My buff Orpington can’t close her beak

[homeschoolhomestead]

This morning my Goldie can’t close her mouth, and vomited earlier today. She is holding her tongue far back in her mouth and occasionally looks like she’s choking. I tried dripping drops of water in her beak and she lets them run out. She doesn’t seem to be eating or drinking. Her crop feels empty. I suspect she’s swallowed a foreign body but don’t know what to do about it as this is the first time I’ve owned chickens. What can I do to help her?

 

[Blue Raptor]

This morning my Goldie can’t close her mouth, and vomited earlier today. She is holding her tongue far back in her mouth and occasionally looks like she’s choking. I tried dripping drops of water in her beak and she lets them run out. She doesn’t seem to be eating or drinking. Her crop feels empty. I suspect she’s swallowed a foreign body but don’t know what to do about it as this is the first time I’ve owned chickens. What can I do to help her?

Does she seems to be choking? Is she gasping for breath? Can you see anything when you look down her throat?

 

[homeschoolhomestead]

Does she seems to be choking? Is she gasping for breath? Can you see anything when you look down her throat?

She occasionally looks like she’s choking, and her neck is holding a very curved position, like she won’t hold her neck up properly. She’s not gasping for breath and I can’t see anything down her throat.

 

[Blue Raptor]

Does she seems to be choking? Is she gasping for breath? Can you see anything when you look down her throat?

If she is she may have gapeworms, what does her crop feel like, exactly?

 

[homeschoolhomestead]

If she is she may have gapeworms, what does her crop feel like, exactly?

It doesn’t feel like anything. It feels so empty I can hardly locate it.

 

[homeschoolhomestead]

They can cause the beak to stay open like that?

 

[Blue Raptor]

It doesn’t feel like anything. It feels so empty I can hardly locate it.

Do you think she might have gapeworms?

 

[Blue Raptor]

They can cause the beak to stay open like that?

yes.

 

[homeschoolhomestead]

Do you think she might have gapeworms?

I am researching them now. I am a first time chicken owner so I have a lot of learning to do.

 

[Blue Raptor]

Do you think she might have gapeworms?

You can treat gapeworms with this: safeguard. Just give her a pea-sized amount on a peice of food for temptation.