VIDEO: My Chicken Just Passed Away, was Gasping or Choking Before

[jvilla]

I'm new with chickens, about 3-4wks with four adult chickens. Everything has been fine until Saturday morning when I was letting them out of the coop. You can see from the video what one of them was doing. I had no idea what was going on and gave it time. I even put a bowl of water next to her. After about 10mins or so she slowly started laying her head down and gave her last breaths :-(
I have no idea what happened. We gave her a proper burial.

From what I read online she could have choked on something or she might have suffered from Gapeworm. Dont see any of the other chickens with coughing or stretching/straining neck (gapeworm symptoms).
Any input on what it could be?
Thanks!

 

[speckledhen]

That is a red sexlink and it appears that her abdomen is really large. What you were probably seeing was her trying to breathe her last few breaths with the pull on her organs of lots of fluid/infection inside, which had progressed to her lungs. I've been there so many times, I don't even like to recall. She probably was suffering from egg yolk peritonitis/internal laying.