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    Updated! - Test Your Diagnostic Skills - Warning, Contains Graphic Necropsy Photos

    The food I was feeding is gone now. I switched to the runnings brand, which I think is made by nutrena. Food 10 birds I was feeding about .5-1 lbs of scratch grains to them a day. They consistently received scratch after about 13 weeks old. Should I feed a higher protein content feed like starter?
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    Updated! - Test Your Diagnostic Skills - Warning, Contains Graphic Necropsy Photos

    That mass is an unlaid egg. When I removed it the other two yolks along with some blood clots were visible. I did wash her out because the yolks were making a mess.
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    Updated! - Test Your Diagnostic Skills - Warning, Contains Graphic Necropsy Photos

    The breed is either isa or ri. I got them in August at tractor supply. I have been feeding dumor crumbles 16% and sometimes pellets 16% (same brand). I would go through about a bag a week with crumbles for about 28 birds. The store was out of crumbles and I got the pellets and i have been going...
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    Updated! - Test Your Diagnostic Skills - Warning, Contains Graphic Necropsy Photos

    Ok. I was thinking that that was a lot of fat. They are about 6 months old and the liver did just fall apart when I moved it. Ok. I will stop feeding scratch to them. I have another coop with 1 brown RI and about 16 leghorns and I have fed them since chicks the same way. Strange. I do leave grit...
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    Dying chicken with bloody vent

    They cannot get to the rat poison. It is in plastic boxes outside of the coop. Also, I have not actually seen a rat, but there are some suspicious holes/burrows near the coops. I usually feed either TSC dumar crumbles 16%, runnings brand crumbles 16% or country max brand crumbles 16%. Sometimes...
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    Updated! - Test Your Diagnostic Skills - Warning, Contains Graphic Necropsy Photos

    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...
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    Dying chicken with bloody vent

    Ok. So found another dead one today. I did my own necropsy (without watching videos). I took lots of pics and will post them on the other thread. She had a bloody vent but not tearing of the skin and did not look like she was bit by anything. She also had an egg she wasn’t able to lay. The liver...
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    Dying chicken with bloody vent

    Ok. I just spoke with my Vet and he says he is not chicken expert, but would cut her up to see if he can see anything. We further discussed possibilities and came up with a couple more differentials. I recently bought wood shavings and bedded down both coops. The shavings were Langebec brand and...
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    Dying chicken with bloody vent

    Thanks. That may make sense, although I have had a death in the morning and then again in the afternoon. I have been putting TomCat bait around the feed room. Maybe I have drove them to the chickens... I have seen some strange burrowing around the outsides of the coop's. I thought it was from...
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    Dying chicken with bloody vent

    Yeah, well I guess I’ll have to get the brooder cleaned out and ready. Probably go with Meyer’s instead of TSC. I have had good luck with my last batch. The thing that stinks is you have to buy 25 at a time.
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    Dying chicken with bloody vent

    Hi, I am at a loss with what is causing my chickens to die. They are RI reds from TSC which were hatched in August. They have grown well and all appear to be healthy with good weight/size. They started laying in late November/ early December. I live in Western NY and it has been an unusually...
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