Chicken butt goo?

[Peppercorngal]

FWIW, I am seeing more and more of a link between loose stools and high temps (was upper 90s for a week here until the last couple days). And adding electrolytes seems to help get things back under control.

High temps causes chickens to drink more water and stools do become loose at times. I put vitamins with electrolytes in their water too.

 

[Peppercorngal]

Hey everyone! I’m new to chickens and have read some great things on the site but first time posting. We have a small flock of three hens, and two of them have “mud butt” if you will (one very mild, just a little caked on her feathers, one pretty bad). My husband and I gave the worst one a bath in our garage sink it seemed so caked on, poor thing!! She took it well, and yet the next day she seems to already be accumulating some more nasty poo on her back feathers. I’m thinking we need to switch feed?

We currently feed Scratch and Peck layer formula that we order from chewy.com because we already have things that we need on that site so might as well get free shipping! But I’m open to other brands, especially if it’s available at Tractor Supply. What feeds or supplements help get firm stools? I really don’t want to be doing regular chicken baths and I don’t think they’d like that either! I also feed them oyster shell in a separate container, and some mealworm trail mix with other types of insects as a treat. They also get strawberries, and even frozen plain Greek yogurt cubes. I also have been adding acv to their water recently as well. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome, thank you!!

Ok, it's been almost a week, how are things now? What changes did you make and are they working? Let us know!!!