muddy looking poo...

[gumbii]

i have 8 giant blue cochins, and they're like... i forgot how old they are... they just stopped making PIO PIO noises and are starting to sound like chickens...

they're super fluffy, but i noticed that they felt a bit thin... like, i can feel their chest bone kind of sharp/pointy... they eat like crazy, but i also noticed that they don't poop like normal... they have like brown mud looking diarrhea poop... but they've pooped like that since i can remember... but now after reading a couple of threads, they're saying that it could be cooci, or something... but what should i check for, and do with them...?


thanks in advanced...

 

[spish]

have you ever wormed them?

 

[Kim1970]

/facepalm

I have never wormed mine.

How often do you need to worm?
And with what?

 

[spish]

i worm mine two times per year (spring and autumn) with flubenvet.

for the first few years of chicken keeping i never wormed mine and always seemed to get chickens that went thin and scrawny with sloppy poops that ended up dying, i never knew i was meant to worm my chickens either until i came across byc

now i do it twice a year and my chickens are in super health. i always put apple cider vinegar in their water to give them a boost

 

[gumbii]

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omg...


this is my first flock... so i'll be getting some med's tomorrow...

i feel bad, but now i know that i know what is going on... thanks for the quick reply, too bad i just saw it... the stores are closed...

 

[Celtic Chick]

Poo pics! Hope this helps you!

http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

 

[okieinalaska]

What do you use to worm them?

I just bought some raw apple cider vinegar today for my chickies...

 

[spish]

to worm them you need a good all round wormer. i use flubenvet as there is no egg withdrawel time with this. i dont know which wormers people use over the pond but im sure if you do a quick search on here you'll find the name of one

 

[Kim1970]

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lol I cant believe I just bookmarked a page with chicken poo pics!
Thank you for this though. It appears my chickens poo is normal.
And my oh my what a wide range of normal!