Wheezing Chicken

Help! Misty is sick! D:

She was fine yesterday but today she's started act strangely. She makes this suffocating noise and scratches her head a lot. Her poop ranges from watery pellets to mushy green blob. She's a free range chicken, and eats chicken crumbles along with whatever she forages... like bugs and grass and stuff. I'm terrified she got gapeworm somehow. I tried to look down her throat but could not see anything, but she wasn't very cooperative so I couldn't look very long.

I fed her some yogurt but otherwise she doesn't seem to have much of an appetite, wont really eat or drink. Any tips or diagnoses are appreciated.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• sick
• chicken
• wheezing

[lpunchya]

she has a respitory infection he cant breath right, you might want to give her some antibiotics.

[xoxoAnny]

@lpunchya thanks for taking the time to help, and sorry for the late response. Someone on backyardchickens forum suggested the same thing, so I tried it back then and she's doing fine and been healthy since.

[kacielovesbebe2]

thats a beautiful chicken! ive had that before and shes fine... it lasdted about 2-3mths :D

[Teemingmasses]

Glad she got better!

[NarcoticIce]

Such a cute chicken :)

[oc68er]

I have been dealing with the same thing the past couple of days with one of my birds. I finally started my whole flock on antibiotics. If my eyes were closed I wouldn't be able to tell that is not my chicken in the video... sounds exactly like that! Fingers crossed that 1) my inflicted bird will recover shortly 2) it won't spread. (at first I thought the sound was coming from a frog or something, so when I found out it was my chick... I did laugh at first)

[animefanaticgirl1]

no offense but it sounds funny