Chicken poop

[LivLovLrn]

Hello,
I am new to chickens, well, birds of any kind, and we have our first batch of babies we are raising. We have 3 Easter Eggers, 3 Buckeyes and 2 Golden sex link. They all "seem" healthy and are growing great but I noticed that one of the Easter Eggers and one of the Buckeyes don't have normal bird poop; it is dark brown and runny. Also the Easter Egger (Blossom) is always "whining". I don't know if it is a personality thing or that something is wrong. Honestly, she is our biggest bird. They get medicated food, electrolytes, I tried ACV (that didn't work, they didn't really drink the water), oregano and offering different food (they are 6 weeks old and have 2 different feeding areas) Not sure if I should just let it go since they are growing anyway?

Thanks for any help/insight you can give!

 

[azygous]

Runny poop, if just occasional, is a normal feature of baby chick poop, especially the cecal poop, which is more liquid than normal urates. If all the poop is runny, and especially if it's accompanied by listless behavior, then something pathalogical should be suspected.

Adding so many thinkgs to water and food of growing chicks may be self defeating. Plain water is best. Treats and other food offerings, except for the normal chick feed, should be kept to a bare minimum.

 

[LivLovLrn]

Runny poop, if just occasional, is a normal feature of baby chick poop, especially the cecal poop, which is more liquid than normal urates. If all the poop is runny, and especially if it's accompanied by listless behavior, then something pathalogical should be suspected.

Adding so many thinkgs to water and food of growing chicks may be self defeating. Plain water is best. Treats and other food offerings, except for the normal chick feed, should be kept to a bare minimum.

Thank you I didn't add all the things at once, tried one and another. The runny poop is constant, like it never developed into normal looking stuff. They seem to be doing fine, otherwise (except the one who whines, which is what worries me the most), always come and greet me when I come in the room, scratching for food/grit in the area we spread it for them, flying and roosting etc.

 

[azygous]

Cecal poop is completely different than regular poop, being mostly proteins while regular poop is mostly urates. Occasionally they combine in the same poop.

Illness can cause urates to turn to a thin, chalky mucous, and the cecal can go watery like thin soup. When they combine, it appears as brown, watery diarrhea. If the chickens that produced this poop are behaving sickly, then you need to move to treat for a suspected disease.