Newbie here! What's wrong with my chicken?

[U_Stormcrow]

First, let get this out of the way. I am NOT an expert on Poultry illnesses. @Overo Mare and @Eggcessive 's knowledge is easily 100, probably 1000 times my own on that subject.

I have done a little reading, and I've seen a bunch of pictures. Plenty of websites say greenish looking poops can be the result of high greens diets and free ranging. My birds free range, and their poops don't look like that.

There are a number of common poultry diseases associated with green or greenish poops, but also closely associated with loose stools or diarrhea. Your birds don't have that.

The white powdery crystaline stuff looks like normal urate deposits to me.

That leaves the small, apparently round, white bits scattered throughout. My cell phone doesn't have the greatest of screens, but I'd be worried about worms or other parasite eggs - which is also often associated with green poops. Most pictures show brighter green, due to excess bile.

So while my inclination is simply to trust OM's expert opinion on this, my thinkings (guided by my admittedly limited education and experience), lead me in the same direction.

 

[Chickgal22]

Do those look like fly eggs in the poo, or are they worm eggs or tapeworm segments?

I think they might be fly eggs! His area is now covered in flies!

We separated him from the rest of the flock to have his own food and water (we witnessed him being bullied by our Silkie rooster).

 

[Chickgal22]

Since you have possibly 2 other cockerels, he may be getting kept from water. I put multiple containers of shaded water around the free ranging area during hot weather. Adding water to a small amount of chicken feed that can be changed daily can also get more water into them. Something like Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell 2 ml daily by mouth for 2-3 days can help give a boost.

Sounds good! He's doing a lot better today, but we'll go ahead and do that! Thank you!!

 

[Chickgal22]

Sounds good! He's doing a lot better today, but we'll go ahead and do that! Thank you!!

His poop is still green, but it's a lot less solid and looks more like chicken poop. Is there anything I can give him to help with parasites? Maybe there's a gut issue?

 

[Chickgal22]

Since you have possibly 2 other cockerels, he may be getting kept from water. I put multiple containers of shaded water around the free ranging area during hot weather. Adding water to a small amount of chicken feed that can be changed daily can also get more water into them. Something like Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell 2 ml daily by mouth for 2-3 days can help give a boost.

He's doing a lot better today, but yes. The plan is to do that too.

His poop is still green, but it's a lot less solid and looks more like chicken poop. Is there anything I can give him to help with parasites? Maybe there's a gut issue?

 

[Chickgal22]

Do those look like fly eggs in the poo, or are they worm eggs or tapeworm segments

His poop is still green, but it's a lot less solid and looks more like chicken poop. Is there anything I can give him to help with parasites? Maybe there's a gut issue?

 

[Nicrom]

I am actually brand new to chickens so I could be way off. The only reason I’m writing is my chicken had the same color poop recently. And was really sleepy acting as well.

I treated the whole flock with Corid on day 3 because I read even if it wasn’t coccidiosis it would hurt to treat them. Although I maybe should have gone with a medicine for worms. I just didn’t know what to do.

Mine was so lethargic she wouldn’t drink so I held water to her beak and she had a reflux to drink. I think that helped a ton.

She wasn’t eating so I gave her boiled egg yolk which she woke up for and gobbled up.

Then I gave her a bit of yogurt and continued with getting her water that had vitamins, probiotics and electrolytes. (Before I started her on the Corid that is) day three she finally began to eat a little bit of her crumbles.

After 3 days she was so better and I was able to bring her back to the coop the next morning. She so alert and miserable being in isolation.

Like I said, I’m absolutely NO expert but that is what I did. If anything I said was wrong please correct me! Just wanted to give a little hope when you have a sick chicken on your hands. I was pretty worried and wasn’t sure those first two days if she was going to make it.

I wish you all the best!!!