Do chickens get the "green grass poos"?

[gritsar]

Around here, in the springtime cows get what we refer to as the "green grass poo's" (okay, so poo isn't the word we use, but you get the idea). An issue caused by there being green grass to eat again after a winter spent eating mostly hay and supplemental feed, they have a period of runny stools.

Do chickens, especially free range chickens, get the same thing?

Reason I ask... Some of my hens have very dirty bottoms right now. They were wormed with a broad spectrum wormer in November, so I don't feel worms are an issue at this point. I wonder if the runny stools are related to there being more green stuff and bugs for them to eat again, after months of having to rely mainly on their layer feed?

TIA

 

[ranchhand]

It *could* happen. I honestly don't know. I'd keep an eye on them for a few days and see what happens.

 

[easttxchick]

I have a hen that is doing this same thing, Kat.
Checked her for mites and she's been wormed so I just chalk it up to the fact that the grass is starting to grow and she's eating a bunch of it.
Keep an eye on her, just to make sure she isn't having a laying issue.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

My chickens get periodic greens. I dig the sod up and deliver it in sqauares like a pizza.

Their poo is still the same consistency, but all green right after. They gorge themselves. (NOT runny and NOT all over their bottoms.)

 

[gritsar]

If it was just "grass" they were eating, I wouldn't understand it. But we're talking about every green thing that can grow in the springtime - grass, weeds, blooming plants, shrooms, etc. They wander what they will and eat what they want.