My one year old California Valley quail hen has been having ENORMOUS poop, the size of her eggs.
She and all her fellows were recently on Tylosin for some persistent diarrhea. While they were still on it, I separated her to treat a swollen footpad. It opened up on its own before I got to her, so I'm not sure what caused it. The skin looks weird, raggedy like fringe. Maybe fungal? I haven't seen anything like it before. I've been cleaning and dressing it with Bacitracin and Blue Kote and wrapping it back up. She's also on a fleece pad for cushion.
The diarrhea stopped, and she's no longer on Tylosin. I have them all probiotics for a few days after finishing the course. But then she started to have huge poops, about the size of one of her eggs. She roosts on a small shelf in her clinical cage at night, and has left these giant poops both in the shelf and on the floor of her cage, so she seems to pass them at different times of day. She's still laying eggs and does not appear at all broody, though I've left eggs with her in case (I read somewhere that broody hens might hold their poop and pass only very large ones a few times a day).
Attaching a photo of her foot when I first started treating it (she lost her toes to a hair tourniquet as a chick
) and photos of a few of the feces.
She and all her fellows were recently on Tylosin for some persistent diarrhea. While they were still on it, I separated her to treat a swollen footpad. It opened up on its own before I got to her, so I'm not sure what caused it. The skin looks weird, raggedy like fringe. Maybe fungal? I haven't seen anything like it before. I've been cleaning and dressing it with Bacitracin and Blue Kote and wrapping it back up. She's also on a fleece pad for cushion.
The diarrhea stopped, and she's no longer on Tylosin. I have them all probiotics for a few days after finishing the course. But then she started to have huge poops, about the size of one of her eggs. She roosts on a small shelf in her clinical cage at night, and has left these giant poops both in the shelf and on the floor of her cage, so she seems to pass them at different times of day. She's still laying eggs and does not appear at all broody, though I've left eggs with her in case (I read somewhere that broody hens might hold their poop and pass only very large ones a few times a day).
Attaching a photo of her foot when I first started treating it (she lost her toes to a hair tourniquet as a chick
) and photos of a few of the feces.
