Is this diarrhea or normal?? Not Cocci, right? (*Photo update)

[rancher hicks]

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Ok what to do.

No greens , peas, oatmeal or vitamins in the water. Until they get bigger. Then just small amounts.

Commercial feed has all the vitamins chicks/chickens need. To many greens and you'll get the runs and so will they. Even the big girls. Diet CAN affect your eggs so go easy on this stuff.

Vitamins are fine on OCCASION. Not everyday or every week perhaps once a month if that. TO MANY VITAMINS CAN CAUSE KIDNEY PROBLEMS. I wonder how many sick birds are due to over doing the meds and stuff. I usually put some in the water for one day and then change back to just water. Even ACV can be over done and need not be put in the water everyday.

Cocci is normal in all chickens but the medicated feed is to help them build up their immunity system, it is NOT a cure. I rarely use medicated feed and have had no problems. I might use it for the first few weeks.

Remember the feed folks have spent years developing feed and it has everything for healthy chickens. It's the other stuff they eat while ranging and what we throw to them that throws off the system and we need to balance that. Remember less is better.

Read about the different types of grit so you can avoid "sour crop".

I wish you success and a pleasant chicken experience.

Rancher

 

[Sunshyne276]

Wow.. Ok, thank you for all the info!!

First, i've been giving vitamin/electrolytes almost daily. Not quite daily, but almost!

Didn't know it could harm their kidneys, THANK YOU for sharing this!

Also, I didn't realize oatmeals and a few treats could cause the diarrhea.
I gave these treats to other chickens I raised, and they never had the problem.
So this is also news to me.

Thank you for the information!

The poo in the pics - would it be "caecal" poo or diarrhea?

 

[imaturtlefan]

I have 4, 2 week old speckled sussex pullets, and was wondering if what I was seeing is cocci as well... the thing is, in that poo chart, the last 2 in the healthy category, look like what Ive seen others on this forum say looks like cocci...anyway, Ive seen 2 little poos now that look like the 2nd to last one, but chicks act fine.... no other symptoms, nothing on the hind feathers either. It says in the charts its a little intestinal lining...

 

[Sunshyne276]

Yech, that poo chart makes me sick every time I go back to look at it!! lol
Hope all our babies are ok. I'm seeing the runny poo less often now.
I've taken them off the vitamins in the water.......wondering this was the problem!

All they are getting, for a while, is clean clear water and their start feed!

 

[silkiechicken]

Looks like melted chocolate. That's a cecal poop.

Cocci will give you huntched up lethargic chicks that look sick, don't move, and eventually splurt out blood as if someone spit after having their tooth knocked out.

All they need is fresh water and feed like earlier posted.

One thing to note, if they have never been exposed to adult chicken poop or soil, they can't have cocci. Cocci is a protozoa who's oocyts(eggs) sleep in the soil, and reproduces in the gut of it's hosts.