Small amount of dark red in poop - Coccidiosis?

[Elpolloloco88]

Hi everyone!

By way of introduction- I am a long time lurker but first time poster! My girls are nearly 2 years old and they are my babies, I hatched them from an incubator by myself. I am a complete and total helicopter mummy and am devoted to my 3 beautiful girls.

The issue at hand: When hanging with my girls today, I noted this poop (attached). It looks to have a small bit of dark red in it, perhaps blood? I noticed the same looking poop last Saturday, and again panicked that it was coccidiosis, so called my emergency vet but with a £50 call back fee I had to take measures into my own hands, as I’m only 24 years old and live by myself !

So I deep cleaned out their entire run and monitored their behaviour, they looked and acted completely normal and I hadn’t seen any more blood in their poop since.

However today I find this… should I be concerned? I will have no hesitation in taking the sample to the vet to be tested if it’s something to be concerned about however, as mentioned, I am broke so it would be great if that was avoidable!

As I said, their behaviour seems normal, but my helicopter mummy syndrome has inflated this situation to cause a great deal of worry, and I would be SO grateful for peoples opinions on whether I should truly be worried.

Thank you so much

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Personally that amount would not scare me if everyone is acting normal. Zooming in though I am curious do you feed them anything else besides their treats?

 

[Elpolloloco88]

Personally that amount would not scare me if everyone is acting normal. Zooming in though I am curious do you feed them anything else besides their treats?

That’s a relief - thank you! I do, I feed them a lot of random bits and bobs, but always after googling if it is safe for them to eat. This can include my own meal leftovers, again so long as there is absolutely nothing even remotely harmful in there!

 

[HollowOfWisps]

That’s a relief - thank you! I do, I feed them a lot of random bits and bobs, but always after googling if it is safe for them to eat. This can include my own meal leftovers, again so long as there is absolutely nothing even remotely harmful in there!

If you feed anything red that can also taint their poop and make sure you are not giving more than 10% of their diet in treats. When I zoomed it, it looks like what I call “treat poop” basically other foods change the texture of the poop compared to what poop looks like when they are mainly eating their feed.

 

[Elpolloloco88]

If you feed anything red that can also taint their poop and make sure you are not giving more than 10% of their diet in treats. When I zoomed it, it looks like what I call “treat poop” basically other foods change the texture of the poop compared to what poop looks like when they are mainly eating their feed.

That is a big relief thank you so much. I think I may be overdoing it with the treats so I will cut back a bit!

 

[Blue Raptor]

That is a big relief thank you so much. I think I may be overdoing it with the treats so I will cut back a bit!

I think Hollow is right. Also, welcome to BYC!!