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    Hen breathing heavy and making noises with each breath

    My hen Dharma sounded just like the silkie in the video you posted. Must have been stridor. She was fine by morning. I’ve never encountered stridor before so I rather panicked. Her crop was mostly empty, her belly normal, and she doesn’t lay anymore. Nothing abnormal about her beak or mouth...
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    Help....Hen making crying noise when breathing!!

    My hen is having the same symptoms right now. Hopefully it will clear up soon…. I’m glad your hen was ok!!
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    Hen breathing heavy and making noises with each breath

    My 3 1/2 yo Bielefelder is making strange noises with each breath almost like colic…. Laying down, breathing heavy. Sneezing occasionally too. Open mouth breathing occasionally too. I brought her inside where it’s warm and offered electrolytes. I don’t know what else to do for her. None of...
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    Hello, I’m new to the forum

    Thank you. Greta was laying shell-less eggs for a couple of weeks when I also noticed what seemed like a swollen abdomen. Avian vet thought she probably had an infection in her reproductive tract (and thought the extra fullness was fat) so we started antibiotics and anti-inflammatories which...
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    Do you Clean out poop from the run?

    Sorry I seem to have posted my reply to the original post rather weirdly…. No idea how I managed that…. My daughter will be so embarrassed by my tech disability.
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    Do you Clean out poop from the run?

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    Soft eggs then death

    Thank you for your kind reply. I feed them organic layer crumble from Modesto Milling, a small scoop of organic scratch, and a handful of Grublies daily. I always have oyster shell out for them and I feed them their ground egg shells (when they are laying). Once or twice a week I give them kale...
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    Hen died after dropping shell-less eggs for several weeks

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    Hen died after dropping shell-less eggs for several weeks

    My 2 year old Whiting True Green, Greta, died a couple weeks ago. She had been laying “mistake eggs”, my daughter and I call them. She was dropping eggs without shells. It took a while to figure out which of my six hens was doing it. Then, I noticed Greta’s belly seemed swollen so I took her...
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    Hello, I’m new to the forum

    I’m Rachel, I’m in the California Bay Area, and I have five hens which I raised from chicks. They’re two years old. I have a Silver Wyandotte, a Golden Wyandotte, a Red Star, a Bielefelder, and a Golden Campine. I had Greta, the Whiting True Green, but she sadly passed away a few weeks ago...
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    Soft eggs then death

    You asked about excess abdominal fat. I had a hen die after dropping shell-less eggs for about a month and she did have excess abdominal fat. The avian vet tried antibiotics and anti-inflammatory meds and they seemed to help (started laying eggs with shells, not good quality shells though)...
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