New member! And question

[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. The Best of Luck with your Hen. And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska!

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[Nomadicus]

Hello and Welcome to BYC. Glad to have you here in this Poultry Lovers Community.

 

[janiedoe]

Welcome to BYC. I hope she recovers quickly!

 

[chrissynemetz]

Hello, and welcome to BYC! It's very nice to meet you!

 

[swampfox440]

Hi, pleased to meet you, thanks for joining us! Welcome to BYC! I hope you can resolve any issues you are having with your birds.

 

[triciayoung]

Hi everyone,

I just joined today. I am a new chicken owner. I got 5 chicks in December to house indoors until spring. They are Dino Nuggie (12 week old olive egger), Fancy Pants (10 week old barred rock and seemingly the leader), Hershey (9 week chocolate Orpington), Posh Spice (9 week black australorp), and Princess Teeny (9 week cream legbar).

Princess has always been on the small end and at one point I thought maybe she had failure to thrive as she also appeared sickly. She’s made it this far and is still small, but has her feathers and mohawk and keeps up with the rest. 2 days ago she began making a strange wheezing sound. She wants to preen, drink and eat, but her crop doesn’t feel full and she is clearly having a hard time. It’s almost like something is stuck in her throat. I did a little research and gave her a little olive oil this morning to help get things moving if that was the case. I’m attaching a video link. Any ideas? I’m afraid I may be losing her.

Teeny

Thank you!

You can discreetly test her for respiratory disorders with only a swab here, and then get appropriate treatment for your results: https://www.vetdna.com/. Mine had similar symptoms. I had to do 5-tests, and expected MG, but they were negative for both MG's. I finally found out they tested positive for infectious coryza.

 

[Tookie]

Hello, welcome to BYC! Good luck with your girl.