Hello all. This is my first time posting, I will try to give all relevant info.
I purchased 4 ducklings a week and a half ago, 2 pekins and 2 ancona.
My littlest duckling is an ancona and has recently started pooping what looks like a vibrant (vs dull) hunter/forest green verging on a really dark teal. It's not lime or mint green like I have seen in other posts. This started sometime yesterday morning or the night before that. The duckling is otherwise acting completely normal. It has always been the smallest one but also always the most curious and brave and continues to be that way.
My concern yesterday was that it may be impacted due to my adding pine shavings to their enclosure so i quickly changed their litter. This morning I saw only one of the green poops in the litter and was hopeful that whatever it was had passed. I let them have their daily bath and monitored for the duckling's poop. Once it pooped in the water and it looked clear/a little cloudy like maybe it was mucous and that was it. A little bit later it pooped again and it seemed a little watery but more like the usual dark tan poop like the other ones. I was excited! Came back to check on them just now and more dark green poop. I watched and it was the same duckling (the others are pooping like always). But then I watched it poop again and it was more in line with what the others are doing.
I have been feeding them a flock raiser crumble with nutrional yeast mixed in. In the last 5 days I have introduced them to both red and green cabbage and they go bonkers over it. That's all they have had access to besides a towel that I took away 2 days ago because I was worried they were eating it.
Below are pics I took to try and capture the color. It isnt a dull dark green like it appears in the pic, its really vibrant and it's hard to capture it with the lighting I have. It looks a little wetter today but yesterday it seemed weirdly dry. Some got into their food dish and it shows the color a little better. There is one image where the poop looks like it blends in with the litter, that was the poop the duckling did not long after pooping the dark green. If I am able to capture the color better I will post it.
Any suggestions? What has me extra puzzled, but hopeful, is that there has been no change in appetite/hydration/behavior.
I purchased 4 ducklings a week and a half ago, 2 pekins and 2 ancona.
My littlest duckling is an ancona and has recently started pooping what looks like a vibrant (vs dull) hunter/forest green verging on a really dark teal. It's not lime or mint green like I have seen in other posts. This started sometime yesterday morning or the night before that. The duckling is otherwise acting completely normal. It has always been the smallest one but also always the most curious and brave and continues to be that way.
My concern yesterday was that it may be impacted due to my adding pine shavings to their enclosure so i quickly changed their litter. This morning I saw only one of the green poops in the litter and was hopeful that whatever it was had passed. I let them have their daily bath and monitored for the duckling's poop. Once it pooped in the water and it looked clear/a little cloudy like maybe it was mucous and that was it. A little bit later it pooped again and it seemed a little watery but more like the usual dark tan poop like the other ones. I was excited! Came back to check on them just now and more dark green poop. I watched and it was the same duckling (the others are pooping like always). But then I watched it poop again and it was more in line with what the others are doing.
I have been feeding them a flock raiser crumble with nutrional yeast mixed in. In the last 5 days I have introduced them to both red and green cabbage and they go bonkers over it. That's all they have had access to besides a towel that I took away 2 days ago because I was worried they were eating it.
Below are pics I took to try and capture the color. It isnt a dull dark green like it appears in the pic, its really vibrant and it's hard to capture it with the lighting I have. It looks a little wetter today but yesterday it seemed weirdly dry. Some got into their food dish and it shows the color a little better. There is one image where the poop looks like it blends in with the litter, that was the poop the duckling did not long after pooping the dark green. If I am able to capture the color better I will post it.
Any suggestions? What has me extra puzzled, but hopeful, is that there has been no change in appetite/hydration/behavior.
