is this a good product for probiotics?

[frostic]

One of my chickens has had diarrea for about 5 days, and skipped 3 days laying eggs.
today she layed an egg but still diarrea. i was wondering if this would be a good
product to use to administer probiotics link below.
they eat and drink water but the chicken with diarrea seems to eat less than the other chickens so i think maybe she needs probiotics?

https://www.walmart.com/ip/HENTASTIC-PROBIOTIC-PELLETS

HENTASTIC PROBIOTIC PELLETS Not only tasty treats for chicks and chickens, but they also promote good digestive health with probiotics
Made in the usa

ingredients:
Wheat Flour, Rendered Beef Fat, Glucose, Peanut Flour, Dried Mealworms, Turmeric, Calcium Carbonate, Mineral Oil, Maltodextrin, Dried Bacillus Subtillis Fermentation Product, Citric Acid, Buffered Distilled Vinegar

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I don't know about that product. I do know many chickens will drink more and eat less in hot weather which can make for loose droppings. So maybe that's what is going on.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

As @oldhenlikesdogs said, the issue may well be just the heat and more water consumed will make the feces extremely runny.
The feed you are referring to only has one type of probiotic (Bacillus Subtillis). does it say they are live active cultures?
I believe a superior source of probiotics (and less expensive) is Gro2Max powder. It has a blend of both probiotic bacteria and yeasts formulated specifically for chickens and can be mixed in water (preferred) or feed.

 

[frostic]

As @oldhenlikesdogs said, the issue may well be just the heat and more water consumed will make the feces extremely runny.
The feed you are referring to only has one type of probiotic (Bacillus Subtillis). does it say they are live active cultures?
I believe a superior source of probiotics (and less expensive) is Gro2Max powder. It has a blend of both probiotic bacteria and yeasts formulated specifically for chickens and can be mixed in water (preferred) or feed.

but where do i get it? I don't have a TSC near by. I can only order things online for my chickens. the feed store don't have any probiotics that is close to me. walmart is the only place i can find probiotics so i really don't know what to get. and yes its high temps here. 116 a week ago and 103 today we are cooling off from the heatwave but its only 1 of my chickens doing it. the other 2 seem fine. its my best layer that is having the watery poop

 

[frostic]

on another note she layed an egg today but it has rocks attached to it.
you can tell that it is rocks after i broke one of them off. it seems her body is fusing rocks on her eggs now? it isn't calcium. It is small pieces of the granet i put by their food. why would her eggs get rocks embedded in them?

 

[tjo804]

@frostic can you post pics of the poo and the egg? That will be very helpful

 

[tjo804]

@frostic can you post pics of the poo and the egg? That will be very helpful.

You can order on line from TSC

 

[frostic]

@frostic can you post pics of the poo and the egg? That will be very helpful

I can't. I don't own a camera. it looks like normal poop its just liquid. it has the white cap but is a dark green liquid at the bottom of it.

 

[frostic]

@frostic can you post pics of the poo and the egg? That will be very helpful.

You can order on line from TSC

Gro2Max powder is not recognized by TSC Can't order something they don't have. Only link i'm finding for it is on ebay and I don't trust anyone on ebay because last time i used it i was charged $16,000 and I didn't even purchase anything from them and it took me over 4 months to get it fixed because paypal wanted to steal money... so i'm not using that bad service.

 

[frostic]

As @oldhenlikesdogs does it say they are live active cultures?

no it don't say that. and i can't find the Gro2Max powder anywhere but ebay.
TSC does not find it when searching.. I can't find anywhere to buy it. please help?