Help, I am concerned about my pullets droppings, possible diarrhea - unknown cause

[Eggcessive]

I’m curious about this cause no one else mentioned it. Some of my girls randomly throughout the day have loose droppings the last few weeks but are acting completely normal too.

Chickens can have watery droppings for various reasons, including drinking more water than usual. Coccidiosis usually affects young chickens between 3-6 weeks old and little older unless they have some immunity problems. Most chickens are exposed to it in small bits in the soil and in their droppings and build up tolerance to it.

 

[SJsChickies]

Chickens can have watery droppings for various reasons, including drinking more water than usual. Coccidiosis usually affects young chickens between 3-6 weeks old and little older unless they have some immunity problems. Most chickens are exposed to it in small bits in the soil and in their droppings and build up tolerance to it.

The girls that seem to have it are my 18-22 weekers. None of the little ones. It does concern me when I see it but they’re still laying, running around, dust bathing, roosting, eating, drinking and everything else just fine. It’s been very hot here (well, finally getting down to the mid to high 90s the last two weeks, which has been a nice change) so they drink quite a bit of water. Could that be it?

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

I have 5 9 week pullets who are all having these kind of caramel colored droppings that seem possibly a bit mucus-y. This has been going on for a few weeks and because they all seem very active and healthy and I saw no blood in their droppings I figured it was just their cecal poos. However looking at their droppings this morning I am concerned and wanted to get some other opinions, they are also having very normal looking chicken poos in addition to the caramel colored ones. Thank you so much and apologies for the yucky photos.

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I'm not sure this is your issue, but I had something similar to this. I had bought 2 BYM pullets (one ended up a roo actually) and they all had so much cecal/runny poo! This was around 3/4ths of their poo being cecal. Well, I realized on top of me giving small bits of bread (half a hot dog bun to 6 chickens every 3 days) my family was giving them too and encouraging that as an extra snack some interested kids on our block could give to them too. We did do the hot pepper natural dewormer since we weren't sure what was causing it but wanted to rule out worms. Didn't fix the issue at all. Removed the bread and it was significantly better in a few days and in a week they were pooping a normal 1 cecal to 7 normal poos. The bread only affected the BYMs, but it was still significant. So, the question is, what is their food?

Also, a cecal float is a great idea no matter what. It's also a good idea to squish down and inspect suspicious poos to check up on your chickens' health.

 

[Beau plus penny]

Chickens can have watery droppings for various reasons, including drinking more water than usual. Coccidiosis usually affects young chickens between 3-6 weeks old and little older unless they have some immunity problems. Most chickens are exposed to it in small bits in the soil and in their droppings and build up tolerance to it.

well my 19 week odl chickens got it in july so

 

[chickengr]

The girls that seem to have it are my 18-22 weekers. None of the little ones. It does concern me when I see it but they’re still laying, running around, dust bathing, roosting, eating, drinking and everything else just fine. It’s been very hot here (well, finally getting down to the mid to high 90s the last two weeks, which has been a nice change) so they drink quite a bit of water. Could that be it?

we have hot and dry summers. my chickens drink a lot of water and sometimes they have runny poop. as long as they don't loose weight they are fine.

 

[chickengr]

I'm not sure this is your issue, but I had something similar to this. I had bought 2 BYM pullets (one ended up a roo actually) and they all had so much cecal/runny poo! This was around 3/4ths of their poo being cecal. Well, I realized on top of me giving small bits of bread (half a hot dog bun to 6 chickens every 3 days) my family was giving them too and encouraging that as an extra snack some interested kids on our block could give to them too. We did do the hot pepper natural dewormer since we weren't sure what was causing it but wanted to rule out worms. Didn't fix the issue at all. Removed the bread and it was significantly better in a few days and in a week they were pooping a normal 1 cecal to 7 normal poos. The bread only affected the BYMs, but it was still significant. So, the question is, what is their food?

Also, a cecal float is a great idea no matter what. It's also a good idea to squish down and inspect suspicious poos to check up on your chickens' health.

bread is not chicken food. I do give some but little and not so often. if your chickens don't free range you should buy chicken mash/pellets. if they free range you can give them some chicken mash/pellets, grains and treats. it depends on what they find when they free range. mine are fine with some grains, veggies and free range as they find loads of insects, snails/slugs, lizards and even mice.

 

[chickengr]

I'm not sure this is your issue, but I had something similar to this. I had bought 2 BYM pullets (one ended up a roo actually) and they all had so much cecal/runny poo! This was around 3/4ths of their poo being cecal. Well, I realized on top of me giving small bits of bread (half a hot dog bun to 6 chickens every 3 days) my family was giving them too and encouraging that as an extra snack some interested kids on our block could give to them too. We did do the hot pepper natural dewormer since we weren't sure what was causing it but wanted to rule out worms. Didn't fix the issue at all. Removed the bread and it was significantly better in a few days and in a week they were pooping a normal 1 cecal to 7 normal poos. The bread only affected the BYMs, but it was still significant. So, the question is, what is their food?

Also, a cecal float is a great idea no matter what. It's also a good idea to squish down and inspect suspicious poos to check up on your chickens' health.

bread is not chicken food. I do give some but little and not so often. if your chickens don't free range you should buy chicken mash/pellets. if they free range you can give them some chicken mash/pellets, grains and treats. it depends on what they find when they free range. mine are fine with some grains, veggies and free range as they find loads of insects, snails/slugs, lizards and even mice.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

bread is not chicken food. I do give some but little and not so often. if your chickens don't free range you should buy chicken mash/pellets. if they free range you can give them some chicken mash/pellets, grains and treats. it depends on what they find when they free range. mine are fine with some grains, veggies and free range as they find loads of insects, snails/slugs, lizards and even mice.

We already know this, haha! It was a treat suggested by a relative, but I soon realized they were getting too much from sources that weren't regulated by me. The little bit I was giving them, equivalent to a slice of bread divided among the small flock, was making those two's stomachs churn. Reading my full post, you can tell it stopped as soon as I realized.