Runny Red/Brown poop. any ideas?

[rosco]

all four laying hens are acting normal and no visual signs of abnormality. we've had them three weeks. they are about one year old on average. They are all laying one egg a day as is typical of their breeds (australorp, barred rock and EE).
The water bowl was freezing for several hours at a time, but i've fixed that with a heated waterbowl. The bedding is straw that has been kicked off roosts onto ground. we plan to lay a bedding of chips when a truck becomes available.

They sleep outside in a metal barn. three sleep together and one sleeps alone.

for 1.5 days, one of them is leaving red/brown poop around the yard.

i don't have a camera right now. i'll have it back soon though to post pictures.

While i'm waiting, is this any easy online diagnosis?

 

[tazcat70]

Do a search on here for the poop thread. It will give you all sorts of ideas.

Also more information on how they were kept before you got them would help too.

Good luck.

 

[Imp]

Could just be normal

Here's a link to the poop page

Imp

http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

 

[gritsar]

Sounds like ceceal poo to me. Check it out on the link to the poo page that Imp supplied.