Thanks I worry a lot! These are my first flocks, and the older chickens here have been poorly managed, so I don’t have much to go on! I’m planning giving about 1/8 cup mealworms to 25 chickens every couple of days, once my colony gets going.
They also prefer the pellets to the dry crumbles. I let them out in the am, they go straight for their feeders and water, about an hour later (I’m not able to move them due to a recent injury) my husband and I go out, refill everything and move them onto fresh grass. The immediately start combing over it for bugs, eating little bits of grass and clover. This is why I think
moderate amounts of greens aren’t bad for confined birds.
Could the runny poops have been cecal poops? Apparently these can be somewhat normal, but extra stinky and wet. Here are some pics that were identified as cecal poops from a thread I had (worry a lot) on my chickens poops (because I had to treat for coccidiosis and don’t know fully what normal is yet)
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Any red is intestinal shed (what I was asking about), but the runny ones I was told are occasionally normal cecal poops.