Anyone know why I'd be getting a poopy egg? It's only this hen. I could understand the occasional poopy egg in the old set up as it was small and semi muddy but this one they've only been in a week and the nestboxes are perfectly clean. No other hen has this issue. Yet hers are not only a little poop but covered in it fairly consistently.
But the other weird thing is a bunch of them have poopy butts but yet no other eggs are dirty since being in the new coop.
I noticed maybe a few months ago some had white on their butts, like dried poop, and I eventually looked closer and discovered most of them had a lot more poop, like actual poop, stuck closer but not clogging the vent. I tried to wipe it off one but it was so much and dried on. They seem to have gotten a little better being able to actually dust bathe all day every day but I do still plan on giving them each an epsom salt bath and maybe a dose of oil or ACV or something. Forget the exact treatment plan I read, have it bookmarked.
ANYWAY.
I feel like awful chicken parent for leaving them like that but I have been so busy with school and taking 4 classes that I haven't had the time to give them all a bath. And since it was not totally blocking the vent, the eggs are clean (and they're still laying), and none are acting sick, I figured it can wait.
But now I am done after this week and should be able to give them the bath maybe this weekend.
But that is the other weird thing, they are all acting 100% normal. So it's VERY weird.
Although I'm only getting 4 eggs a day atm, not sure if that's normal? Out of 7.
I was thinking of worming them but don't want to do so unnecessarily or have to deal with the egg withdrawal period and throw good eggs away. But I will if necessary.
But it's just so frustrating because, like I said, they are all acting healthy and mostly laying so it makes it very hard to diagnose and treat!
I just want my girls to be happy and healthy and this is upsetting me. They have never in two and a half years been sick except maybe for leg mites which I treated and am going to treat again just to be sure. But they're never sick.
And now all of a sudden they get poopy bums and poopy eggs but yet act healthy..... a real mystery.
Please help.
But the other weird thing is a bunch of them have poopy butts but yet no other eggs are dirty since being in the new coop.
I noticed maybe a few months ago some had white on their butts, like dried poop, and I eventually looked closer and discovered most of them had a lot more poop, like actual poop, stuck closer but not clogging the vent. I tried to wipe it off one but it was so much and dried on. They seem to have gotten a little better being able to actually dust bathe all day every day but I do still plan on giving them each an epsom salt bath and maybe a dose of oil or ACV or something. Forget the exact treatment plan I read, have it bookmarked.
ANYWAY.
I feel like awful chicken parent for leaving them like that but I have been so busy with school and taking 4 classes that I haven't had the time to give them all a bath. And since it was not totally blocking the vent, the eggs are clean (and they're still laying), and none are acting sick, I figured it can wait.
But now I am done after this week and should be able to give them the bath maybe this weekend.
But that is the other weird thing, they are all acting 100% normal. So it's VERY weird.
Although I'm only getting 4 eggs a day atm, not sure if that's normal? Out of 7.
I was thinking of worming them but don't want to do so unnecessarily or have to deal with the egg withdrawal period and throw good eggs away. But I will if necessary.
But it's just so frustrating because, like I said, they are all acting healthy and mostly laying so it makes it very hard to diagnose and treat!
I just want my girls to be happy and healthy and this is upsetting me. They have never in two and a half years been sick except maybe for leg mites which I treated and am going to treat again just to be sure. But they're never sick.
And now all of a sudden they get poopy bums and poopy eggs but yet act healthy..... a real mystery.
Please help.
