bjdewell
Songster
I have four 8-month-old Black Australorps who are all happy, seem healthy, and eat egg-layer pellets as their feed. They have water available near their coop/run and all over the yard. They get the same treats - grubs and a scratch mixture - once a day. They are free-rangers, all day long, from sunrise to dusk in my backyard. They were each laying an egg (4 per day) during the summer's warm, sunny weather. Now it has cooled down, we've had some occasional cloudy, cool, sometimes rainy days and nights down to low 40s. Nothing else has changed except the weather and the leaves which are blown into the yard, and they love to eat. They are now laying 3 eggs per day, and that's the only change in their behavior. They run around the yard and hill, take lots of dust baths, scratch and peck at the soil all day long, eating well as a group, and are roosting and sleeping all night.
Their poops remain the same size and consistency, Some are their normal brownish with white, some are greenish, possibly from the new Desert Willow leaves they are eating. But some are a darker color, dark gray in color, sometimes appearing black, and this is now in the last two or three days.
Is this a sign of disease if everything else is the same with the hen's normal behavior? Any suggestions or ideas if anything is wrong.?
I'm attaching the three colors of poop that were laid this morning, brown, green and grey/black. Thank you!
Their poops remain the same size and consistency, Some are their normal brownish with white, some are greenish, possibly from the new Desert Willow leaves they are eating. But some are a darker color, dark gray in color, sometimes appearing black, and this is now in the last two or three days.
Is this a sign of disease if everything else is the same with the hen's normal behavior? Any suggestions or ideas if anything is wrong.?
I'm attaching the three colors of poop that were laid this morning, brown, green and grey/black. Thank you!
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