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    Chicken lethargic and breathing heavy with yellow “poop”

    Came home from work today and found my girl clearly not feeling well. She was bundled up with a heater despite it being the first warm day in weeks. She’s breathing quickly and has this yellow discharge. Am I looking at an egg bound chicken? Vent gleet? Neither?
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    Molting? Mites? Bullying?

    If I don’t know who the culprit is, should they all get them for now? They were previously in a significantly smaller run and coop before I bought the house and built the one pictured above. The feather lose started when they were in the old set up and very overcrowded. Could it just be a...
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    Duck Foamy Eye?

    I recently noticed my girl Quackers had a little bit of discharge in her eyes. It seems to have gotten worse and it not accumulated and crusty around her eyes. She’s been in the coop a lot with the freezing weather we’ve had, and I’m wondering if this is my first experience with foamy eye or...
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    Molting? Mites? Bullying?

    Thank you for the help! They have a very large run for 12 birds total. I provide them with enrichment toys and have switched to 20% all flock feed. I give them meal worms, usually 1-2 cups a day. Perhaps that’s too many? They just get so excited when they see me opening the treat bag, so I cave...
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    Molting? Mites? Bullying?

    Hi there! I am recently new to owning chickens, I bought a house that came with them and I never thought I’d keep them but here we are two years later and I am stumped. I have 6 “babies” who turned 1 year old last July 2025. 5 out of 6 have had areas of feather loss since last spring that just...
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