[alandbailey]

  Tonight I noticed that my Maran, who has had a bare bum and breast for weeks, did a large dump of grey-brown then a dessertspoonful (estimated - not measured) of white urates (?) with the consistency of thick runny custard. In the coop she was facing away from me and I noticed she was still oozing a thread of thick custard, which, like a man's dewdrop, eventually parted, leaving a thinner trailing thread dangling. She has also been pecked around her bare vent as I can clearly see globules of blood.
My girls get layers pellets, mixed corn, bread, ACV and garlic granules - also cooked potatoes, bacon rinds and any of my leftover food. Although I found 2 hens and 2 batams dead in the run over the past 4 weeks, the other hens seem to be OK, although egg production is down to 2 or 3 a day from 16 hens. The dead goldcrest hens were OK in the morning but dead by mid afternoon, with blueish combs (heart attack?) - the 2 bantams had become loners and very quiet and passed over after several days. None of them showed any sign of any physical attack.
 Has anybody any thoughts on this please?
 Should I quarantine the Maran? The poultry range in a large part of my garden which they have made like the Glastonbury Pop Festival.

[joyfull]

it sounds like she has had an egg break inside her - the others will have pecked her to get it and if they draw blood she will end up being pecked to death. Remove her and put her in a warm bath to see if any more comes out then get her to a vets as soon as possible (in the morning at the latest) as she can end up with a life threatening infection. Sorry this is not good news but she does need urgent medical treatment in my opinion.

[rachelr]

too lose so many in such a short time seems maybe you have an infection in the coop. can you isolate the poorly ones when you notice they are unwell. sometimes just a warm bath and some tlc can help. One of mine was not well. I brought her in isolated her for a few hours. You can check them out and then decide if you need to take them to a vets.

I have also helped mine get rid of the eggs inside that have broken but I was a nurse in another life and so i dont find a little vaseline and an internal as grose as some people lol

good luck

[joyfull]

as Rachel said she was a nurse, but if you don't know what you are doing then to prevent any damage please go to somebody well practised on this such as a vet