Poop Police Please - PICTURE @ #5

[sonew123]

IMO-it looks like normal poop-they do the watery poop from time to time

 

[aveca]

My chickens did this shortly befor they started laying eggs I had always hought it was related somehow to early egg formation immature then it cleared up and all has been normal since.

 

[teach1rusl]

AHHHH!! I hate trying to look at those poop pages!!! I wish some folks experienced with worms in chickens would chime in here, because her poop does look a bit like one of those photos of caecal worm style poop. I'd still give it a few days though if she seems normal otherwise...

ETA: Oops...lol...they did. I'm glad more knowledgeable opinions are coming in...

 

[suebee]

I see poops like this all the time. My chickens are all healthy and happy. Don't worry, sometimes you'll get different poops but as long as you're worming once or twice a year, they're fine. Unless you see blood, I wouldn't panic. Tomorrow you'll probably see normal ones.

It's just a crap shoot sometimes.

 

[nursemeh]

so sad about the one that are the screw though!

 

[greenbeandreams]

Thank you everyone for the feedback.

Mary - the screw one really broke my heart. A lesson for all of those newbies building coops to pick up everything!

teach- thanks for all the handholding.

 

[Country4ever]

I agree with aveca..........my girls always get diarrhea when their egg-laying equipment starts gearing up. I also had some weird yellow little ball of something come out with one of my hen's poop yesterday.
I think people tend to over-worm their chickens. I'm wondering if the deworming has messed up your hen's good flora. Just keep up with the plain yogurt and even add some powdered probiotics.
Sorry about your other hen. Where was the screw lodged, and what were her symptoms?

 

[greenbeandreams]

Thanks for that. It hadn't occurred to me that eggs might be anywhere in the near future but the BR is 14 weeks old and I will say that her face is looking mighty red these days so maybe it isn't a couple months off as I had assumed.

The screw was in her abdomen. It had been there for several weeks before I took her into the vet. I kept thinking she had mites or lice or worms or cocci or anything. I was driving myself crazy watching her all the time. The symptoms were small - just that she was always our strongest biggest chick and over time she became the smallest one. She ate and drank like crazy but didn't gain weight. She still kept up with the other chickens but seemed to go off on her own when they free ranged (there were only 2 others left at the time). Also, she looked mangy. I mostly suspected worms based on those symptoms. I took her into the vet and immediately the vet felt the screw.

So sad. She was my four year old's chick and he picked her out so carefully. Was always so proud of her!

 

[Country4ever]

What part of her digestive tract was the screw in? Did the vet venture a guess? I don't think you meant it was in her abdominal cavity....or did it puncture her digestive tract and end up there? Maybe stuck in her gizzard or proventriculus?
Sorry for the questions.........just trying to add to my knowledge base for problems I might run into in the future!
I always worry about my girls swallowing something they shouldn't. You think they'd know better! Mine are in a big run. If I do any work in there, I have one of those rolling magnets and I go over the run with that afterwards.

 

[darkfur]

that poo looks within the normal range to me
they seem to do different ones depending on what time of day they are laying in my experience
if you want to firm things up ACV won't do any harm