Help! Poop issues!

[misspoppins]

Sorry if this is TMI, but:

Some of my chick's droppings are very wet and slimy (YUCK) and some of them are normal-firmish. So I'm wondering...what is normal? Is this supposed to be happening or is there something wrong with my chicks? Is there something I can feed them to fix this? All they eat right now is their feed and water...no grit, no other supplements.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Jenski]

Sounds like you have . . . normal stinky chicks.

Just wait until they are full-grown stinky chickens.

Each day a chicken will emit caecal poo - - soft, toffee-ish, extremely smelly waste from the caecum, the blind pouch(es) off the intestine. Gross but harmless. Enjoy.

 

[JudyH]

Well, from what I've read here, the "poo" is kinda how you can tell your chicks and chickens are doing.

But, I have to say, one thing that I noticed. For the first week, when I would handle one of the chicks (of course it would be nervous) and then I would put it back down into the brooder box, it would poo and the poo wouldn't look like normal poo. It would be more runny and wet. I kinda think that mine has nervous stomach LOL

 

[JudyH]

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Yep, that was what mine looked like! Undoubtedly, my chicks emitted this when they were nervous LOL

 

[gritsar]

I agree with Jenski. Sounds like caecel (or cecal) poo.

Look here to be sure:

http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

 

[futurefarmer08]

Thanks!!! That sight was super helpful!!! Now maybe I can stop worrying so much!

I do have healthy chickens after all!

 

[Jenski]

Yep, as long as you're getting a reasonable amount of "normal" poos in there (reasonably solid brownish-green with the white cap), I would not worry about the runny ones. When I let my little ones out to play, we inevitably have some runnies in all the excitement of being out . . . *sigh*

 

[misspoppins]

Thanks guys! Very helpful!!

I'm glad to know everything is normal! And thanks for the link.

 

[CoopCrazy]

Thanks for the post I was having the same thing. Always when i tried to play with them . Saved me a post

 

[ging3rhoffman]

Speaking of poop...lol, my baby chicks are 5 days old now and seem very healthy. All of them are eating and drinking, however a few of them have poop stuck on their little fluff, when i try to hold them and pull it off they squak their heads off and i get the same results when trying to use warm water to get it off. Is there an easier method?