Peanut butter color poop?

[Mowglimommychick]

Should I be concerned about this? I have no idea which bird is responsible.

 

[Saaniya]

Should I be concerned about this? I have no idea which bird is responsible.

Looks like late stages of worms
Any yellow or brown signals for worms

Have you deworm your chickens

Is it fowl smelly

 

[Mowglimommychick]

Looks like late stages of worms
Any yellow or brown signals for worms

Have you deworm your chickens

Is it fowl smelly

I have not dewormed in over a year. Right now I have a cold and can't smell a thing lol. I can give a dewormer a try.

 

[Saaniya]

I have not dewormed in over a year. Right now I have a cold and can't smell a thing lol. I can give a dewormer a try.

Oh it's OK it doesn't looks like Cecal Poop

Deworming never hurt a chicken
I would deworm the bird with Albendazole , Valbazen and take a look into improvement how much weigh she is in current

 

[Saaniya]

Cecal Poop is usually very dark like melted Chocolate and there's not this much quantity of cecal poo

So I recommend deworm
But wait what other suggest
@Wyorp Rock
@Eggcessive

 

[Eggcessive]

What are you feeding your chickens, and have they eaten anything unusual the last day or two? What is your location? Do you ever take samples of droppings in to your vet to test for worms and coccidia? I agree those droppings are very ususual. Droppings can change from one time to the next, so it would be good to find out who is doing this, and see if it is more than once. Getting out to check before they come off the roost would be one way to check. How are the chickens acting?

 

[Eggcessive]

Cecal poops can be different colors and are ruuny and shiney. Poops can reflect what they have been eating, and how much they drink. I tend to look more at my chickens’ behavior rather than at their poops, but I do worm them every year with Valbazen or WormOut Gel. SafeGuard is also good to use. If any look particularly droopy or sickly, then you can also give a round of amprollium (Corid, Coxoid) for 5 days in the water.

 

[Mowglimommychick]

What are you feeding your chickens, and have they eaten anything unusual the last day or two? What is your location? Do you ever take samples of droppings in to your vet to test for worms and coccidia? I agree those droppings are very ususual. Droppings can change from one time to the next, so it would be good to find out who is doing this, and see if it is more than once. Getting out to check before they come off the roost would be one way to check. How are the chickens acting?

Well...the plot thickens. We noticed this evening that two of our hens have one eye closed and the other eye looking bubbly and some yellowish discharge from the nose. Great. I have given each of those hens oral Tylan 50 and put Denagard in the waterers to treat everyone. How long should I continue the Tylan and Denegard? Is this respiratory thing the likely culprit for the poop? I guess I can follow up with a dewormer in a week or so after this is hopefully gone to be sure.

As far as feed question - they eat Purina Flockraiser bc we have ducks too. We give scratch grains and then lettuce and other produce scraps. Nothing unusual I can think of.

 

[Eggcessive]

Respiratory infections can cause diarrhea, but I still don’t know if the stools you are seeing are connected. Tylan can be given for 3-5 days. I have not used Denagard, but they treat the same things—MG. I would get some of the suspect droppings checked locally by a vet for coccidiosis and worms.

 

[Mowglimommychick]

My flock is getting sick, one or two per day.
First, everyone starts sneezing, then swelling usually in one eye.
It progresses to nasal discharge -if I swab with a qtip, I get thick clearish or orangish mucus.
They sound congested.
And while they all have the one-eyed swelling, a couple of the hens end up with swelling on both sides, along with swollen wattles and throat. So swollen they look like they could pop.
There is yellowish / greenish diarrhea in the coop- some but not all have this. I do think the weird peanut butter poo was the beginning, because I figured out which birds did it and they did get sick.
One hen is gasping (I'm not sure if some meds I gave to her went down the wrong way or if this is illness related)

I have Denegard in the water. I have vitamins in the water. I have been giving Tylan 50 orally 3xs a day for 3 days. I clean nostrils and put VetRx on. I mist them in the face with diluted Oxine spray. There was some improvement in the eye swelling and nasal congestion but it seemed to stall without further progress.

At first I was just treating the sick ones, but then I started giving it to everyone to hopefully prevent the others from getting it.

I have looked at multiple symptom checker sites, very carefully, and I still don't know what the heck I'm dealing with - a single thing, comorbid things, bacterial, viral - too many things look the same! Nobody has a terrible smell, but it seems that that is not necessary a requirement of Coryza. It was very cold and wet and then very warm here recently, and that's when all this hit. The coop suddenly had an ammonia spike, so I cleaned with Oxine, removed anything damp, put in fresh shavings. I did do the big-time no no of buying 2 five-month-old birds from someone. I did bring them in my house and away from my flock at first, and I did discover that they were sick- they had some nasal discharge and sneezing. I had treated them with Tylan, and they recovered nicely. After 10 days, I introduced them into my coop. I am fairly certain that this was my root cause, but I don't know why my birds seem SO much sicker!

1. Do I just give up on the antibiotics if no progress is noted in after tomorrow? Or is there something else I should be trying (without throwing every med available at them blindly)?

2. Has this just become survival of the fittest? If one dies, does anyone know how I can find out what this illness was in Virginia? Without losing control of my flock. I don't want someone to sweep in and kill all my birds. I know there are many ethical/medical considerations here, but many of my birds are pets specifically named by each of our kids as "their birds". We have ducks and 25 chickens including standard breeds and silkies and polish. I love the last two breeds so much! I am so so sad.

@Wyorp Rock
@Eggcessive