Hen yawning and sneezing

[siggimatti]

We have three chickens and I have noticed that one of them is quite often "yawning". Normally she does it only once but in the video she did it a couple of times in a row and more exaggerated than other times.

Then there is the sneezing. All of our chickens have little sneezes where you can see a bit of snot come out and I don't know if that's normal. Here however this hen sneezed pretty violently three times in quick succession and then one last sneeze which I caught on video after hearing the other sneezes.

Is this normal or should I be worrying about them?

 

[Eggcessive]

If you have multiple chickens with sneezing and nasal drainage, there is probably a respiratory disease going through your flock. It could be infectious bronchitis, or if there are any eye bubbles or swollen eyelids, it might be MG (mycoplasma gallisepticum.) MG symptoms may respond to Tylosin powder in the water or Tylan 50 injectable given orally 1/4 ml 3 times a day for 5 days.

The gaping can be a sign of adjusting the crop, a crop disorder, or more rarely, gapeworm. Gapeworm is very rare, so I would check the crop early in the morning to see if it has emptied overnight.