HELP MAMA HENS ARE SOUNDING WHEEZY!

[joannlynn82]

HELP! So I have some broody hens. 4 of them. Cochins and Polish mix. They are about 2 1/2 years old. Hatchlings from my orbital flock. 2 are doing great they have teamed up as new mommies and have 10 chicks between the 2 of them. These 4 hens are staying in the coop with fresh food and water daily. One of them has 3 chicks and the other one has 9 fertilized eggs and hasn't hatched one yet. Well these 2 hens have started wheezing bad!! It's scaring me to death! They weren't doing it this morning. No new chickens have been introduced. They haven't been out of the coop in almost 2 weeks. Fresh shavings, I clean up the large piles of poo. I gave them some bread with olive oil about an hour ago still wheezing. Although one of them too a massive poop! Help!!

 

[0wen]

How fresh are the shavings? Assuming pine or aspen? Could be dust if they've been in there for a couple of weeks on new bedding. Any discharge from nostrils or beak or just sneezing? Breathing normal or is it raspy?

 

[joannlynn82]

Newer pine shavings, no discharge from beak or nostrils. Raspy breathing. Sounds kinda like gargling