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This article has some good pictures of a vent prolapse: https://the-chicken-chick.com/prolapse-vent-causes-treatment-graphic/

If that is just at the vent opening, it could be a prolapse. Could you get a more clear picture showing the vent opening?

This video has helped many people do a simple necropsy at home, and the organs are identified:

Sorry for your loss. I would keep the body cold in a cooler with an ice pack, wrapped in 2 clean garbage bags. Call your state vet right away, and ask if you can get a necropsy done today or tomorrow. Tell them it is a backyard chicken who suddenly died. Here is a list of state vet labs to call...

So glad that he is doing better. Good luck. Let us know how he gets along.

Could she have been injured by a rooster or fallen off the roost? I would separate her in a wire dog crate with food and water within reach, propped on towels. First though offer some sugar water or electrolytes, and some watery chicken feed or egg. Well she move her legs if you lift her to a...

Could she have been pecked in the eye? You can flush the eye with saline or eye wash, and apply either Terramycin or plain Neosporin ointment into her eye twice a day. But it would be good to remove that white gunk which may be infection or scar tissue. If it were me and she was important, I...

A sting would be my thought as well, but check her right ear, since it looks very swollen. Check for infection, drainage or gunk in the ear canal with a QTip. Does she have any signs of respiratory infection? I would give her 1/4 tablet of Benadryl 25 mg orally today to see if the swelling goes...

My 2 silkie hens did roost with the large hens on 3-4 foot roosts. This hen probably should have been treated as a day old chick when the feet and toes are pliable. Then the breeder could have used human vitamin B complex for riboflavin and made chick shoes with toes taped flat. The chick may...

It will heal on it’s own, but Betadine, or Neosporin could be used on it.

It might be some very mild favus, but I would take some soap and water and a cloth or some QTips and try to wash it off. If it won’t come off, then use some miconazole or clotrimazole cream daily.

It looks like an injury. Is there any scabbing on the face or wattles?

He is a handsome fellow for sure. Sneezing every 30 seconds sounds like he could possibly have infectious bronchitis, a virus that can last about a month. Most grown birds can get through it easily if they don’t get a secondary illness. There is no treatment that helps, but some use Tylosin...

With capillaries or threadworms, those can be especially harmful and dangerous. It usually requires oral dosage of the 10% SafeGuard 100mg per ml, 0.23 ml per pound given for 5 consecutive days. I would check them again in time to make sure that they are not getting them again later.

The Corid won’t hurt even if she was vaccinated for coccidiosis. But it sounds like she may be having an impacted crop. Getting her to drink as much water as possible and continuing massage is best. I would stop the grubs. Try some raw egg mixed well, and some very watery chick feed. You can...