Identify Diarrhea *pics*

[azygous]

It's like a Tums in that it's calcium, but it's a different form of calcium from Tums. Tums is calcium carbonate and hard to digest and absorb. Calcium citrate is a form of calcium that digests easily and therefore is absorbed and goes right to work quickly, something that can be critical in a reproductive crisis.

 

[TexasNette]

I had a chicken eat a lizard-one gulp gone-would that cause diarrhea?

 

[azygous]

I had a chicken eat a lizard-one gulp gone-would that cause diarrhea?

Not likely. It will require much longer than usual for the acids in the crop to soften the reptile enough to go down into the lower digestive system. But chickens have been eating their smaller cousins for eons, and they're still going strong as a species.