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Dustin Clark is a professor/vet with the U of A Dale Bumpers college. They have a huge poultry dept (Thanks Tyson). Dr Clark has a Backyard Chickens video where he does a step by step necropsy. I've used it in the past as a tutorial. Plus Dr Clark has answered questions via email in the past...

State lab is in Little Rock (an hour from my house, one way). And I doubt anyone at our County extension office would help. I've reached out to them about tree/garden issues and they always act put out like I've interrupted their day. 🙄 I opted to burn the bodies because if they are diseased, I...

With the chickens I discovered were sick and treated with the Metronidazole, it was definitely some type of respiratory illness. They had a cough, sneezing, and sounded croupy as I mentioned. The Ameracauna that died yesterday was the only one who I witnessed drainage coming from her mouth...

Never heard of flystrike. Had to look it up. Yikes, that's gross... Not sure if that's what happened here but I suppose I can't rule it out either. I have never ever seen my drake try to mate with my chickens. He has 6 duck hens which keep him rather busy. He doesn't pay the slightest...

I've been scanning the flock the last day or so but don't see any bloody bottoms. I thought maybe I'd visually be able to tell who the blood came from that way but no luck. I haven't seen any more bloody stool since that one incident but considering I have at least 50 chickens in that coop, it...

Yesterday morning I was collecting eggs and noticed a LOT of bloody poop on one of the roosts. I have 50-60 chickens so it's impossible to know which chicken it came from. It's also been REALLY hot with triple digit weather so everyone is rather lethargic anyway. A couple more relevant...