hello! we recently rescued some factory farm chickens. they are not in good shape, but we are worried for one in particular.
she is 11 months old, maybe weighs a kilogram. when she arrived she was being transported with a huge amount of other chickens, she was squished under them.
she is weak...
we use straw and live in latvia, we do not have high humidity. but i have good news - she has gotten better. these bursts have become shorter and easier for her. i have high suspicion of asthma, because her sisters also had genetic breathing problems. (they are rescues from an egg farm.)
okay so, my 2-3 year old chicken Misha has been experiencing sudden bursts of not being able to breathe. she will turn completely blue and i need to keep her next to an open window to get enough oxygen to survive this attack. it will last for 10-20 minutes before she can relax and breathe...
Personally, i let my chickens fully free roam where they want just because my area is huge and i have a fence around. Yet the chickens always gravitate towards the sunnier, greener areas, and dry dirt/sand to lay in. I'm sure the door would most likely help, but they might want to get to the...
I've had her for about a year. She was one of 20 rescues from a egg farm, so i don't know how she was treated there other than neglect. She is the brown one, sorry, couldn't get a picture of just her as they are all warming up in the sun. When i put her down after i checked for mites, she did go...
This morning when i walked into the coop, one of my rescue chickens is puffed up and not moving much. I checked it out and thought maybe she is just tired, it is early. But now it's been a few hours and it doesn't seem to be feeling better. We don't know their exact age, it is around 1.5-2 years...