Here is a photo of my buff Orpington chicken. She is 12 weeks old. Lately I've heard and seen her sneezing. At first it was maybe once every 2-5 minutes, but then today I saw her sneezing like 5 times in one minute.
Physically she looks ok, very healthy feathers, comb, etc, and her diet is very healthy. No hunching, lethargic looking, and her poop seems fine except that its a little watery because of heat stress.
These past 3 days have been extremely hot and humid, with the sun beating down on them all day. In their coop it is nice and shady, but since I only have 2 windows ventilation wise, it gets very very very hot in there. They stay in the run, where it's a little cooler but still very hot, throughout the day, and most of the time they just chill in the shady part of the run. I've been giving them ice water several times a day to cool them off, and this smoothie type thing that I made with ice, kale and strawberries.
All my chickens really like the smoothie, but I feel like right after Buff Orpington ate it, her sneezing seemed to get worse. The sneezes before I've heard are like very sudden, loud-ish short clicks, like "PUCK!" But now just today, when her sneezing became more severe after the smoothie, it sounded more like a spray bottle spraying water when you press on it.
I've seen videos of chickens sneezing and this doesn't sound like those. She doesn't make a cute "Choo!" Sound. Her nose is completely dry, not runny. Eyes are fine, also not runny when she sneezes. Just dry sneezes that sound wet or weird.
I aparently can't put videos on this thread, so I don't know exactly how to describe it to you guys but anyway, what do you guys think?
Physically she looks ok, very healthy feathers, comb, etc, and her diet is very healthy. No hunching, lethargic looking, and her poop seems fine except that its a little watery because of heat stress.
These past 3 days have been extremely hot and humid, with the sun beating down on them all day. In their coop it is nice and shady, but since I only have 2 windows ventilation wise, it gets very very very hot in there. They stay in the run, where it's a little cooler but still very hot, throughout the day, and most of the time they just chill in the shady part of the run. I've been giving them ice water several times a day to cool them off, and this smoothie type thing that I made with ice, kale and strawberries.
All my chickens really like the smoothie, but I feel like right after Buff Orpington ate it, her sneezing seemed to get worse. The sneezes before I've heard are like very sudden, loud-ish short clicks, like "PUCK!" But now just today, when her sneezing became more severe after the smoothie, it sounded more like a spray bottle spraying water when you press on it.
I've seen videos of chickens sneezing and this doesn't sound like those. She doesn't make a cute "Choo!" Sound. Her nose is completely dry, not runny. Eyes are fine, also not runny when she sneezes. Just dry sneezes that sound wet or weird.
I aparently can't put videos on this thread, so I don't know exactly how to describe it to you guys but anyway, what do you guys think?
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