Rooster - Poopy Eggs connection?

[big mami]

After we got our roo and he was fertilizing the girls, I noticed many of our hens' vents were very poopy and they laid a lot of poopy eggs. That had never happened before. I never did anything about it (laziness, I admit). So our poor roo was killed by a bobcat last week and suddenly there are no more poopy eggs! The vents aren't perfect (I know I should help them out) but they might be looking better. Or it's my imagination.

Anyway, could that be the connection? The roo made them poopy? Anyone heard of this?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Probably not. I had noticed some of my bigger bottomed girls had poopy bottoms, and when I watched them go it seemed like the yuck couldn't clear all of the feathers. I also had hens with icky rear ends when they had intestinal worms. You really should clean them up, the poo can give them ammonia burns...
Nikki