Chickens swallowed keys HELP!!

I'd be pretty worried also. Posting picks of her poop might help someone tell you if it's blood or not.
I'll try and get a picture once it stops raining:th..

The best way I can describe it is it looks like guts, for example when a cat get a mouse and leaves the guts behind.. If that makes sense, its a paleish red but like stringy guts doesn't look pleasent but i'll return with a pic soon. It's the first time i've seen weird looking poop like this, not like i was examinating it, just caught my eye :eek:
 
For the poop, its like blood type red but it looks stringy its a light red??, I don't understand what that is, but every thing she passed today was like that..

I'll try and get a picture once it stops raining:th..

The best way I can describe it is it looks like guts, for example when a cat get a mouse and leaves the guts behind.. If that makes sense, its a paleish red but like stringy guts doesn't look pleasent but i'll return with a pic soon. It's the first time i've seen weird looking poop like this, not like i was examinating it, just caught my eye :eek:
Please get some photos of the poop.
 
I'll try and get a picture once it stops raining:th..

The best way I can describe it is it looks like guts, for example when a cat get a mouse and leaves the guts behind.. If that makes sense, its a paleish red but like stringy guts doesn't look pleasent but i'll return with a pic soon. It's the first time i've seen weird looking poop like this, not like i was examinating it, just caught my eye :eek:
It could be an effect of metallic poisoning depending on what metal the keys were made out of causing some intestinal shedding.
 
Please get some photos of the poop.
Ok here's the pictures, so her poop is now yellow(bright yellow ) picture doesn't capture it well, and this is what i mean about it looks stringey, also the smell is horrific its so strong it hits your nose straight away. I'm use to the smell but this poop is beyond, it's so tangey worse than rotten eggs :sick

I can get more pictures if there needed also, I didn't want to stress the chickens out since I've just got them out and all, it's only stopped raining and we've had some serious wind lately.

Also I've got my babies a Christmas present, I've construted a wooden pen out of panels with thick steel welded mesh, which is the strognest for fox proofing, and will add hardware cloth once I construct it. I'll hopefully have a seperate thread of the build. I can't stand the little metal enclosure i have anymore, to tall and sick of ducking, maybe i'll find a use for it.
 

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Ok here's the pictures, so her poop is now yellow(bright yellow ) picture doesn't capture it well, and this is what i mean about it looks stringey, also the smell is horrific its so strong it hits your nose straight away. I'm use to the smell but this poop is beyond, it's so tangey worse than rotten eggs :sick

I can get more pictures if there needed also, I didn't want to stress the chickens out since I've just got them out and all, it's only stopped raining and we've had some serious wind lately.

Also I've got my babies a Christmas present, I've construted a wooden pen out of panels with thick steel welded mesh, which is the strognest for fox proofing, and will add hardware cloth once I construct it. I'll hopefully have a seperate thread of the build. I can't stand the little metal enclosure i have anymore, to tall and sick of ducking, maybe i'll find a use for it.
I think the first two pictures look like a cecal pooh. They are quite normal but stink real bad. Not sure about the last one. Have they been wormed recently?
 
Wow I lock my birds up with padlocks and I have a small shiny key. But it is on a set of keys would have to be an ostrich to swallow the whole set. My unprofessional opinion is they are in her digestive track and will just stay there the rest of her life. I don't think it will hurt her. What else can you do? I think chicken surgery is out of the question. My dog once ate sixteen little pebbles and he is ok they were rounded and passed through.
 

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