**Necropsy results** Georgie is orange. Any ideas? Jaundice?

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Hello,
My Barred Rock just had the very same symptoms, very jaundice. She died after a couple of days.Didn't eat or drink, I forced some electrolytes into her but obviously didn't help.
Bertha
 
One of my brahmas is very orange and pale and has been this way for some time now. I'm really worried and don't know what to do. I will look up "yolk peritonitis" because I'm not familiar with it. But mine has never broken any bones or had any injuries. Her poop is brown. She also feels thin and is lethargic.
 
I have been searching all morning for something that would point me to a reasonable explanation for my RIR to have yellow wattles! She was picked on in the early spring & her back feathers would not grow back (I wonder if she wasn't pulling them out herself?) She seemed sick this summer (diarrhea & lethargy), so I isolated her & got her back to (presumably) normal and returned her to the flock. She came through her molt just fine (though it seemed to take her longer than the others) and today I noticed her wattles and area around her eyes are distinctly yellow/orange. She has never been injured (to my knowledge), but this is the only explanation I can find.
 
Update: We lost Baldy the following day, and that night another chicken started looking much the same. We incinerated Baldy (to prevent the spread of any potential disease), but the second chicken died, as well, so my friend that's a Vet with NYS Dept. of Ag & markets picked her up for a necropsy. Diagnosis was Avian Leukosis (cancer). I contacted the hatchery (as the disease is passed from hen to chick, then for a very short period of time horizontally from chick to chick). Since all of my chicks were shipped at a day old, it seems that all of my chickens have potentially been exposed. WHo knows how many chicks are shipped that are carrying this disease.
 

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