yellow foamy poop

[chickengr]

I find yellow sometimes foamy poop 1 or 2 times per day. chickens have been wormed with levamisole and a month later with mebendazole. they are 3+ months old. it seems only 1 or 2 chickens have poop like this. is it cecal poop or I should be concerned?

 

[Teila]

Howdy chickengr

I do not claim to be an expert on chicken poop and even if I was, not sure I would advertise it

I have two trusty poop charts that I use and on both of those, it looks to me to be in the caecal category. However, I am sure others more experienced will chime in if I am wrong:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0

Or

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/whats-scoop-on-chicken-poop-digestive.html

 

[casportpony]

I love BYC … yet another interesting and educational thread I am happy to have come across.

With the Caecals, those are also the ones that have a smell which can curl hair and toes and linger for the whole of the day?

If that is the case, then I think they can deposit them overnight .. I have had rude awakenings and been knocked back a few feet when opening the coop for a clean of the overnight deposits

I have not heard of oxalis so did some research .. interesting. It appears to be toxic to chickens but like many things, in large doses.

I think they can poop cecal at night, but it seems like mine do them more first thing in the morning after leaving the roost and at dusk before they roost. And yes, they are smelly!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Thanks for the update!

-Kathy

 

[CMV]

Show us some pics. A pic is worth a thousand words.

 

[chickengr]

I will get some more later. this pic is before worming them but I still find them. the night poops are never like that, I find them outside in the run only. the poop I see in their coop is normal. my chickens sleep in the coop and spend all day in their run.

 

[chickengr]

Howdy chickengr

I do not claim to be an expert on chicken poop and even if I was, not sure I would advertise it

I have two trusty poop charts that I use and on both of those, it looks to me to be in the caecal category. However, I am sure others more experienced will chime in if I am wrong:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0

Or

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/whats-scoop-on-chicken-poop-digestive.html

thank you.

the foamy one looks like the cecal poop in the chart. I found one like worm pic (foamy and light in colour) a day or two after worming them. I will keep checking it, maybe it needs time to kill all the worms.

 

[Sutremaine]

That's a good point about not finding caecal droppings under the roost. Do chickens not empty those tubes out at night?

 

[chickengr]

That's a good point about not finding caecal droppings under the roost. Do chickens not empty those tubes out at night?

I find mountains of poop as they are about 3 mo and I feed them well. I am a bit concerned because last year I got my first chickens at this time of the year and they were 3-4 mo and not really ready for the winter. I lost 2 of them about the new year. Now I panic all the time although I have better coops this year (3 of them) and 3 groups of chickens of different ages. 4th is coming: 1 NN chick just hatched, still waiting for 9 other eggs. but those will be with the broody.

 

[casportpony]

The feed store I go to had three young birds die with poop like the one below. I took all three to UC Davis for necropsy and the cause of death was severe coccidiosis.