Hen having trouble breathing

[stormrobin]

I have a red sex link hen hatched earlier this year, about March April ish. She is having a hard time breathing. Her comb is dark and her tail feathers are down. No other symptoms. I looked in her mouth looks normal. She eats, I haven’t seen her drink. I can’t feel any mass around her crop area or anywhere on her neck. I also felt to see if she was egg bound and didn’t feel anything there. She still runs from me and got away after my video I took. No runny nose eyes look good. I’m not sure exactly what is going on.

 

[Eggcessive]

Poor thing, she is gasping for air. Is there any way you could see a vet soon? Has there been any respiratory disease in your flock before or any Newcastles disease in your area? I would get some SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer from your local feed store and give her 1.25 ml daily for 5 days. That would treat for gapeworm. Do you have any antibiotics that would treat a respiratory disease, such as Tylosin or Tylan? Have you had any mold in the coop?

 

[stormrobin]

Poor thing, she is gasping for air. Is there any way you could see a vet soon? Has there been any respiratory disease in your flock before or any Newcastles disease in your area? I would get some SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer from your local feed store and give her 1.25 ml daily for 5 days. That would treat for gapeworm. Do you have any antibiotics that would treat a respiratory disease, such as Tylosin or Tylan? Have you had any mold in the coop?

I can get antibiotics from a vet, but even the large animal vets around here don’t really see chickens. Over the last four years I’ve had some runny noses and sneezes here or there, but nothing that the whole flock seemed to get. I haven’t heard of Newcastles around here but I could be for sure. She’s free range at the moment because a tree took out the door and netting to her coop. I can grab some wormer in the morning. She was fine as far as I could see, earlier in the afternoon, about 1 or 2, running around with her buddies. No one else in the flock is presenting any symptoms when I left for work. Is it possible this is a symptom of her eating/ getting into something toxic?

 

[Samblast]

This may not be the news you want to Hear but I lost a 3 year old RIR hen from something like this in a matter of minutes. from research I’ve done my hen had a heart attack. Your hen is having respiratory problem for sure. No idea on treatment. Has her comb ever seemed purple in the past? Like at the end or the tips?

 

[stormrobin]

This may not be the news you want to Hear but I lost a 3 year old RIR hen from something like this in a matter of minutes. from research I’ve done my hen had a heart attack. Your hen is having respiratory problem for sure. No idea on treatment. Has her comb ever seemed purple in the past? Like at the end or the tips?

no I have never noticed it go dark/ purple before today, I kinda figured it was a lack of oxygen causing that color.

 

[Samblast]

It’s probably a new development then. My hen had respiratory problems her whole life and every once and a while I’d see the tips of her comb being purple. We tried treating with antibiotics a vet prescribed but they never worked. Eventually her system failed. I don’t know much of treatment but I’m sure many on this site know a lot. Good luck