Weird puffing sound from chick! Pls help, not sure what’s happening!

[Myrshine]

From my experience, I’ve heard ALL chicks sound like this. It’s just their trachea opening and closing to their chirps.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

From my experience, I’ve heard ALL chicks sound like this. It’s just their trachea opening and closing to their chirps.

This is not normal at all. No chick should be regularly gasping for breath or tilting it's head back. This is a clear sign of respiratory distress.

 

[Dimondel]

This is not normal at all. No chick should be regularly gasping for breath or tilting it's head back. This is a clear sign of respiratory distress.

Yes I thought so too...

 

[Lizzy733]

Just a shot in the dark here, but when an air cell is ruptured, it will leak straight into the lungs - I've seen what happens when a subcutaneous fluid injection goes wrong and it's not pretty, which is why we pull back on the plunger to ensure there's a vacuum before injecting.

Could the ruptured air sac have caused a fluid buildup that has seeped into the lungs, which is now causing a pneumonia or wet lung sort of scenario?

I would have no idea what an appropriate remedy would be for this though aside from treating it like human pneumonia and hoping for the best.

 

[Dimondel]

Just a shot in the dark here, but when an air cell is ruptured, it will leak straight into the lungs - I've seen what happens when a subcutaneous fluid injection goes wrong and it's not pretty, which is why we pull back on the plunger to ensure there's a vacuum before injecting.

Could the ruptured air sac have caused a fluid buildup that has seeped into the lungs, which is now causing a pneumonia or wet lung sort of scenario?

I would have no idea what an appropriate remedy would be for this though aside from treating it like human pneumonia and hoping for the best.

I have no idea, it very well could be, poor thing.

 

[Dimondel]

Is it important for me to gently massage the air bubbles in order to release/reduce them or will this be harmful to the chick? Cause that’s what I’ve been doing so far.