Advice please?

TherryChicken

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Sep 16, 2012
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I just got these cuties from a country store
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They ate barnevelders. I got them yesterday, well I noticed their poop was a beige mucusy poop. They are also very chirpy.. Could there be something wrong? . I'm getting probiotics and electrolytes and they're not cold.
 
Mucus comes from the colon. The dark color in poop comes from bile pigment.

So, a little stress colitis-->increased mucus in poop, sometimes poop is more watery as well
Bile is secreted/released based on the fat content of a meal; less fat-->lighter colored stool
Bile pigments are mostly reabsorbed by the intestines and "recycled" back into the bile (not all of them, that's why poop is usually brownish). A slower transit time (not unusual when digestive tracts are just starting up) can allow more pigment to be reabsorbed and also result in lighter poop color.

I am starting to think that I know way too much about ****!
 
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Mucus comes from the colon. The dark color in poop comes from bile pigment.

So, a little stress colitis-->increased mucus in poop, sometimes poop is more watery as well
Bile is secreted/released based on the fat content of a meal; less fat-->lighter colored stool
Bile pigments are mostly reabsorbed by the intestines and "recycled" back into the bile (not all of them, that's why poop is usually brownish). A slower transit time (not unusual when digestive tracts are just starting up) can allow more pigment to be reabsorbed and also result in lighter poop color.

I am starting to think that I know way too much about ****!

Oh ok, thank you
 

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