I just got some chicks in May, first time ever raising hens. The started laying a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I noticed Ruby was not her normal self, she is not moving much- is very slow, half her face is swollen and the other side looks normal. Her comb is limp. Her breathing is laboured. Her poo was clear with the urate mixed in and sort of jelly like- not really watery. The rest of the girls are fine and normal. She laid an egg yesterday and has been laying regularly. Not sure what this could be, from online searches, maybe Coryza?
I put some watered down nutridrench in a syringe and gave her a little of that, most falls out without her trying to swallow it really.
She is still standing though so I am hopeful. Doesn’t seem to have lost weight but this is just the first day she’s been sick.