Help please. Strange fleshy balls in droppings.

BawkbawkB

In the Brooder
Aug 6, 2025
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I found the strangest chicken poop I've ever seen today. The first few pictures were in the coop, under the roost bar. It appears to be small fleshy spheres in with a regular poo. Its not as thin as regular blood. I didnt think intestinal lining made spheres like this. Is this shedding, cocci, or something else?

The last picture I found in the run. The red substance does look more like blood. They just ate a big zucchini so perhaps that's why the accompanying poo is green?

Everyone appears to be acting normally; eating, drinking, movement.
6 hens are about 6 months old
6 hens are about 2.5 years old
All recently switched to layer feed since the youngest started laying eggs.

Thanks!
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There also is yellow urates in the poop which can be from liver problems usually related to reproductive infection, cancer, fatty liver disease or ascites (water belly.) Those red blobs look a bit like eggs that can be seen in the ovary. I may be off base though, since I am not a vet. In the picture below by casportpony you can see some similar red eggs in oviduct cancer:

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Here is another picture of oviduct cancer:
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