Still having green poops...

moonnippie

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Apr 24, 2014
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Hello, I posted a week ago about my 2 yr old EE having green watery stools. We tested for parasites and decided to deworm her and 3 other ladies as we thought we saw tapeworm ova on a fecal float. So she came inside and her bum has cleaned up and is now fluffy when I check her. So far we have done the following:
Droncit (praziquantel)@ 2mg/kg orally
Fenbendazol @2mg/kg orally
Both are being repeated on day 10.

Vitamin supplement in the water for 6 days
Apple cider vinegar in water (1tbsp)
Added extra oyster shells to their organic layer ration

She stayed indoor for 4 days until she had a number of normal looking poops along with the weird green ones, but I am still seeing green ones outside. The other 3 hens do not appear to be affected in any way. She is still acting completely normal and is scratching, pecking around in their fenced paddock area off their run enclosure. She will sometimes have a watery green poop then a few moments later do a bum wiggle and have a small shiney brown poop with no urate. (Cecal?)
We are saving their eggs up and cooking and feeding them back every few days since we can't eat them till 2 wks past the last deworming dose. I often add a bit of plain kefir to this for the probiotics.

I'm really stumped here. I can't tell how much layer ration she's eating as they all share a feeder, but she definitely is eating the egg mash when I take it out and I've seen her looking for old scratch in the thawing mud.
Help? Is it possible her liver is going?
 
I would try giving her a teaspoonful of plain yogurt daily for probiotics, plus give her a little mash of water plus her usual feed mixed, and only given to her twice a day. You can confine her to a dog crate or bring her to a separate area to feed that.

Usually green droppings mean they are not eating enough food. The worm medicine could have affected her appetite. Check her crop to make sure that it is not full and puffy, but is emptying overnight.
 
Here's a photo of her poop she did when I brought her in for a weigh in and mash with kefir
She's up 500grams from a week ago which seems like a lot to me unless the tapes (if she actually had them) were really playing havoc on her.

She ate half the mash I made and I'm fairly certain I feel food in her crop but it's soft and pliable. Her abdomen however feels a bit 'inflated' to me still. She bowed forward and put her tail up when I palpated her.

Thoughts?
 

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