Mucousy Orange string?

[Sarajobe]

Noticed one of our Reds standing funny this morning and found this orange mucous like string hanging out of her vent and on her butt feathers. She does tend to lay thin shelled eggs. We've been trying to fix it, but it hasn't gotten better. Any ideas what this stringy thing is though?

 

[Eggcessive]

It just looks like a lot string of mucus possibly from her intestinal tract. What have her poops looked like? Have you tried giving some human calcium with D3 daily for up to 7 days to harden her egg shells? Do you feed her a layer feed and have crushed oyster shell available for her to take as she needs it?

 

[Sarajobe]

It just looks like a lot string of mucus possibly from her intestinal tract. What have her poops looked like? Have you tried giving some human calcium with D3 daily for up to 7 days to harden her egg shells? Do you feed her a layer feed and have crushed oyster shell available for her to take as she needs it?

I will have to watch her poops, but haven't seen anything weird in general. We think they had feather mites? They were digging at their feathers, but we searched and searched and found nothing. We did 3 rounds of permithrin anyways and always use DE and such in their areas. She's still pretty feather light on her butt and tail area though. We feed them Nutrena layer feed with Nutrena Feather fixer ground up and mixed in. We have oyster shell and fine oyster shell available, along with giving a few of them avian calcium and vitamin D. The feather issue only affects our Rhode Island reds, but not our leghorns, andalusian, appenzeller or California whites. We did have a red pass away last week and not sure what caused it. It seemed like impacted crop that turned sour that we didn't catch quick enough.