Rooka_2
Songster
- Apr 18, 2021
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I'm not sure what to think of this, the last two days I've found tar like black poop in my chicken/duck room.
Here's the thing, I moved them from their outdoor pen to their new indoor pen last Wednesday. They've never been in this room, It's the old milking room in our 100 year old barn. I live in Canada and have more than a few Silkies, which are not cold hearty in our climate. This room is attached to my heated rooms so I thought it would be perfect for the winter.
There was a bit of rusty metal, but I cleaned it all up really well before I put them in and put a ton of straw down.
This black poop could have been something from before Wednesday, they have a massive outdoor pen and I very easily could have missed it.
I Google searched black bird poop and it says something about metal poisoning, now I'm freaking out.
The walls in their new room are plastic on the bottom half. But the barn outside does need a fresh coat of paint and I know for certain, the paint under the red we originally put was a led based paint.
None of my chickens or ducks appear to be sick at all.
I asked on my local facebook chicken group and a lady said that feeding them berries or black sunflower seeds can turn their poop black, but they have had neither of those things this week.
Please tell me I don't have dying bird.
Here's the thing, I moved them from their outdoor pen to their new indoor pen last Wednesday. They've never been in this room, It's the old milking room in our 100 year old barn. I live in Canada and have more than a few Silkies, which are not cold hearty in our climate. This room is attached to my heated rooms so I thought it would be perfect for the winter.
There was a bit of rusty metal, but I cleaned it all up really well before I put them in and put a ton of straw down.
This black poop could have been something from before Wednesday, they have a massive outdoor pen and I very easily could have missed it.
I Google searched black bird poop and it says something about metal poisoning, now I'm freaking out.
The walls in their new room are plastic on the bottom half. But the barn outside does need a fresh coat of paint and I know for certain, the paint under the red we originally put was a led based paint.
None of my chickens or ducks appear to be sick at all.
I asked on my local facebook chicken group and a lady said that feeding them berries or black sunflower seeds can turn their poop black, but they have had neither of those things this week.
Please tell me I don't have dying bird.