Chocolate poop

[Lee]

what more can I say?

 

[missourichickenmama]

this topic must be pretty popular...

 

[omelette'smom]

I'm glad i found this post since i really thought i needed to give them some meds or something!

my two fat hens that i've never seen give eggs had the butterscotch color smelly poops.

i thought "that's it! that's why we have no eggs! they're sickly!" now i know that they're just probably too old or really good at giving eggs and running so as not to get caught!!

 

[suburban farm girl]

Is this chocolate poop part of a mature bird's digestive process? (In other words how old are they when this kind of poop begins?)

We recently brought a new hen into our group of pullets. As far as I can tell she is the only one with this kind of poop...

 

[Fudgie]

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She is just the one that knows where the goodies are that makes the chocolate pudding poops!!! Follow her around for a day and I bet she is finding stuff that the others are not!

 

[suburban farm girl]

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She is just the one that knows where the goodies are that makes the chocolate pudding poops!!! Follow her around for a day and I bet she is finding stuff that the others are not!

I know she eats broken up egg shells like crazy. The others don't seem to care for them - at least not yet... Could it be the calcium that creates the choco pudding poo?

 

[antlers]

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Thats what Grad students are for in college. Along with counting how many beans are in a bushel, Grading papers, ......

 

[Lee]

Well, I remember now that Professor Chicken said that excess salt in their diet can cause a loose stool.

 

[kinnip]

This is getting gross! Can't we find something other than candy analogies?

All birds have cecal poo, but some seem to have less. If I had to guess, I'd say it's the food hogs that have the big nasty gooeys.

 

[Wynette]

Okay guys, here's a site w/pics of the range of normal chicken poop. Gaze away!

http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=17568