Baby Chicks Pooping Red

[Countryreo]

Hello to All,

I have just purchased about 20 french marons. I have had them a few weeks now, under servalece in my house. They live in a wire cage, with about 2 inches of Aspen chips, they eat and drink from a normal chicken feeder and water. THey have a couple of sticks for sitting on, and they have plenty of room to run. Today it was time for their chips to be changes out. So I did, I moved the cage from the chips and I threw the old chips away and gave them fresh. I noticed that they are now ( I have not noticed it before) that there is red droppings on the chips. This really worries me. It looks like pinkish redish jello.
I also noticed that some of the chicks are deformed, such as having a cruked beak or a few that their toes are wedged together (they where like this when I got them). I almost startung to believe that they are mixed bread but I am unsure what a french maron is to look like. If anyone has any ideas how to cure the chicks red poop, I would greatly be thankful,

Countryreo

 

[Why and Dotte]

Hopefully someone else will reply, I don't have time to fully explain right now but check out cocci, that may be whats causing the problem, or if you've fed them something reddish that could be why it's that color.

 

[speckledhen]

How old are they? It may be coccidiosis. You treat with Corid liquid (concentrated Amprolium) and if you can't find that, Sulmet.


Marans have some genetic issues, it seems. I've often heard of fused toes, etc in that breed, though I'm not expert on them. Crossbeak is also usually genetic--don't use those for breeding at all.

 

[Countryreo]

I Thank You much for your replys,

The babies are about a month old, still young little things. I talked to a few people here locally they think that it may be cocci also..One family gave me some pills to put in the chicks water for about a week. They were pretty sure that it would help if it was cocci....This bother me because I have raised chickens for the past three years and none of them had this problem. I dont believe that they have eaten anything out of the norm, all they get is the chick starter 24% from CO-OP or TSC. So what I did different with this group I am unsure. I Hope this cures the problems. We shall see, thank you much...

I had no idea that marons had possible breeding/deformity issues, I will not use them for breeding great advise.

Countryreo