My Hen is Wheezing and Sneezing after laying first egg

[ChickenBoyz]

My hen laid her first eg about 4 hours ago and now she is making a loud wheezing sound and sneezes occasionally. Is this some sort of fungal or bacterial infection, or is this shock from laying her first egg? If it is an infection, what treatments can I use for her? I am in a cold and moist area.

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you get a video of her making this noise, and post it to YouTube with a link posted here? Some chickens may get a temporary stridor when something gets into the throat, such as a piece of food, some mucus, swelling of the airway during a respiratory disease, or a foreign body. Many times that stridor will go away in a couple of hours if the food/mucus gets coughed up and swallowed. If it doesn’t go away, you might be dealing with a respiratory disease.

The common ones are infectious bronchitis, mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG,) coryza, or ILT. MG might be treated with Tylan50 injectable sold at feed stores in the cattle medicines. Syringes (3ml) with 18 or 20 gauge needles are required to get the tylan out of the bottle, then remove the needle to give it orally. It can be given orally 0.25 ml or 1/4 ml per pound 3 times daily for 3-5 days. Here is a link that has those diseases and their symptoms listed:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Probably not from shock.
It could be viral, fungal, bacterial, environmental, nutritional. What to treat with would depend on what it is.
What is the building ventilation like? How many birds? How much space? What is the bedding?

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is a YouTube video that shows what stridor sounds like beginning at 40 seconds:

 

[Eggcessive]

I also forgot to add that she might be “singing the egg song.”

 

[ChickenBoyz]

I just fed her some greek yogurt with a couple of drops of thyme extract. the video will be posted in a couple of minutes. She seems fine besides the wheezing.

 

[ChickenBoyz]

No not the egg song i have 12 hens and 2 roosters and none of them have made this sound.

 

[ChickenBoyz]

Yeah, its that exact sound from the first video thank you.

 

[ChickenBoyz]

Probably not from shock.
It could be viral, fungal, bacterial, environmental, nutritional. What to treat with would depend on what it is.
What is the building ventilation like? How many birds? How much space? What is the bedding?

An open fencing under the roof where some of the chickens roost, and the door to the cop which we leave open at night in case we miscount, which had happened when someone babysat for us, 14 birds, about 200 ft sq as an outside closed run and about a 40 sq ft area inside the coop. The bedding is woodchips and a small amount of straw in uninsulated areas.

 

[ChickenBoyz]