Hello! I have Nagasaki Bantam/Chabo Japanese chickens. One hatched chicks a couple of months ago, so I’ve had them separate from the rest since then. I noticed last week the skin around the eyes of one chick was slightly red, but today it looks significantly redder and now he has tiny scabs. I was going to integrate them with the rest of the flock, but now I’m unsure whether this is normal for molting, it’s ammonia toxicity, if it’s fowl pox, heat stress (we are entering summer and it gets really hot here), or something else? Or, there skin is changing color because they are growing (they are 9 weeks old) into their pullet/cockerel bodies. I’ve only had chickens for a few months, so O don’t know what molting looks like (outside from in pictures), especially not in baby chicks. At first, only the black crested chick had some redness, so I thought he was just losing baby feathers and I was seeing their skin, but it has spread closer to it’s/his beak and now two of the other three chicks have it, too.
Edit: I’ve attached photos of their adult counterparts.
Edit: I’ve attached photos of their adult counterparts.
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