Calling all poop experts! How would you treat this?

[Chickassan]

To help keep her firm until the molt passes squish up a handful of plain old cheerios and add to her food. Don't know why but that really helps the excess juice. Hobo is going through similar. Molting, juicy crusty butt, and generally shying from the feeder. Tried calf manna but she'd not have it so tried cheerios and now solid poop. She also lost condition, not a big dominique to begin with so it was fairly noticeable. Gaining a little back since food is spending more time in the chicken. Also, unrelated but I love that you have an Ethel. Got a SS Ethel here, she's very bossy.

Update: Ethel's poop has slowly improved after I took the step of preventing her being bullied away from the feeders. In fact, after just two days of protective treatment, she regained her self confidence and began asserting herself at the food dishes. This morning when cleaning the poop boards, I couldn't tell which night deposit was hers.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Update: Ethel's poop has slowly improved after I took the step of preventing her being bullied away from the feeders. In fact, after just two days of protective treatment, she regained her self confidence and began asserting herself at the food dishes. This morning when cleaning the poop boards, I couldn't tell which night deposit was hers.

 

[Mosey2003]

To help keep her firm until the molt passes squish up a handful of plain old cheerios and add to her food. Don't know why but that really helps the excess juice.

I bet it's the oat fiber. I'm adding a small quantity of whole oats to my feed right now as an experiment.

 

[Chickassan]

Could be right! I was just trying to figure out how to bulk up her food so it wouldn't be so awful coming out. That molting really effects everything coming and going.

I bet it's the oat fiber. I'm adding a small quantity of whole oats to my feed right now as an experiment.

 

[azygous]

To help keep her firm until the molt passes squish up a handful of plain old cheerios and add to her food. Don't know why but that really helps the excess juice. Hobo is going through similar. Molting, juicy crusty butt, and generally shying from the feeder. Tried calf manna but she'd not have it so tried cheerios and now solid poop. She also lost condition, not a big dominique to begin with so it was fairly noticeable. Gaining a little back since food is spending more time in the chicken. Also, unrelated but I love that you have an Ethel. Got a SS Ethel here, she's very bossy.

I toss out raw rolled oats every so often to my flock. I need to pay attention to how it affects their poop.

 

[Chickassan]

Observations here, poop is slightly lighter in color not much though. Solid but fluffy if that makes sense. Leaves no residue on the exit door. Her booty was starting to get irritated due to the excess, that has cleared up. Also i'm tending to see more or a classic "turd" than a pile.

I toss out raw rolled oats every so often to my flock. I need to pay attention to how it affects their poop.

 

[aart]

My vet ran the float on probably the only chicken poop he's ever had in his clinic. No worm eggs were seen.

Not sure this would give me confidence in their diagnosis.
But I suppose poop is poop and worms and eggs are worms and eggs.

Tonight I gave her a food dish in a restricted area so she could eat in peace. She spent so long eating, I now believe I've identified the problem with her poop. She's starving, simply stated. We can fix that easily. She will be getting my bully victim treatment, and I am betting her poop firms up in no time. And maybe a vacation from flock competition will soothe her poor nerves.

Will be very interested in how this 'treatment' turns out.

Have had several birds with what I call 'juicy poops'.
Culled 3 hens with them this fall, the usual population reduction and they got chosen. There was no signs of any disease, organs appears healthy, and intestines cut open showed no sign of worms. A 4th had very slight ascites and a small lash inside.
None of the birds appeared otherwise ill.

Still have a 'juicer' out there, not sure which it is......but am wondering about this maybe a lack of feeding causing the juicies.

 

[Chickassan]

Could be. I know they aren't people but whenver we don't eat so well our bowels tend to let loose the juice. I don't see any real reason why theirs wouldn't react similarly.

Not sure this would give me confidence in their diagnosis.
But I suppose poop is poop and worms and eggs are worms and eggs.

Will be very interested in how this 'treatment' turns out.

Have had several birds with what I call 'juicy poops'.
Culled 3 hens with them this fall, the usual population reduction and they got chosen. There was no signs of any disease, organs appears healthy, and intestines cut open showed no sign of worms. A 4th had very slight ascites and a small lash inside.
None of the birds appeared otherwise ill.

Still have a 'juicer' out there, not sure which it is......but am wondering about this maybe a lack of feeding causing the juicies.

 

[aart]

I know they aren't people but whenver we don't eat so well our bowels tend to let loose the juice.

Big difference..... their urine is mixed with their feces.

@azygous has already seen some evidence that the bird in question might not have been eating enough, just drinking. Am curious to see how her situation progresses.

 

[Chickassan]

I know that. I'm just thinking that a lack of food in the gut might make the body substitute for the loss with water to keep the digestive system at least functioning on a somewhat normal level. Totally aside from the moisture present from the urine. Kind of similar to the way an early aneroxic functions. Just pondering the whys and hows.

Big difference..... their urine is mixed with their feces.

@azygous has already seen some evidence that the bird in question might not have been eating enough, just drinking. Am curious to see how her situation progresses.