Hot???

One of our hens is nearly always looking hot. She holds her wings away from her body and opens her beak. Is it because of the recent hot weather? But at the moment all the chickens look fine except for her. She's the only one who looks hot

Does anyone have any ideas as to why she's very often hot?
Thanks

Hi sneezer

Nearly each of our 19 chickens are all different colours and breeds . She is an orpington, but our other orpington who is much larger than her is fine  .

Thank you for replying, it's possibly that she is a different breed to most of the others

Hi there,
One of mine does this when she's about to lay a soft egg or having laying difficulties...but also does this when she's too hot.

It sound like she might be having problems, yes.  I posted on here a while ago with these exact symptoms and was so worried ended up bringing her in for the evening and syringing water into her beak as she kept it open and was panting, all fluffed up and wings held out...I honestly thought this was it, and she was about to keel over.  The next morning at first light i got up to see how she was doing an she'd laid 2 eggs in one go!!!  One had obviously gotten stuck whilst the other was on it's way - poor old girl, no wonder she was in pain - would be like us giving birth I guess!!

not egg bound, POSSIBLY just having some laying problems - I'm no expert however...

Have you tried some olive oil around her vent to help out?

go for it - it can't hurt....