should my chick be constantly...yawning?

[flytie]

my chick yawns about 5 times then stops. this goes on again after awhile. HELP?

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

They can be adjusting their crops (yawning). Or it can be gasping from a respiratory disease, or gapeworm. Gapeworm is kind of rare from what I have read, and so it is most likely to be just her adjusting her crop, I am guessing.

 

[flytie]

ok, thanks, how about sneezing?

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

ok, thanks, how about sneezing?

They can sneeze from dust or illness. Or ammonia fumes in the coop.

 

[BinaryChicken]

Off topic, but I yawned when I saw this thread!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Off topic, but I yawned when I saw this thread!

Yawning is contagious LOL.

 

[casportpony]

Yawning can also be the sign of a throat infection. Had a large peachick last year that was yawing, depressed and not eating anything but soft food. Took him to the vet and she prescribed Cephalexin 250mg twice a day for 14 days.

-Kathy