though.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Poor baby. Something's definitely wrong here.

 

[azygous]

Two things this might be. The first is not treatable, and the second is.

Her problem might be from avian leucosis causing tumors on her organs, shutting her body down, causing weight loss, crop malfunction, breathing issues, and even nerve and brain damage.

But it may be a simple crop disorder causing over fullness and this might be backing up occasionally into her larynx, causing the breathing noises.

You can't treat the first one, but a crop issue is easily treated. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Read through my article and decide which crop issue you are dealing with. If the crop is very large and hard, she may have an impacted crop, so you would start my giving her oil and massage. Hopefully, she will improve with crop treatment, and the leucosis scare is unwarranted.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Two things this might be. The first is not treatable, and the second is.

Her problem might be from avian leucosis causing tumors on her organs, shutting her body down, causing weight loss, crop malfunction, breathing issues, and even nerve and brain damage.

But it may be a simple crop disorder causing over fullness and this might be backing up occasionally into her larynx, causing the breathing noises.

You can't treat the first one, but a crop issue is easily treated. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Read through my article and decide which crop issue you are dealing with. If the crop is very large and hard, she may have an impacted crop, so you would start my giving her oil and massage. Hopefully, she will improve with crop treatment, and the leucosis scare is unwarranted.

The avian leucosis - would that be Marek's-related?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Two things this might be. The first is not treatable, and the second is.

Her problem might be from avian leucosis causing tumors on her organs, shutting her body down, causing weight loss, crop malfunction, breathing issues, and even nerve and brain damage.

But it may be a simple crop disorder causing over fullness and this might be backing up occasionally into her larynx, causing the breathing noises.

You can't treat the first one, but a crop issue is easily treated. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Read through my article and decide which crop issue you are dealing with. If the crop is very large and hard, she may have an impacted crop, so you would start my giving her oil and massage. Hopefully, she will improve with crop treatment, and the leucosis scare is unwarranted.

The avian leucisis, if it’s that would it spread to the rest of my birds too?