Orangey foamy poop, slightly soft droppings

[Renee]

Hi all,

Quasimodo ( 1 year, i month old)has had slightly soft droppings for about two weeks now. Not soupy or runny, just sorta soft.

Today I found two orangey/mustard colored foamy poops, one beneath the roost and one in the run.

She looks fabulous, not acting funny.

Feed is layer pellets, vitamin supplements, free water, food, and oyster shell. Morning a tiny handful of scratch for three chickens. Occasional greens and free ranging in the yard for an hour or two.

I clean the coop and run daily.

Three hens, all bought from Ideal as chicks, I have never had chickens before. No lice, no mites.

They have never been wormed. There are no worms in the poop, her comb is bright red, she's not losing weight.

Any ideas?

 

[emilyweck]

Can you take a picture of it?

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

by cleaning the coop daily

what do you mean?
are they never left with old litter at all?
chickens need any moist litter removed but do need to acclimate to the old litter

also the things you feed them denote the color of the manure

how do you know which chickeen did the orange foamy manure?

 

[Renee]

Hi Emily and Glenda,

1. I cannot take a photo, my camera battery went dead yesterday (of course!). I'll try to borrow a camera and get a photo this afternoon.

2. There is no litter in my coop or run. One chicken (she died) ate too much of it and got an impacted crop so I removed it.

I scoop all droppings out of the coop in the morning when I let the girls out into their yard and scrub the floor with a detergent and water.

The run has sand in it, and I scoop the poop out every morning with a kitty-litter scooper.

They have a small dirt yard, and I scoop all of the droppings out every morning.

I know, I'm a clean freak. It's embarrassing.

3. I do not know for sure she is the one with the funny poop, but it was beneath her roosting spot. The other two look just as chipper- red combs and wattles, no weight loss, no worms in poop, no lice or mites.

They have had no treats for several days and are on the same organic layer pellets as usual.

Thank you to both of you for responding.

 

[emilyweck]

Did it look like either of these? These are from an earlier post that listed all different kinds. First one is worms, second one is ceacal (which is normal). Also, is there something blooming in the yard she may have gotten in to that could cause this change in color? Let me know what you think.


http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/Poo/Ceacal9.jpg
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/Poo/Ceacal3.jpg

 

[Renee]

Thanks for the photos, Emily!
It looked much more like the normal photo than the other (wow, now that's some foamy poop!) but not like the normal cecal poop I usually find.

I guess I am so "het up" about this because I have been reading all of the posts on worms, and I am nervous about never having wormed them, and I am also nervous about the lack of FDA approved chicken-specific wormers for egg-layers.

I'll still try to get a photo.

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

I personally think you are realling from anixiety and need to calm down
if the chickens need wormed try and go to the feed store and get some peperzine or wazine
it is a chemical BUT IMPORTANTLY
will go to the blood stream of the chickens and kill the worm larvea and should kill the adult worms in the gut

now if you want to use DE in the feed I would do so
it will knick the adult worms and then they dehydrate and dry up and go to the protein content of the birds body

thus you will be okay
as you clean the chicken pen and house the chickens surely don't become immuned to any thing else
you cam email me PM for more help