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Great! Sounds like a plan!

Oh wow, that is interesting! Yes, whitish stringy stuff is what I found. So that is fine? Would be great if I could use it after all - the pile is still sitting there…

Wholeheartedly disagree with this. The OP does not have an unusual amount of issues with her flock. Certainly no need to cull birds for bumble foot, the occasional worm issue or mites. Those are incredibly common. And it’s not like she wants to have a commercial flock - this is backyard chickens...

I use large pine shavings in the run but wanted to try wood chips, so I asked the tree trimmers to leave me a pile, and I let it sit for a few weeks so it wouldn’t be to aromatic and then when I wanted to use it it had gotten moldy! I would still like to try wood chips but how do you age them...

You could also try a bedding called Coop Klean (or Koop Klean? something like that). It’s chopped hay with sweet PDZ mixed in. That’s what I am using in the coop since it composts better than shavings, and it is great. Really keeps smell down, dries out the poops and I only clean out when the...

One more thing: clean water is essential for the health of the flock. The waterers you show are hard to keep clean and really need to be scrubbed at least once a day, but even then… At a minimum get them off the ground, so they can’t stick their feet in them. I can highly recommend self filling...

Didn’t somebody give you a link to the soaking treatment for bumble foot? Maybe it was a different treatment they linked to, but I remember someone on here recommend a soaking treatment that did the trick for an impossible bumble foot situation. It looks like the infection you are dealing with...

First of all - breathe! You have 50 chickens, there are bound to be some problems, it just comes with the territory. Now: you have 50 chickens in coops large enough to hold about 25 ( at 4sqft per chicken). Overcrowding is real and leads to real issues. If you have stellar circulation...