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Thank you! I will check everyone's mouth tomorrow...hopefully everyone looks good.I also agree it is fowl pox. My flock did not do good with it last year and we did sadly lost one. It can start as dry fowl pox but if it continues can lead into the throat. Once it reaches the throat it can choke them (but you seem to be dealing with it good). I also heard you can apply lemon onto the comb to help (don't know if it does any good though). Also there are plants that drive away mosquitos we were going to test it this year but they died on us so we didn't know if it does any good. If your whole flock hasn't got it yet you can separate them to prevent it from spreading. Mosquitos also breed in pools of water so if you have anything with water in it, for example a kitty pool for the animals, you might want to dump it for the night.
I have no standing water for them. Their water buckets have lids and they peck the water to drink. The ditch is right behind the coop and it rained like crazy last week so things were a bit wetter last week.