Chicks with drooly eyes and feather loss

Black Pirate

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May 8, 2021
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Hello everyone. A few days ago I saw one of my golden buff chicks losing a lot of feathers. I picked it up and noticed that it lost feathers on the belly, wings and the neck. Also, its eyelid is hanging extremely low too. Today, another one of my chicken's showing signs of feather loss, and the same drooly eyes. Any advice?

Note= it's monsoon where I'm at and I've lost a lot of chicks to fowlpox and bronchitis but I've never seen a case like this before.
 

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The eye issue appears to be MG or mycoplasma gallisepticum, but testing could confirm this. It is a chronic respiratory disease that can be passed through the hatching egg or caught from other poultry. Are feathers being pecked out by the other chicks? What are you feeding? Do they get a balanced chick starter feed?
 
The eye issue appears to be MG or mycoplasma gallisepticum, but testing could confirm this. It is a chronic respiratory disease that can be passed through the hatching egg or caught from other poultry. Are feathers being pecked out by the other chicks? What are you feeding? Do they get a balanced chick starter feed?
No I don't see other chicks pecking it out. They spend a lot of time free ranging but I give them leftover fruits and veggies as well. They are given millet and chick/chicken feed regularly.
The golden buff is about 2-3 months old and the other one is about 4-5 months old
 

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