topochico225
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Hi!
My 3 hens are in a dog crate by our back door because the temperature got into the teens and there was ice everywhere. Our girls aren't acclimated to the cold-- we've had them since they hatched in May and they've never seen anything like this. I'm probably just being overprotective, but they stay in the crate at night with two heaters (a panel heater and a space heater at a safe distance,) and they free range during the day.
Anyway, with that backstory, my Cinnamon Queen Peebles has had some weird poops. I think it's stress from the weather and being moved, but I wanted another opinion. My brother said "Peebles just did a fountain poop," and when I went to go look it was indeed like a fountain. HUGE puddle of water with some loose urates and some solids. She seems fine, eyes bright, comb and wattles very red, but she seems to be the least cold hardy of all of the girls. When I went to take pictures of the poop, she was huddled on top of the space heater very fluffed up. I give them cracked corn at night before bed to keep them warm, but other than that they just get layer pellets and water with ACV. What is going on??
Pics of Peebles and her poop.
last pic is of other poops, I don't know which chicken(s) they're from.
TIA!
My 3 hens are in a dog crate by our back door because the temperature got into the teens and there was ice everywhere. Our girls aren't acclimated to the cold-- we've had them since they hatched in May and they've never seen anything like this. I'm probably just being overprotective, but they stay in the crate at night with two heaters (a panel heater and a space heater at a safe distance,) and they free range during the day.
Anyway, with that backstory, my Cinnamon Queen Peebles has had some weird poops. I think it's stress from the weather and being moved, but I wanted another opinion. My brother said "Peebles just did a fountain poop," and when I went to go look it was indeed like a fountain. HUGE puddle of water with some loose urates and some solids. She seems fine, eyes bright, comb and wattles very red, but she seems to be the least cold hardy of all of the girls. When I went to take pictures of the poop, she was huddled on top of the space heater very fluffed up. I give them cracked corn at night before bed to keep them warm, but other than that they just get layer pellets and water with ACV. What is going on??
Pics of Peebles and her poop.
TIA!
