Help! Chicken making weird noises

[Annaafranqueza]

I’m afraid she is sick, making a hard breathing sound.

 

[BaaKaaawk]

That sounds like a normal chicken noise to me. She's just letting you know you've got her in your lap and she is aware of it. We'll see what others say- but many of my hens make the same noise, usually when I'm holding them.

 

[Annaafranqueza]

That sounds like a normal chicken noise to me. She's just letting you know you've got her in your lap and she is aware of it. We'll see what others say- but many of my hens make the same noise, usually when I'm holding them.

I only held her so people would only hear her sound. She’s puffed up and laying down, not sure if it’s coccidiosis. None of them made that noise before either

 

[Eggcessive]

It looks like you were rubbing close to her crop while she was bocalizing, and that might have made some crop contents come up in her throat a bit, making it sound different. We can actually make them regurgitate if they have a full crop after eating and drinking, so we have to be careful.

 

[Annaafranqueza]

It looks like you were rubbing close to her crop while she was bocalizing, and that might have made some crop contents come up in her throat a bit, making it sound different. We can actually make them regurgitate if they have a full crop after eating and drinking, so we have to be careful.

I was trying to see if she had something stuck in her crop, she was making that same noise in the coop without being touched.

 

[Eggcessive]

It doesn’t sound abnormal. Chickens can have stridor when they get a small crumble of food stuck in the airway, but it usually goes away unless they have a respiratory infection. Stridor sounds like this: