HUGE poops

[RasMama]

I tried a search but came up with nothing.
Started about a week ago, when I let the girls out in the morning I noticed a HUGE poop in their coop. Definitely chicken poo but it is way big, about or bigger than the size of their (regular-large sized) eggs. Thought it might just have been a fluke big one, but it's become much more regular of an occurrence now, like every day or every other day. Nobody is broody and the layers are only about 7 months old (on the search a past post said that as hens get older things get 'stretched out' & big poos start to happen... but my girls aren't old yet). Nobody's behavior seems different at all, food hasn't changed other than adding some free-range. They get Purina Layella (or whatever) crumbles, kitchen scraps & the occasional supervised free-range. Huge poos are solid form, but not hard. Dark brown in color with the white chicken poo thing on one end. Could it just be that they're getting more grass & foliage now?
TIA

 

[miss_jayne]

they do big poops in the morning before getting off the roosts. all birds poop before flight. normal kind of stuff if there is no sign of lethargy or illness.

 

[caralouise1974]

My eight month old bluebelle lays really large eggs, and also does very big poos. It is definitely true that they get stretched down there, and as a result can offload a really good big poo!

Both of my girls do their biggest poos either straight after they've just laid an egg or first thing in the morning.