Help! My Buff Orpington hen is sick!!

[MissChick@dee]

I bow down and out to @MissChick@dee who I am sure has a ton more experience than I. Glad you showed up babe . Thinking that all of my well intended advice may not be on the mark. I am in a warm climate and 99.9% of my issues have been with nasty parasites and Corid is my #1 go to and #1 solution. Please post some photos of hen and update her condition so that she can be more accurately diagnosed- short of a vet.

Oh! No! Anything I’ve learned has been the hard way...trust me lol. That’s the thing with chickens...it’s all good till it’s not, then ya got some type of problem. I’m by no means an expert in fact I’m very simple and straightforward. Don’t confuse me with too much information cause my head will hurt and I’ll forget which end of the chicken I’m looking at.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Oh! No! Anything I’ve learned has been the hard way...trust me lol. That’s the thing with chickens...it’s all good till it’s not, then ya got some type of problem. I’m by no means an expert in fact I’m very simple and straightforward. Don’t confuse me with too much information cause my head will hurt and I’ll forget which end of the chicken I’m looking at.

lol. I hope I did not sound stuck-up or fussy . I just did not want to add to the confusion. Unfortunately, it is hard to mostly guess through a drawn out writing process... what could be wrong with a patient who does not speak??!! I think @Moragirls is in capable hands

 

[Moragirls]

Hi ladies !!

Just an update pumpkin is doing very good!

She is out of quarantine lol and back with her sisters.

Thank you all for your help !

 

[MissChick@dee]

Thanks for the update

 

[Cragg Klefor]

Hi ladies !!

Just an update pumpkin is doing very good!

She is out of quarantine lol and back with her sisters.

Thank you all for your help !

Great to hear that @Moragirls
It may have been nothing at all, but you were totally right to question it especially when it also involved her breathing. I suspect it was just grass in her crop which she managed to expel herself - which is not always the case.. They normally do ok in grass so long as they have grit available to them to help break it down.

Best of luck with her and the rest of your flock and make sure to update if anything further is noticed!

 

[Eggcessive]

This sounds more like a respiratory infection to me. Not worms, not coccidiosis. Raspy breathing is usually respiratory. Gapeworms are rare, they cannot be seen in the airway or by putting a QTip to swab the throat, and gapeworm causes severe distress breathing where chickens cannot eat or drink. Worming her is fine, but just get a safe product such as Valbazen or SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer and give a dose, then repeat it in 10 days. No need for an initial treatment with Wazine. Ivermectin has lost some of it’s effectiveness in worming, so I would just tick with Valbazen or SafeGuard. Or get a fecal float by a vet to see if worms are even a problem. I think she has a virus such as infectious bronchitis more likely than worms. Slight changes in the weather, dust or mold, or getting a piece of food stuck in the throat can make a chicken sound stridorous or wheezy.

Respiratory diseases are very common and may cause raspy breathing, rales, wheezes, stridor, head shaking, sneezing, or coughing. She sounds mildly sick at this time.

I would make sure that she is drinking plenty of water. Offer a little choopped egg, and if she is not eating well, add some water to a small bowl of feed, and a tsp of plain yogurt mixed well for probiotics.

You can keep her warm if she appears to be chilled. Do you hear any sneezing? A video posted to YouTube with a link posted here is a good way for us to see what you see. Are any other birds showing similar symptoms?ACV in water is harmless, but is nit going to help with a respiratory disease. I would stop the Corid in the water.