Healthy morning poop?

[PolloGal]

Hope I am posting this in the correct spot…but just needed to be sure my 10 week old rooster is healthy. Is this a normal first morning poop? It doesn’t really look like blood… Just a very light colored stool mixed in….but I can’t tell for sure. I know the morning poop is always a lot looser. Thanks for any help!

 

[SmiYa0126]

Hello! Looks like shed lining to me. This is the age I usually see it more often.

 

[centrarchid]

Pellet on left is from the cecum. We did a trial a couple years back looking at feces as a function of time of day. Cecal poop typical retained overnight so as not to be excreted near roost. The "pellet" to right has lots of moisture typical of a well hydrated bird that has largely cleared it intestinal tract of digesta.

 

[PolloGal]

Hello! Looks like shed lining to me. This is the age I usually see it more often.

Thank you. I have never seen stool like this before and was concerned about it. It sounds like it is something I may see in all my chickens when they reach this age? Thanks again.

 

[aart]

It sounds like it is something I may see in all my chickens when they reach this age?

Yes, at that age and beyond.
There are a lot of 'normal' poops you'll have to get used to seeing.

Good visual references for all kinds of poops,
just don't jump to any terrible conclusions too quickly:
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/whats-scoop-on-chicken-poop-digestive.html

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/?topic=17568.0

 

[PolloGal]

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate your help!