one chick with weird poop (sorry, gross question)

I have no idea but I am wondering about the water dish thing now too. I only just rinse mine out two to three times a day. my chicks are 15 days old now.

 

It's really amazing that with the 16 chickens I have, and they all eat the same stuff, that there are so many different poops from them!! I've seen what you have described, and wait till you get the black goopy one.... anyway, I wouldn't worry. not unless you know it's diarrhea.
When they were chicks, I did sterilize their waterers once a day. Just for a few weeks. Heck, the chickens "in the wild" drink from where ever. Some times us new mommies worry too much. You'll find lots of opinions on the site, but do what you feel is right. If the chicks are pooping in their waterers, then you'll need to sterilize more often. Just use common sense.

 

My wife will feed ours some steamed rice to firm up the stools if they are runny.

 

hi!

my little girls (1 ee, 2 red stars, 1 rir) will be 2 weeks old on monday, and i've been seeing the same thing - and from my ee! after lots of searching here (some good threads on "watery poop"), i've decided that the main thing that watery poop seems to be a symptom of is coccidia and since i feed medicated feed i don't think that's it... i've decided to MAKE myself relax and go as much by her behavior (eating drinking pooping sleeping eating eating flying peeping eating pooping pooping pooping peeping sleeping - all with gusto!!!) as anything else. i do have some vitamin/electrolyte/probiotic powder for their water, so i'm not too worried about her getting dehydrated. do you have something like that?

as long as she's feeling okay, my main worry now is when she poops on me!!! (those toothpaste-like ones just pop out and fall off, NOT so with the watery poops!)

i'm gonna keep my eye on your thread now to see what everyone has to say - good luck with your little girl! my little ee is my favorite already!!!

 

Mine do the black goopy poo... THAT'S something to look forward to.

 

My husband always says "do you know what that white stuff on the chicken poop is?" "Chicken poop" ha ha ha ha Always gets a rise out of the kids.

 

I know this is a pretty old post, but I was looking for some info regarding the black goopy/tar-like droppings, and noticed that some of the responses here make out like that's normal? I am pretty sure that only one of my chickens, around 9-10 weeks old has this, and the others all have very "nice" greenish and white solid droppings. I'm also pretty sure that now one of my ducks is having some of this. Is this a sign of coccidiosis? or something normal that comes and goes? and just a note, its seems like I run back and forth with diarrhea and such from my BR Cockerel and SLW Cockerel, but the two RIR hens seem to just keep on ticking with no problems that I can find whatsoever. I've heard that RIR's are especially hardy and tough, or maybe I've just been lucky?

 

I don' t know if this will help, but my chicks pooped all sorts of wierd looking stuff and have been fine so far...