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My chickens do dirt bathe. It's just dry dusty soil. Not red/clay, or sand or anything. And no leaf material. Any plant matter in their run has long since been gobbled up. The stuff on/in her feathers is definitely not dirt or poop. I pulled out the ones for the photos, but left most of them...

I'm inclined to agree with you. And the molt appears normal. She's past the feather loss stage. The feathers are basically all in. The bottoms of some are still wrapped in the little clear flaky sleeves that need to break down, but nothing unusual at all.

Yeah. The vast majority of her feathers are coming in normal. Just a few are doing the "splitting open with black clumpy stuff inside" thing. There's just so many flakes. She's three years old. Just her so far. I didn't check the others yet.

That's fine. I feel like if it was some sort of parasite you'd know right away. I don't think there's too many super rare obscure ones of which nobody has ever heard. I just hope somebody can provide a positive ID of the issue, just for my mental wellbeing.

Never seen/heard of any parasite like that, correct? I'm sorry. I'm absolutely fishing for reassurance.

It doesn't melt into blood when you add water though. I'm as sure as I can be, without chemical analysis, that it isn't blood.

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Went out to see my chickens today, and found one of my three year old self-blue cochin bantam hens with weird black stuff in her feathers. The best way I can describe it is like if you have a fake leather couch or chair, and it gets old and eventually the leather veneer starts flaking off and it...