HELP ASAP!!

[the3ofus+oursixchicks]

her poop was brown this morning with white and still runny. OH MY GOODNESS it smelled HORRIBLE it had black speck things in it.

 

[rbaker0345]

To see the eggs you would need a microscope, slides and some kind of fecal flotation media. Here is a chart of some:

but not all of those effect chickens. Here are some I've been seeing lately: strongyles

whipworms

coccidia (they don't all look like this, but in general in chickens, they're egg shaped with a round nucleus)


Here's a really good link for some pics: http://www.thepetdoctorinc.com/2011/08/whipworms-roundworms-hookworms-my/

 

[rbaker0345]

Here's a really good tutorial on how to run your own fecal flotation. I don't do the epsom salt thing, I just get a bottle of fecasol from my vet. http://fiascofarm.com/goats/fecals.htm

 

[the3ofus+oursixchicks]

what I saw was black oval shaped things. could be something she ate yesterday in the yard or maybe something that is in the blockage.

 

[rbaker0345]

Yeah, you wouldn't see the eggs with the naked eye, its probably something she ate.

 

[rbaker0345]

They don't look like this do they?:

 

[casportpony]

They don't look like this do they?:

That looks like a bloody cecal poop to me... what is it? -Kathy

 

[the3ofus+oursixchicks]

no. they looked like half of seeds or something. I should have taken a pic

 

[casportpony]

Do,they look like seeds that she can fin in your yard?

-Kathy

 

[the3ofus+oursixchicks]

well, not really sure. they were halves it looks like to me not whole. but I guess that would have to be it if it isn't worm eggs.