HELP wheezing chicken can’t breathe!!!

[Eggcessive]

I wish I had more advice. Some use a nebulizer or vaporizer if one is available. If you lose her I would do a necropsy just to look in her trachea for yellow pus or red Y-shaped gapeworms. Respiratory viruses can be severe. Have you added any new birds recently?

 

[zenstarling]

I wish I had more advice. Some use a nebulizer or vaporizer if one is available. If you lose her I would do a necropsy just to look in her trachea for yellow pus or red Y-shaped gapeworms. Respiratory viruses can be severe. Have you added any new birds recently?

I really appreciate all your help. Nobody has been added since new chicks spring of 2024. I’ve been checking on the rest of the flock and nobody is sneezing, at least not yet. Very tough, this one is really struggling. It’s hard not knowing what to do.

 

[Eggcessive]

You might want to check if there is anything stuck in a nostril that could be irritating and causing the sneezing. Have you seen any wild birds around your feeders or waterers?

 

[zenstarling]

You might want to check if there is anything stuck in a nostril that could be irritating and causing the sneezing. Have you seen any wild birds around your feeders or waterers?

I’ll try to check that. she is struggling to breathe with her mouth open though.

their feeders are inside their hardware cloth run, and they get out to forage in tractors where the water is enclosed, but no doubt there are birds nearby where they are foraging.