Holy crap! Large White Gelatinous Poop. Pics!

[jlwquilter]

I feel like I’m on some hazing show how can this crazy stuff keep happening to me and my little flock?!

So the newest situation is I had a leghorn - Angel-yesterday acting way off. She’d gotten into a lower nesting box - so not the preferred box so that was odd. Then when I checked back several minutes later Angel was hanging her head. When I picked her up I could feel a very hard crop ball. I took her to the patio and placed her in the wire cage. I finished the chores and by then DH was awake. He’s the best crop massager around! He was able to break it up.

We fed her mineral oil and water (Corid as we are treating the flock with it right now). We left her be for awhile. Came back to check on her and she had pooped a lot. A lot. All good. Kept up with the crop massage, oil and water. It improved rapidly. Later after more oil and water I forced some egg into her as she didn’t eat any offered food. More poop. We kept her on the cage all night. Today she was acting a little bit better and her crop had a small ball. More massage, oil and water.

I returned her to the flock. All day she was definitely off but much better than she had been. She ate some crumbles on her own and walked around a bit.

Tonight after I treated another hen I watched Angel. She was acting slow but at least she was out and about. I saw her poop a tiny little poop. I figured it was due to her not eating very much today. So I decided to cage her again and offer her crumbles mixed with buttermilk and mineral oil. She ate a small but decent amount. Next thing I know is she drops the following poop! I can’t believe my eyes!

That’s a baby food jar lid for size comparison. I quickly move Angle in the cage to the floor. I’m thinking it’s a tape worm or intestines. There’s no blood, no pink, just white. It’s shiny moist and gelatinous. Nothing moves. I take pictures.

Has anyone ever seen something like this??

My next post will be of it cut open.

 

[Eggcessive]

White is usually urates or uric acid from the kidney waste. It is shiny like it contains mucus. I don’t see anything that looks like worms or tapeworm.

 

[jlwquilter]

Here it is cut open:

Now I’m thinking egg...? It’s gelatinous in some areas and kinda will spring back into place. Other parts are firm and have a cooked protein type look. There is no color at all anywhere. No blood, no brown, no pink. Just white and a bit of slightly yellowy white. The little Piece in the 2nd pic is hard and I thought maybe a piece of egg shell...?

Oh I’m forgot to say. Back after I quickly placed Angel on the floor and took the pictures I sat down to catch my breath. And here is Angel now on the floor in the cage full of energy! She’s desperate to get out of the cage. She’s a new chicken!

I don’t have any idea of what the heck is going on.

Any guesses???

 

[jlwquilter]

Well that's good news at least! I didn’t see anything like worms either and I was sure at first I would.

How could the unrates be so huge??

 

[jlwquilter]

Yes shiny like it contains mucus. What would cause this?

 

[Eggcessive]

There can be some strange casings or droppings especially with cecal coccidiosis. Perhaps this is related. Here are some pictures of the 2 ceca, the two appendages between the small and large intestine affected by coccidiosis (click on the pictures to enlarge)

 

[jlwquilter]

That looks nasty.

So what you’re saying is maybe the Corid is working and this is what’s coming out if she had it bad?

 

[jlwquilter]

I can hardly wait until morning to see how she is!

She was suddenly so perky and energetic- it was a complete turnaround. I expect her to be somewhat weak as her food intake was low tonight even though she did eat that baby food capful of crumbles and buttermilk.

Stay tuned for the next exciting chapter! OMG.

 

[jlwquilter]

Want to add - for future reference information - there was no smell to this poop. None at all. And I just smelled the cut open pieces and there’s still no smell. None.

Cecal poop normally smells quite fragrant. Does the no smell mean a new guess as to what this is all about?

 

[jlwquilter]

Angel is doing fine! Not 100% yet but she’s moving around with the flock, she ate and drank on her own.

I don’t know was up with that weird poop but passing it seems to have done her a world of good.

I’ll continue to monitor her and post if anything changes.

Thanks again for all th help!