Poop ID, Please....Well, maybe poop

[stargazingmommy]

I know I'm new to chickens but not totally new to birds...this Looks like what one of my cockatiels did when she had a calcium deficiency.

ok an edit...I was looking for a picture to compare to it and actually found this thread here

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=33825

 

[dawg53]

My first thought was coccidia. Can you take a sample to a vet and have them look at it under a microscope?

 

[Wynette]

I'm sure it's not cocci; it wouldn't be all quite round, and it wouldn't have the yellowish tinge that it does IMO.

Cyn, is there a way you could even partition off a small part of the coop & leave her there for a day? Like even just something as simple as chicken wire, or a large cardboard box that you can cut, to sort of give her a large corner for a day? Just trying to think of some options so you can watch her more closely.

 

[speckledhen]

I've followed her all over and she didn't poop.

She is hanging around the nests today, though. I just had to help my egg bound banty Cochin, Shadow, pass her rounder-than-normal egg and this splatter was right below her "princess roost" where she sleeps away from the others, but I can't assume it was her or that it was Tasha. Odd coincidence, though. I agree with you, Wynette, I just don't think it's cocci. I don't have any $$ to take her to a vet so that's why I'm trying to determine what this is. I can treat for cocci with no problem in that coop if that's what it is, but I really don't think so, either, Wynette. I've never had any birds with cocci over ten weeks old, either. I can put Tasha in the broody pen for a few hours, I guess, though I hate to do that since I just cleaned it yesterday for my broody. Why couldn't it have happened yesterday before I got it spic and span?

 

[kathyinmo]

Quote:
It does sorta look like that picture in post # 9 of that thread!

 

[speckledhen]

Honestly, I don't see that it looks much like that. The pic referenced doesn't have any of the round balls in it. I've gotten bloody eggs before and that's what the pic #9 looks like to me. In fact, one egg recently in another coop was full of blood, probably due to a burst blood vessel along the tract.

 

[Country4ever]

I haven't read all the replies, but here's a simple way of figuring out who it is. Can you just look around their vents?
I had a hen poop yellow urates for awhile and didn't figure out who until she was dead and I looked her over good and found yellow around her vent. (duh!).
I just thought I'd mention this, in case you hadn't thought of it.
After they've gone to roost is a good time to check their behinds out.
Also.....if you could take a pic of them roosting in the evening, and then see who was roosting where, compared to where the blood is in the morning.....it might help.
I hope you're not offended by my simple suggestions. I know you're a chicken expert.

 

[speckledhen]

Of course, I'm not offended! I appreciate the input, I really do. I am not an expert (who starts those rumors, anyway?) and there are things I still haven't seen- that's why I posted this. I've seen bloody eggs, had internal layers, sour crop, impacted crops egg binding, egg within and egg, and on and on, but this was a new one for me.


The roosting spot check is a great suggestion, but Tasha doesn't roost, more like perches on the edge of a nest. I've never seen anything in the morning clean up like this where she normally sits. Coincidentally, I did check her vent awhile ago when she was on the top roost bar looking out the window and it looks clean and normal.

 

[seminolewind]

Good idea to check under where they sleep. I caught some green poop that way.
Cyn, I guess there's no blood on anyone's vent area.
I would not rule out coccidiosis in an older bird-one of mine was 2 1/2. But I would think that they would be acting sick as well, right?
How long has this been going on?
Mine free range and one must have found some red berries, and hubby came in and said that he found some red poo. It was okay tho.

 

[PepsNick]

Update? Anything?

I was thinking that if that came out of a pullet/hen than it would have some marks on the vent, or the feathers below it? Especially on Delawares and their white feathers, huh? Often the pool rolls off those when they poop, correct? I think that you should check the vents of the suspects. Just an idea...



Cyn.... Hush... You are an expert! You don't have to deny it, it's okay.