Normal poop with pale yellow poo?

[mamamarye]

We have 6 Barred rock hens that are coming up on six months of age. They started laying in mid July and have steadily increased egg output in this time. Just this week we have been getting almost 5-6 per day.

All chickens are acting normally. They did not get free range time last two days due to husband fertilzing the yard but it has since rained and I let them out this morning.

They frequently visit our back deck and I found this odd poop and became a bit concerned. It looks like scrambled egg with a normal poo. No one is acting off and clearly she had energy to go up the steps and back again. I cannot really tell anybody apart (but I do have leg bands I may have to employ).

Since egg laying began, one laid what I believe to be a rubber egg. All other eggs have been fine.

Attached is a photo of this poo. Thanks for any insight

 

[Lady of McCamley]

It doesn't look very worrisome to me from the photo, but you alone can see it up close.

I'll link a poo chart below so you can see the wide variation of normal. An occasional odd looking poo can usually be attributed to something they ate rather than illness.

Keep a watch but don't worry.
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/whats-scoop-on-chicken-poop-digestive.html

If you keep seeing that, then inspect the hen more closely. It has a tiny resemblance to the material in a lash egg which would indicate egg tract infection, but chances are it is just something she ate and passed.
LofMc

 

[bradymars]

We have 6 Barred rock hens that are coming up on six months of age. They started laying in mid July and have steadily increased egg output in this time. Just this week we have been getting almost 5-6 per day.

All chickens are acting normally. They did not get free range time last two days due to husband fertilzing the yard but it has since rained and I let them out this morning.

They frequently visit our back deck and I found this odd poop and became a bit concerned. It looks like scrambled egg with a normal poo. No one is acting off and clearly she had energy to go up the steps and back again. I cannot really tell anybody apart (but I do have leg bands I may have to employ).

Since egg laying began, one laid what I believe to be a rubber egg. All other eggs have been fine.

Attached is a photo of this poo. Thanks for any insight

It looks like mucus but hard to tell

 

[RainForestBird]

I wanted to start a new post on this, but can't find the Post button. Can someone please tell me where it is on every page? I have 5 Serama pullets that I have had for about 3 weeks. I haven't mixed them with the rest of the flock yet. Frankly, I'm a little worried that our weather has been too erratic lately, 40's last night and 60's during the day. So I've been keeping them inside with a 40 watt light at night. They go outside for several hours during the day, if its not raining. One of them has been having liquid poop last night and today, sort of the consistency and color of Gulden's Brown Mustard. The others poops are more solid mixed with white. Should I start Corrid? I'd have to give it to all of them because I'm not entirely sure which pullet is the problem. Also would putting both apple cider vinegar (Bragg's) with Corrid in the water be defeating the purpose? I've been wondering about that for awhile because I had some other pullets on Corrid and also put the vinegar in their water. They seem fine. But I think my rooster is starting to moult, and not in the best of spirits. BTW, the link to the article about chicken poop posted earlier is no longer working. They are on 1/2 Game Bird finisher with 30% protein and layena crumbles because they are close to that age and fresh berries for a treat, is that too much? I usually don't baby my pullets so much, but I thought Seramas were more fragile.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

First question...how to post.

If you are in a thread, reading posts, any reply will be posted to that thread.

The forum this thread is on is "Emergencies/Diseases/Injuries and Cures."

To get back to the root, you need to click on "Emergencies/Diseases/Injuries and Cures" if you want to post in that forum -or- click on "Forums" to take you to the main list of all forums and choose the forum type. In each forum you will see "Post New Thread" blue button on the top right of the page.

Forums are main discussion sections, threads are specific discussions within that discussion type.

Secondly, I just clicked on the Chicken Chick poo link and it is working fine. I am using Chrome, latest edition, so it may be what you are using to access it giving you troubles.

In regards to your specific poo question, fully feathered Seramas shouldn't need lighting. While they are smaller birds, they are still birds fully able to live in the outdoors. (Think of all the wild birds that do fine in winter).

Without seeing the poo, it is very had to say what might be wrong. Birds will poo thinner poo if they are too warm. There is also two different types of poo...the main, thick kind with white capping then the thin mustard yellow or orange kind that is cecal. That is normal.

Foamy yellow is not normal. Thin green is not normal.

It would help to post a photo of what you are seeing and put that in the Emergencies/Diseases thread.

Or, hopefully the Chicken Chick poo chart works. If not, I'll link another one that will hopefully get you into photos for comparisons.

As to the Corid and ACV, there should be nothing that negates either. Apple Cider Vinegar simply helps acidify the gut to make it less friendly for bacteria and protazoa (coccidia).

Corid is amprolium, a drug that inhibits B metabolization in small non-vertebrates, such as protozoa, so they literally starve to death.

Using both will not hinder either.

HTH
LofMc

 

[Lady of McCamley]

alternative poo chart
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0