Chickens poopy butts-some runny, some like dried on butt feathers

[C_lotte_q123]

Hi there, I have 7 chickens. 4 out of my 7 chickens have runny poop. Which makes them have runny poppy butts. They are 10 months old. They are on Purina premium Layena crumbles from tractor supply. I also feed them their crushed egg shells and purina poultry grit. I give them my bread scraps, my veggies scraps, like tomatoe, lettuce, and cucumbers. Just trying to fiqure our why there bottoms have like green/orange watery diarrhea.

 

[azygous]

How about running a little experiment? Withhold all table scraps, veggies, and bread. For the next week, only feed them the crumbles and continue to offer grit and shells.

To prepare for the results of the experiment, fix a tub of warm water and back each dirty butt up to it. Splash water onto the soiled feathers to loosen the poop and then pull the poop away. Finish with clean water until the butt feathers are clean. Dry by dabbing at the wet feathers with a warm dry towel. Blow dry if you wish. Chickens adore being blow dried.

My guess is that you will begin to see less runny poop as the high water content foods pass through their systems. In the future, feed these things sparingly once or twice a week at the most. Crumbles should be 95% of what they eat.

If the poop continues to be runny after a week, come back here and we'll try to figure out what to do about it.