Easter Egger with diarhea

[Stephen1152]

I have posted about this before. My Easter Egger has had diarrhea on and off the entire summer. I finally thought the problem was solved when the weather cooled down. But she has the runs again. I started adding ACV to the water 4 days ago. I was not home for 3 days. When I returned last night, she had diarrhea on her again. I had to wipe her down in the dark. None of the other chickens have it and she is perfectly healthy and happy and laying clean eggs. But I have been making sure to keep her clean especially her vent. At this point, I don't have the time or enough daylight hours to keep up with this. The diarrhea is light brown and grainy. I honestly don't think she has worms but I have tried everything including restricting all food except the layer pellets from them for a few days. I am going to give them Wazine as a last resort. But I am not sure how much to give them and for how long. I have a 3 gallon plastic waterer. I have been stock piling my eggs in the refrigerator as I know I will not be able to use the eggs for about two weeks. I will give the ACV until the weekend to see if it works. Can anyone tell me; if you think it could be worms, should I give the ACV longer to work, how long do I give them Wazine for and how much to use? Thank you.

 

[Chickiemom25]

watery poop can be perfectly normal

 

[Eggcessive]

ACV is not going to help diarrhea. It is safe to use once in a while, but it is not really even required to have healthy chickens. Some chickens will get runny poops for a variety of reasons. They can get diarrhea from drinking a lot of water if it is hot or they are thirsty. To help you rule out coccidiosis or worms, you could collect a couple of her fresh droppings in a dog crate overnight, and take them in to your local vet for a fecal float. Wazine only gets roundworms, the most common chicken worm, but Valbazen or SafeGuard will get most worms. If she is active, alert, healthy and eating normally, I would get the fecal test done.

 

[Stephen1152]

watery poop can be perfectly normal

She may just have loose poop, but I cant spent the rest of my life cleaning her vent. So I hope thats not the answer. Thanks for your reply.

 

[Stephen1152]

ACV is not going to help diarrhea. It is safe to use once in a while, but it is not really even required to have healthy chickens. Some chickens will get runny poops for a variety of reasons. They can get diarrhea from drinking a lot of water if it is hot or they are thirsty. To help you rule out coccidiosis or worms, you could collect a couple of her fresh droppings in a dog crate overnight, and take them in to your local vet for a fecal float. Wazine only gets roundworms, the most common chicken worm, but Valbazen or SafeGuard will get most worms. If she is active, alert, healthy and eating normally, I would get the fecal test done.

I will take your advice. She is so healthy I cant imagine it being anything but I dont have time for a nightly routine in the dark cleaning her. I'll just get as much as I want off her butt for the vet. Now i need to find a vet. Thank you I will get the SafeGuard too.