Poopy butt

[chanteclerflock]

I have a small flock (16 hens), mostly chantecler with a few sex links. One of the chanteclers (about 14 mos old) has had a really poopy butt lately. She has lost a lot of weight, is lethargic, and has lost most of her appetite. She still eats a little, and drinks some, but not much. She has her tail down all the time also. I tried giving her some yogurt, but she had no interest (but boy did her sisters love it when I gave them the rest. Every time I have seen her trying to poo, she spends a long time and all that comes out is some thin white liquid.

I have looked pretty hard for worms in the droppings, but haven't found any. I inspected her and a few of the others for mites or something like that, but didn't see anything that I thought would be that. I did give her a bath and clipped some feathers back there which cleaned her up pretty good, but it is just getting bad again.

I have never dusted or wormed any of the flock, some of whom are 2 years old. I do dust the coop with DE every two weeks, and keep it pretty clean.

Any thoughts on what might be the problem? Whatever it is I need to get it under control before it starts to spread to the rest of the flock. Thanks

 

[Gallusfarm]

Hey sorry about your bird. It seems like you've done right with cleaning her up. Does she have any type of respiratory symptoms? If you smell her face is there a foul odor? Are her eyes clear? The reason I ask is because white runny stools is a symptom of coryza. Have you removed her from the rest of the flock? Please do if you can - keep her in a dog crate or something and monitor her - maybe try feeding her some scrambled egg as well. Did you get all of the flock at the same time? Note - it may be nothing and she may me fine - just keep an eye on her and the rest of the flock-can also search on here for coryza - I don't think it's that common but it's better to be on the safe side.


We had a sick bird that had runny white poo and stopped eating/drinking - but he also had eye symptoms as well. So far the rest of the flock has been fine- we never really found out what it was, but we are monitoring the birds and have not brought in any new birds....

Hopefully someone else will chime in with information for you. Good luck.