Hello,
I’m just putting this out there for you to watch to show how I tried to help my chicken.
I am trying to upload video but it will only allow me to upload a photo, am I missing something?
Initially, I was with the guinea pigs watching them forage for the first time and that’s why I was in our outdoor coop run.
The ladies and Miss Shirley were in the dust bath (inside white picket fence) and I heard coughing. I got up and saw Miss Shirley poop as she was shaking her head and neck and coughing.
I went over and I thought Miss Shirley had Gape Worm as one of my other chickens last year had it, but this was different, so I started to record it.
Then I realized it wasn’t gape worm, Miss Shirley was choking.
I quickly called my husband because I needed help. I wanted him to help me so I could get my reading glasses on and a flashlight and something to grab whatever was down her throat.
That’s when the video ends.
K
I took her into the sunlight and could see clearly down her throat and didn’t need a flashlight. I saw Nothing.
Then I went up and down her throat to palpate and see if I felt anything, but I didn’t. I turned her upside down and patted heavy on her back and on her gizzard to see if anything would move up or down. It didn’t help.
She gasped for about five minutes total.
It was very emotional, I felt so helpless!
While I was patting her down, my husband was researching and he said they do not have a diaphragm so I could not do a Heimlich maneuver.
He said everything I was doing is what the internet said to do. I tried my best, but whatever it was was not budging.
Please don’t tear me a new one. It happened very quickly and I tried my best. My chickens are all very healthy, have a 2 acre pasture to roam around in, are fed as organic as possible, rest under the areca palms and want for nothing. I love my flock so much, and this was very upsetting, but at least Miss Shirley knew I tried to help and she didn’t die alone.
I’m just putting this out there for you to watch to show how I tried to help my chicken.
I am trying to upload video but it will only allow me to upload a photo, am I missing something?
Initially, I was with the guinea pigs watching them forage for the first time and that’s why I was in our outdoor coop run.
The ladies and Miss Shirley were in the dust bath (inside white picket fence) and I heard coughing. I got up and saw Miss Shirley poop as she was shaking her head and neck and coughing.
I went over and I thought Miss Shirley had Gape Worm as one of my other chickens last year had it, but this was different, so I started to record it.
Then I realized it wasn’t gape worm, Miss Shirley was choking.
I quickly called my husband because I needed help. I wanted him to help me so I could get my reading glasses on and a flashlight and something to grab whatever was down her throat.
That’s when the video ends.
K
I took her into the sunlight and could see clearly down her throat and didn’t need a flashlight. I saw Nothing.
Then I went up and down her throat to palpate and see if I felt anything, but I didn’t. I turned her upside down and patted heavy on her back and on her gizzard to see if anything would move up or down. It didn’t help.
She gasped for about five minutes total.
It was very emotional, I felt so helpless!
While I was patting her down, my husband was researching and he said they do not have a diaphragm so I could not do a Heimlich maneuver.
He said everything I was doing is what the internet said to do. I tried my best, but whatever it was was not budging.
Please don’t tear me a new one. It happened very quickly and I tried my best. My chickens are all very healthy, have a 2 acre pasture to roam around in, are fed as organic as possible, rest under the areca palms and want for nothing. I love my flock so much, and this was very upsetting, but at least Miss Shirley knew I tried to help and she didn’t die alone.
