Help! Something is wrong with my hen and I don't know what it is. She's breathing hard and acting li

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Well, it's very weird. I think maybe she might have fallen off the perch, and she was temporarily shocked and scared and probably a little hurt from falling too. I have been going out and checking on her periodically while waiting on some answers, and I had sat her down on the floor next to her box that she lays her eggs in, on the hay, and every time I would go check on her, she was still sitting in the same place. I think the reason she was acting like she was, is because she fell off. She's not used to being up there alone, she's used to having Fancy Pants (the rooster that got took off day before yesterday), and her sister, Pretty Girl, up there beside her. I think she was just shocked from the fall. When I went over there a little bit ago to check her again, and start to try giving her the tums, she was walking around acting normal, and no egg in the nest, so I think she was just really scared and shocked and also it was in the middle of the night when all this started happening. She seems fine now and even running from me. I'm making her some scrambled eggs and putting the tums on them, just in case though. But I really think she is fine now. I'll let you know if anything else happens. Going to keep a close check on her today! Thank you all very much for your help. I was so scared, and it sounded just like the egg bound. I was getting ready to check her. Never done that before. I think she is fine though. I'll give an update later on. Going to go now and feed her some eggs. Thanks :D
 
Update! She has been fine all day today and tonight, acting normal and laid her regular egg today at the regular time. Seems to have no problem. Think she just scooted off the roost because she is used to the rooster and her sister being up there with her and she stayed in the middle. She was probably scooting over in the night trying to get next to the rooster and fell off the end, and it just shocked her and scared her to death. She fell on the concrete floor so it probably hurt, but no damage. Thanks for all the help! Don't know what I would do without you all for advise and moral support during these times. These chickens are like children to me. I love them every one like my babies! Can't stand it when something is wrong with one of them. :)

Update on my other girl that is her sister, who got attacked by something about 3 days ago. She drinks some, but not eating anything. Got some yogurt today for her going to try to give her some tonight along with her medicated water with electrolytes in it. Giving her Tetracycline in her water and asprin separately in syringe without needle everyday, and cleaning her wound with diluted Betadine and warm water, then smearing on Neosporin ointment or Polysporin all over. She is breathing fine and alert, but won't eat. Worried about that. :/
 
So glad to read that your chicken is doing better and hopefully you other girl starts to eat for you....I know what you mean about not being able to stand it when you have a sick family member, I say family member as that is what they become 'Family' :)
 
Glad to her she is better......I had a coon kill some of mine one night and for about a week the whole flock was out of whack. They would go back in at night and they would roost in a tree in our yard. THey had stopped laying and were so skiddish I couldn't even get close to them.
 
Well, I thought it was all over, and everything has been fine with her and she's had no more episodes. She has been laying as usual an egg almost every day. We have been leaving her in on the screened porch mostly, but do let her out to ramble around the yard on days that someone is out there with her to watch her so that she don't go into the woods and to keep the predator away. It's been so sad. We have lost 6 chickens so far because of this predator. We have baited 3 live traps and they have been out, and we've so far caught a Tom cat, and a baby skunk, which I do not believe either were the culprit in these murders. I'm thinking it is a owl. Every one except for the rooster "Fancy Pants", and the attacked hen I've been treating (his sister Little Pretty Girl), have all been gotten inside the pen, with the heads gone, and left at the steps of the chicken house. The chicken yard is fenced in, but the chicken house was not. (it is a playhouse, converted into a coop), and has plastic all around every open spot except for the door is open. I believe the thing is going inside the house while they are on roost and getting them. We have a light that stays on in the chicken house to deter predators, but hasn't worked apparently. It is not happening in the daytime, thinking in the wee hours of the morning while still dark. We now have wired up all the openings and made a door to close them in at night. Just wish we had been able to do that before all but the rooster "Harry" and the RRI "Red Riding Hood" were killed.
Anyway, back to the hen "Little Pretty Sister"...she had another episode just like the first one, she was laying on her side breathing hard with mouth open. I brought her in an held her a while. Tried to give her some Cephlexin in a dropper, but she only could take about 2 drops. She did at one point cackle, and a bit of brownish liquid ran out of her mouth 2 times, and about the same time, she passed an egg, that broke when it came out, and had appearance of some runny poop too. She was very hot on her back and legs. Her top knot is red, with a small gray spot on it. Her nose is not running and she is not sneezing, but have seen her sneeze once or twice at different periods far between, not usual, and not something she does regularly, just kind of like something made her sneeze. The weather has been cold at night, and she has been left alone on the roost, so I'm wondering if she may have caught a cold or something, but no runny nose or regular sneezing. After she passed the egg and threw up some, I waited a while and then sat her bottom in the sink of warm water, and washed off all the mess. Her breathing was less labored and she seemed that she felt better. I dried her off with a towel and sat her on a doggie pee pad and wrapped her in that and a towel good, and put a cool wet washrag on her skin on her back to cool down the fever some, and held her that way for a long time. She seemed to feel better and breathe better and was going to sleep. It was about till 3:00am. When she appeared to be calmer and feeling better, I left her wrapped up but took the rag off and put her in a clothes basket to sleep for the night in here by my bed. She slept okay, and this morning was alert and appeared to be breathing pretty normally, but still acting like she can't stand up, but her legs are not stiff like last night.
Note: The first night of her episode, that day, I had put her in a different pen where other chickens had been going in and out, but she was in there alone. Chickens do not stay in that pen, they just go through it every now and then. She is about a year old, so she's not a baby, so I would think that Cocsidiosis wouldn't be the problem, but don't know, but that was the first time she had anything wrong with her. After that first episode that night, that she got over all by herself, there has not been another until last night, and it was just like the first, except she didn't throw up or lay an egg during the first. I have no idea what the problem could be. Would Cocsidiosis happen that fast from that day in that pen to have that episode that night, and not have another episode until last night, which has been over a week? I do have some Corid, and also some Tylan 50 and some wormer, just don't know what it could be or what to do about it. Can you give any insight anyone? Thank y'all for your help. I know this is kind of long, but was trying to explain everything that has happened lately to the poor girl.
 
A new development. She is walking some now and is not breathing hard anymore, but seems to be not very surefooted. I went into the pen to clean up some of the corn around on the floor, thinking that maybe she had eaten some ruined or soured corn, and I saw a couple of pieces of that green rat poison (Final Bite stuff). I'm thinking maybe she got ahold of a piece of that or something. Do you think? Could she survive that? What do you do in a case like that. She did throw up a little bit twice last night and seems much better today, so is she out of the woods if that was the case, or do I need to do something to counteract that? If she did, it must not have been much. There were only a couple of pieces that I believe a mouse had brought outside from inside the house, cause we don't put it on the outside at all, but they do transport it from place to place. :(
 

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