Help my chx is lathargic and gasping for air

[penna ave farm]

She hasnt moved, she has had a watery and white discharge and is gasping for air

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Too hot is my first thought. If your heat lamp is too big for area or you don't provide an area in brooder that is cooler they will overheat, gasp and expire eventually. Check temperature, don't use infrared heat lamps and provide cooler side to brooder. Immediately I'd turn off the heat lamp and make sure the chick drinks cool water then figure out the brooder situation.

 

[penna ave farm]

Her eyes are swollen and she is have abnormal discharge, that can be from overhearing?
The chickens are free range it was 80 today she is the only one showing symptoms

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Let me bump this for you. I thought your were talking about chicks in a brooder. You mean hen.

 

[penna ave farm]

Yes

 

[junebuggena]

Sudden, drastic changes in temperature can kill chickens. And some are more sensitive to fluctuations than others.