Diarrhea!!!!! please help

ASUJp4x4 · May 12, 2014

Okay.....So I bring home three red star red sex link golden OMG too many names!!!!! They're great. After three days of being in the coop/run they come out by themselves in the morning and go in at night right on schedule. I got them from SS. They came in on a truckload of who knows how many birds. They are eating, pecking and drinking just fine. Two of them have normal stool and one has a light brown loose stool/diarrhea. Any suggestions???

Moody Broody · May 12, 2014

Broody hens usually have diaoreah, because of their lack of certain nutrients and food. (What is in your average mixed seeds/grain food)
This is probably the problem with your chickens they need more food, I recommend red hen, it's what I use and all my hens (apart from the broodies) don't have diaoreah.

ASUJp4x4 · May 12, 2014

I feed them southern states layer pellets and they have been eating that pretty good with grass and some scratch. two of the three hens are fine but it's just the one that has diarrhea. I had heard or read that the red sex links didn't usually go broody. SS said that these three hens are 18 weeks and they have been in their new home for three days now. None of them have laid their first egg yet. They always have plenty of food and water available to them.......

seminolewind · May 12, 2014

Sometimes if their environment changes, they don't start laying right away. If your hen is acting fine, eating and pooping, you may want to think about that she just had a different kind of poop. And they can have many types of poop.

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