New chickens' poop really stinks!

[Wyorp Rock]

About 2 weeks in and their smell improved greatly. I just found out my original hen has tapeworms, so i guess everybody will be getting wormed at some point this summer

Glad the smell is improving!

Did you get a fecal test or see the Tapeworm proglottids in the poop?
You will want to use Praziquantel to treat Tapeworms in poultry. If you are seeing them, then if they were mine, I would treat asap.

 

[Birdielee]

Glad the smell is improving!

Did you get a fecal test or see the Tapeworm proglottids in the poop?
You will want to use Praziquantel to treat Tapeworms in poultry. If you are seeing them, then if they were mine, I would treat asap.

The hen that I know has them is the one who got ripped open 3 weeks ago and her skin just healed back together. So i could worm her, but I'd rather let her get some strength. I just wormed my son's rabbit; I saw the moving sections.... proglottids? In his poop. The chicken, I've never wormed in the 2 months I've had her. But I let her poop build up in my bucket like never before and as I was burying it today, there were ...proglottids... moving there, too.

If proglottids is what I'm talking about.

 

[Birdielee]

Sorry. I don't know how I didn't see you posted a video for me. Yes, they are proglottids. In the rabbit and my original hen.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Is she eating/drinking well and recovering from her injuries o.k.?
If she is, then I would consider going ahead and treating her for Tapeworms since they do affect the overall health of the bird and will continue to reproduce.

 

[Birdielee]

Pl

Is she eating/drinking well and recovering from her injuries o.k.?
If she is, then I would consider going ahead and treating her for Tapeworms since they do affect the overall health of the bird and will continue to reproduce.

She's doing well, but she lost a LOT of weight.
The medicine you suggested is different than the 2 I've heard of before

 

[Birdielee]

Ok. I read all about it in your link

24 hour fast? I'll have to wait a little while first

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Pl

She's doing well, but she lost a LOT of weight.
The medicine you suggested is different than the 2 I've heard of before

Tapeworms=Weight loss.

 

[Birdielee]

Tapeworms=Weight loss.

Uh, well, ok, sure. I agree that that sounds 100% correct, but life-threatening injury+ antibiotics +not eating also = weight loss. And I guess she's got them all.

Anyway, what I'm hearing is you suggest I worm her anyway.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

So she's not able to eat or she's not willing to eat?
Is her crop emptying overnight? After 3wks, I would expect her to be eating fairly well on her own. With antibiotic use, she may have sour crop? Something worth checking on.

 

[Birdielee]

She's able to eat. The only thing that interested her for a while was sunflower seeds, but I was holding out for her to eat a more balanced diet. I kept her in her run for a while after she got hurt.
She was on antibiotics, and I don't know much about sour crop, but i suspected that was happening one day, maybe a week and a half ago. She leaned down to eat and a small amount of water shot out of her mouth.
When she recovered her strength enough and I got the (previously suspected to be wormy) new chicken situation semi- under control, i let her out of her run to wander around. The clover and grass etc that she ate seemed to stimulate her appetite, and then she ate a ton of food. That was when I actually learned where the crop is.
Her injury coincided with my buying new feed, pellets instead of crumbles.
Since she got off the antibiotics, she has more of an appetite, but she still is very thin. She doesn't seem sickly, though. She's very active, alert, and insistent. Wants to scratch up all the garden beds she can find
None of the chickens seem super interested in the new feed.
She's eating a lot more than she was last week. I'm making a mix for her, crushing a little corn and mixing a ton of sunflower seeds and a little barley, flax, oats, and pellets together. She mostly wants the sunflower seeds and corn. I'm trying to put some weight on her.

I dont suspect her of having sour crop now, but I'd like to know if the water that shot out of her mouth was related in any way.