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Right! Same thing in humans in most cases with rare exception. Fatty liver is assoc with obesity, T2 diabetes (metabolic syndrome), high cholesterol.Fatty liver isn't common in free ranged chickens. They eat a lot of bugs and grass which are healthy. Fatty liver is linked to High-energy diets in layers that get little to no exercise.Free ranging lowers their risks
Fatty liver does not occur overnight, or in a week or two. I can see it occurring in a month of high carbs and sedentary activity in chickens- like broilers, but it is not something that kill the bird without some other sign, and those signs would be heart failure- shortness of breath, duskiness/purple comb with minimal activity, fluid around heart on organ exam).
My girls never had that- it has to be toxicity of some kind.
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