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Welcome to BYC! I am no expert, but the color of her liver looks wrong and looks like she has a larger than normal amount of fat. let me see if I can find someone that processes a lot of meat birds to comment.I don’t know if I’m in the correct post, please bear with me. I have had 4 young, healthy chickens die recently. I finally was able to do a necropsy and will post my pictures here to not offend anyone. I think they are getting an impacted crop, but I do not know tha anatomy of a chicken as well as I know human anatomy. Anyways, I recently got a new brand of wood shavings and they appear to have a lot of “fines” along with the flakes. I did tell the store I was using them to bed chickens and this is what they sold me. I do give them some scratch twice a day, and was also worried about rats. This is my first necropsy and I just kinda winged it, so bear with me.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dying-chicken-with-bloody-vent.1219521/#post-19502015