Chicken with diarrhea!

[Zachary Lauritsen]

My three chickens are sneezing and have diarrhea! Other than those two symptoms they seem fine and healthy but chickens don't have diarrhea on a daily basis. Anyone know what this is?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Same chicks as these from your post a few weeks ago? https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-with-sneezing-problem.1268776/#post-20383596

Did you ever treat them with any medications? Photos of your set-up and the poop would be helpful. Sometimes sneezing is caused by a number of things - dust bedding/feed, moldy or wet bedding, poor ventilation and respiratory illness are few.

 

[Zachary Lauritsen]

They started to show symptoms very little (before I even moved them out of the brooder) and one was lethargic. Since I moved them out to the coop and changed there bedding to grass clippings and wood chips they got a lot better. The lethargic hen is now just as active as the others and all three are eating, drinking, and growing just fine. Ive also been treating them with vetRX and that has reduced the sneezing dramatically. Despite looking and acting very healthy, they still sneeze occasionally and have diarrhea which is not a normal thing among chickens. Any idea what this might be?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

They started to show symptoms very little (before I even moved them out of the brooder) and one was lethargic. Since I moved them out to the coop and changed there bedding to grass clippings and wood chips they got a lot better. The lethargic hen is now just as active as the others and all three are eating, drinking, and growing just fine. Ive also been treating them with vetRX and that has reduced the sneezing dramatically. Despite looking and acting very healthy, they still sneeze occasionally and have diarrhea which is not a normal thing among chickens. Any idea what this might be?

Photos of the poop

Occasional sneezing without other symptoms can be from a number of things. I would just monitor that.

Photos of the diarrhea would be very helpful. Loose stools can be from a number of things too. Chickens have a loose stool that is called "Cecal Poop" about 1 out of every 8-10 normal poops - this can be watery, stinky, sticky, pudding like and range from light to almost black in color.

Loose stools can also be due to diet, how much they drink (in hot weather stools can be more runny). Worms, Coccidiosis and infection are also a cause of loose stools. It's hard to know without more information, photos or having some testing.

Here's some photos of various type of poop - look to see if anything there looks familiar.
https://the-chicken-chick.com/whats-scoop-on-chicken-poop-digestive/

 

[Zachary Lauritsen]

The very watery poop ranges from dark and light green to dark brown like this picture.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The very watery poop ranges from dark and light green to dark brown like this picture.

That looks like Cecal poop. Are you seeing them poop that ALL the time or do they have a firmish/formed poop too.
If they are acting normal, eating/drinking and active, I would not worry about that.

 

[Zachary Lauritsen]

Thank you so much!