Calling all poop experts! How would you treat this?

[Saaniya]

I feed Purina Flock Raiser fermented.

Yes, I can tube feed. I

I'm going to drop off a poop sample from Ethel at my vet's in the morning so they can run a float test.

I'll try the fluids and see if that makes a difference.

How about a gizzard obstruction?

That would be great ..Na I don't think gizzard obstruction gizzard obstruction will made crop shut
And poop is dark color and very loose

 

[Saaniya]

Given the shape, color, and consistency of the poop, I think the problem is probably in her intestines.

It can be Necrotic Enternitis ?

 

[micstrachan]

Carol, have you changed her feed? I read feed intolerances can upset their systems. Have you played around with changing to a different feed to see how she reacts? Of course, there’s risk in that, too.

I agree you should start with a fecal float. Sending moral support!

 

[Shadrach]

I have a three-year old EE, Ethel, and she's had a poopy butt for a long time. I wash it, and it crusts back up again in less than a day.

Ethel seems to be feeling okay, but she's in the throes of molt. She's jumpy and crabby, but she doesn't act sick. She eats and is active. But she leaves a puddle of poop each night on the poop board that is runny, mostly white with no yellow in it and it has mucous and tiny bits of green.

She was laying normal eggs up to a few weeks ago when she began to molt in earnest. No foul odor to the poop. She eats fermented feed, but she was on dry feed for a few weeks during September when I was sidetracked with medical procedures. Her poop has been like this since before that. So the FF and dry crumbles didn't seem to make any difference.

I know something is up with this poop, but I am in sore need of some input as to what could be behind it. View attachment 1583137

Poop expert I’m not.
I don’t know if your chickens are free range or what they have access to in the way of food other than the commercially produced stuff.
The chickens here free range and I get enough variation in poop consistency and colours to do an oil painting.
The white is mainly uric acid and depending on what they been eating and how much they’ve been drinking seems to determine how the uric acid congeals to the solids.
At the moment lots of the hens here are moulting. This seems to mean they go around eating stuff they don’t normally, especially plants.
Below are three poop samples from different hens. As far as I know none of these hens are ill. Over a few years now I’ve noticed a much larger variation in poop at moulting time which, although biologically unrelated, is also the time they stop laying eggs.
I won’t be giving any of these hens antibiotics, vet visits, or having fecal floats done. I expect tomorrow morning their poop will be different again.
I start to worry if I see blood, bright green or yellow liquid, very dry poop, or no poop. Other than the above if the chickens seem healthy then I wait until they seem ill.

 

[Shadrach]

Below is a selection from the same three hens and one other a short while ago.
If you do get a fecal float done please post the results as I’m curios. I may have a problem I’m unaware of.

Edit. Sry about the pic quality. I can't get deep enough into the bamboo!

 

[azygous]

Thanks for posting those poop samples! The second one is identical to my hen's. The puzzling thing is she has been pooping like this for a past few months, while she was laying normal eggs, before she began to molt in earnest, and she's never exhibited any symptoms of being sick. Ethel is active and has no other symptoms except for a perpetually poopy butt.

My vet will charge $20 to run the float test, so hopefully, I'll have something more to go one by later on today. I'm doing it more out of curiosity than real concern. It's the only sort of poop I've never been able to fully comprehend.

I most definitely will update later today after I get home from the big city.

 

[Shadrach]

I hope the pics help. I get so few sick chickens here I rarely get the chance to be of any help on the sick list.
I hope Ethel doesn't have anything serious.

 

[Saaniya]

Poop expert I’m not.
I don’t know if your chickens are free range or what they have access to in the way of food other than the commercially produced stuff.
The chickens here free range and I get enough variation in poop consistency and colours to do an oil painting.
The white is mainly uric acid and depending on what they been eating and how much they’ve been drinking seems to determine how the uric acid congeals to the solids.
At the moment lots of the hens here are moulting. This seems to mean they go around eating stuff they don’t normally, especially plants.
Below are three poop samples from different hens. As far as I know none of these hens are ill. Over a few years now I’ve noticed a much larger variation in poop at moulting time which, although biologically unrelated, is also the time they stop laying eggs.
I won’t be giving any of these hens antibiotics, vet visits, or having fecal floats done. I expect tomorrow morning their poop will be different again.
I start to worry if I see blood, bright green or yellow liquid, very dry poop, or no poop. Other than the above if the chickens seem healthy then I wait until they seem ill.
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Pure urates ..
So much urine
My friend whose a fellow vet student always says these type of dropping are normal urine if they are acting fine
He sometimes recommend Sugar Water 2-3 ml when my chickens poop clear water
He mentioned sugar water (thick ) is use to flush kidneys
I see my chicken poop turn firm after sugar water

 

[Shadrach]

Pure urates ..
So much urine
My friend whose a fellow vet student always says these type of dropping are normal urine if they are acting fine
He sometimes recommend Sugar Water 2-3 ml when my chickens poop clear water
He mentioned sugar water (thick ) is use to flush kidneys
I see my chicken poop turn firm after sugar water

I've never tried sugar water. I tend not to worry about their poop unless I see something I know is a problem.

 

[Saaniya]

I've never tried sugar water. I tend not to worry about their poop unless I see something I know is a problem.

I tried when my chickens pooping clear water it helps making their water poop go away