Not normal poo

[Lorije1]

Sorry... I have to ask

At least 1 of my approx 3 week old chicks has incredibly stinky poo! I don't mean it smells if I don't clean the brooder... I mean when you open the door it takes your breath away!!

. There is loose brown poo, sometimes with just a bit of normal.
I feed Purina Medicated Start and Grow - that is what they have been on the whole time I have had them. Each day they split (between 5 of them) about 1/4 of a boiled egg or 2-3 blackberries. My other chicks (5 chicks between 5-6 wks and 4 at about 2 weeks) get teh same feed, treats and water source.


Please!! Help Save our air!!!!


ETA - ages
ETA again - changing title to see if someone will help me

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Are you offering the chicks grit? They should have grit since you are feeding things other than chick starter (berries/treats).

Is the poo always the same - not the smell - but the form - runny?, solid? or?


Sometimes like people their systems are different from one another - sorry I am not very helpful.

 

[Lorije1]

You are totally helpful - because you replied

There are 5 in the box where the problem is... so I am not sure if it is one chick all of the time or everybody... but there is normal poo sometimes. They have access to grit and they also have a little cardboard box bottom of dirt.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Well, maybe it is the medicated feed - upsets one of their systems? I do not feed medicated - I feed flock raiser, but do notice every once in a while I will get a stinky batch of chicks for a bit. Usually after I feed cabbage to the chicks

 

[elmo]

Relax, that's just a cecal poop. One out of every 10 or so will be like this.

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

The first time I encountered cecal poop with our first chick, I was horrified. The stink was (as you now know) amazing, and it fizzed after it came out! Thank goodness for BYC.

 

[Lorije1]

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WOW.... so it is gonna fog up the bathroom (appropriate) they are in for 3 more weeks?

hahaha (until they can go outside)

Thanks for the answer!

 

[elmo]

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Yup. Good thing you have them in the bathroom, eh?

By the way, just in case you might have one of those scented candles in the bathroom, I wouldn't light it with the chicks in there. Sometimes the ingredients they put in those candles can be toxic to birds' efficient respiratory systems.

 

[Lorije1]

ok... good to know. I live in a mobile home so I don't light candles of any sort, but I might have been convinced to risk the fire hazard to escape the stench! lol