We brought Marge into the vet along with her stool sample. They said she looked completely healthy and are equally perplexed. The vet recommended the probiotics at that time, which didn’t have much affect on her stool, but we still give it to the flock since it can’t hurt to keep their gut flora healthy.
Thankfully, she’s no worse the wear, she’s happy and enjoys being a chicken. I was just hoping someone out there might be able to provide some insight as we’ve exhausted every possible solution we can think of and I’d love to get her digestive system back on track.
I hope it’s not that, eeks! She’s very healthy otherwise. Either way she will live out her life here on our happy urban mini farm.Hi, sorry to hear about this issue.
I recently participated in a thread that was described essentially the same way. And will say I have one pullet that also never has solid stools. The final update is on page 12 and included a necropsy report that showed kidney malfunction. Seems like maybe a possibility to be considered, I don;t know if you can get renal function blood work done on a chicken but maybe...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/starving-chicken-a-true-mystery.1216012/
Hope you get some answers and that she does well.
Has it been like this all of her life? Even when she was a chick?
We have no idea how old she is, when we adopted her she was an adult. She does lay pretty consistently, every other day, and she keeps up with our 18-month-old hens just fine. So, if I were to guess, I’d say she is probably about 3 to 4 years old. We have had her for two years and this problem has been consistent the entire time we’ve had her. Given the feedback on the thread I’m starting to think she just has some sort of digestive disorder and doesn’t form her poops normally.Aww, I hope she gets back on track soon
