Poop Experts, Please!

[Shortperson2002]

Thanks, thats good to know! No Offense at all.

Someone shared this with me earlier today in another fourm I found and a lot of people seemed to "like" the poo page.

 

[Nambroth]

No offense intended, but that chart is wrong. Some of the "normal" poops are not normal.

-Kathy

Kathy, I'd love to hear your insight on the 'poop chart'!

 

[seminolewind]

I have always judged illness by 2 symptoms. My chickens are all over the yard eating a variety of stuff, and drink more water or less depending on the weather. So aside from blood or active worms or something frightening being in the poop, I would need another symptom to go on.Seems like all their poop is different from eachother all day, and the only time all their poop resembles eachother's and looks kindof textbook is the poop under the roost.

 

[casportpony]

No offense intended, but that chart is wrong. Some of the "normal" poops are not normal.


-Kathy

Kathy, I'd love to hear your insight on the 'poop chart'!

There were three peachicks and one turkey hen at the feedstore, all had poop that looked like one of the cecal poops that's listed as "normal", the three chicks died, so I stole their bodies (long story) and sent them to UC Davis. Necropsies on them found severe coccidiosis and visceral gout. The turkey I brought home and treated for blackhead and she recovered.

Then there are the intestinal lining ones... I can see the occasional one being normal, but if I see more than one it usually means coccidiosis, infection or parasites.

Of course color can vary, heck, you ever seen poop after they've eaten cat food, lol? Other thing can affect their poop, too, like water intake, temperature, stress, etc, but the majority of it should look the same, IMO.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

It was poop like this:

According to one of my avian vets, foamy poop is a sign of a protozoa, which was the case in the feedstore birds. I can't say for sure that the turkey did have blackhead, just that she started to improve after two days of metronidazole and went from 4kg to 6kg in a very short time.

-Kathy

 

[Nambroth]

Thanks Kathy! I was wondering about those light colored, overly foamy poop photos. Of all the 'normal poos', those are the only ones that I have never seen in my chickens. I have seen intestinal lining less than 5 times in 3 years, and only tiny amounts when I do. I'm glad to hear your insight!

 

[Juley]

Mine looks like that after they have been hitting the nightcrawlers hard. As someone else on thread stated, it just looks high nitrogen/protein.

 

[chiknhurder]

Mine looks like that after they have been hitting the nightcrawlers hard. As someone else on thread stated, it just looks high nitrogen/protein.

Stop hitting the night crawlers so hard, Juley!

 

[Juley]

There's always one wise acre in the bunch!;-)

 

[casportpony]

If any of you are concerned about poop color, just put your bird in a crate and give it nothing but crumbles and water and the poop color should return to normal in no more than 24 hours.

-Kathy