Coccidiosis, cecal worms, or just plain diarrhea???

[LucyGoosey1]

Hello all,

Our jenny has had diarrhea for several weeks. This may be caused by a few things:
- she had 2 different types of antibiotics to treat bumblefoot. I just started more intense probiotics, though I've been giving her yoghurt now and then.
- Stress from bumblefoot surgery and me changing her bandages.
- Changing her food from layer to grower suddenly
- maybe she didn't have enough access to dirt, since she is on partial packed dirt and partial pea gravel (which I think is too big enough to eat). I gave her more grit this evening.

Other than the diarrhea, she is acting normally, active and mad when I go in her coop and don't let her out since she has to eat her medicated food (I'm currently treating with Duravet type C). That's why I don't know well how to treat this - she seems normal otherwise. She is also molting pretty badly right now; new feathers are growing in.

Does this seem like coccidiosis, other worms, or ordinary diarrhea? I'll attach a photo of her poop. Sometimes it's a bit foamy, but never lemon or sulfur yellow, more mustard brown.

If we use Corid, can you still eat the eggs? She isn't a meat bird.

Thank you for input from those more experienced!!!

 

[LucyGoosey1]

P.S. - she is housed separately from chickens, but sometimes we let her out on the same land which chickens use.

 

[Sara Ranch]

If I remember correctly, yellow foamy poop is an indication of a respiratory illness/infection.

If this a one time thing or an ongoing thing with the yellow foamy poop? (Based on the pic, it looks like it was foamy when it came out her backside. The bubbles tend to dissipate after a bit.)

Someone will come along that can provide a link for a poop chart.

 

[LucyGoosey1]

Yes, exactly - they dissipate after awhile. Then the total solids increase as it dries.

She poops like this maybe every 5 x or so - it's hard to tell since I'm not there much to watch her poop. It doesn't happen every time, but it seems increasingly frequently (or maybe I'm just there at opportune times increasingly frequently).