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I use pine shavings now but I don’t know what the person who had them before me used.

Will do. I read another article about it and one of the obvious symptoms seems to be “penguin foot” or what I would call pigeon foot. I don’t see any of that but will keep a lookout for it.

Yes. This is most likely what it was. I have had no more of them and all my hens look healthy. Thank you so much.

Oh my goodness. Yes, that looks like it. No, I didn’t dissect it. I would have no idea which chicken it is either. They all act healthy.

That was my question. I don’t know where it came from. It was really weird. I should have taken a picture.

Oh. Sorry. As far as I know they never had chicks.

Unfortunately I did not take a picture. Yes, she had been sitting in the nesting box every day but not continuously. It was always empty when no chickens were in the box.

We received six 3-yr old Rhode Island Red hens from a friend. We did not take their rooster and don’t have one of our own. 5 days later I went to check for eggs and found what appeared to be a pink, hard, nearly mummified chick. My friend said a hen could have hidden it under her wing and...