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[browncow15]

WARNING! Poop pictures!!

Yes, the day would not be complete without some chicken poop pictures right? I have been actively observing my 2 new babes and lots of poop being examined. Who knew I would be so interested in poop! So this morning when I woke up I found this poop. It is different than I have seen from my other chickens so I have done lots of reading this morning and been to the infamous poop link http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0

So does this fall under the "coral colored urates?" Would love your input. They both seem fine, perky, don't seem sick, this is just different and so I can't help but worry about my new girls.

Isn't that what you do with all babies, animal or human, examine their poo! LOL!

Anyway how old are your babies?

Edited because I'm computer retarded after posting from my phone for so long!

 

[flyladyrocks]

Isn't that what you do with all babies, animal or human, examine their poo! LOL!

Anyway how old are your babies?

Edited because I'm computer retarded after posting from my phone for so long!

 

[racinchickins]

Is anyone else having trouble with flies this year? We hardly had any problems with them last year, but they are terrible this year. Do any birds eat them? I know my chickens ignore them, but was wondering about Guineas or Muscovys?

 

[browncow15]

At that age and with no other symptoms my guess would be just intestinal lining.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Is anyone else having trouble with flies this year? We hardly had any problems with them last year, but they are terrible this year. Do any birds eat them? I know my chickens ignore them, but was wondering about Guineas or Muscovys?

Funny you should ask - we were just discussing flies at my house last night -- DD and I were noticing that we haven't seen hardly ANY horse flies this year, that deer flies were there but at reduced numbers but that regular ol' house flies are AWFUL. Every now and then one of the girls in the coop will catch one against the screen door and take a peck at it, but they pretty much just ignore them as far as trying to eat them- though they do seem annoyed by them if/when they land on them, etc (who isn't, lol). I've never noticed any birds (birds other than chickens that is) going after adult flies, but I do know they love larvae if/when they encounter them.

 

[Birdylady3]

Is anyone else having trouble with flies this year? We hardly had any problems with them last year, but they are terrible this year. Do any birds eat them? I know my chickens ignore them, but was wondering about Guineas or Muscovys?

O.m.g yes! They are bad here. I have been spraying my coops and areas down with bug spray just to get rid of them. They are really bad after the rain storms. The chickens won't eat them but the ducks will.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Is anyone else having trouble with flies this year? We hardly had any problems with them last year, but they are terrible this year. Do any birds eat them? I know my chickens ignore them, but was wondering about Guineas or Muscovys?

They are horrible this year. We got a week or so of relief after we sprayed most of the area down with permethrin. But seven was not helping. Also it seems like it is mainly house flies or large house flies not so much horse flies or mosquitoes. My ducks will eat them if the flies are slow or still but the duck pool tens to be the breeding area this year so there is a never ending supply for the ducks. The chickens and the ducks will eat the flies right off the fly tape.
I'm thinking of asking Dh to respray the permethrin 3 times in a set of 10 days apart. Then most of the eggs should be gone. I need the duck pool to provide enough water for the ducks to stay cool but at the same time I want it gone.

 

[flyladyrocks]

Is anyone else having trouble with flies this year? We hardly had any problems with them last year, but they are terrible this year. Do any birds eat them? I know my chickens ignore them, but was wondering about Guineas or Muscovys?

 

[lilrider]

Here's pictures of my small flock so far. Pardon the make shift coop. Its an old horse stall. I'm building the real coop on my vacation next week. Lucky them it stays about 75 tops in there because its a basement barn.

In fact they were stuck with makeshift feeders and waterers because mine arrived 2 days late (darn amazon)

Here's pretty much my whole flock. The white call duck is female the brown is male. Then I have a lavender silkie hen an EE roo a polish roo and hen (rooster was sick when I got him and didn't make it) and an ameracauna hen.

 

[Quinstar]

Ok y'all. I'm at a loss... For the last 2 weeks my ladies egg production has plummeted! I have 8 (out of 16) girls that are around a year old. We normally get 5-7 eggs a day. We are lucky if we get any right now. There was not a single egg yesterday. It's like they all got together and decided to go on strike. I think a couple may be molting, but definitely not all of them. Any ideas what could have caused the extreme change and what to do about it. For the first time since they started laying we don't have a single egg in the fridge! If I have to go to buy store eggs when I have 16 birds I'm gonna lose it.