They poop soooo much!

[nerfy]

Yes they do, and the dark "greasers" are the worst for smell and clean up.

 

[JennsPeeps]

Here's the thread, back from Sept...

There are a couple different types of chicken poo:

1. normal/typical - it's firm, brown with white urea (bird "pee") on it, and looks like it was excreted through a round nozzle

2. cecal - stinky, stinky, stinky! This is runny and you will know it when you see it. OMG it stinks. It comes from a loop in their intestines. Did I mention it smells bad? It's normal, too. Happens roughly every 5-6 poops.

3. bright green - indicates bird is not eating enough and dropping is green due to bile not being sufficiently diluted by excrement

4. diarhea - different from cecal because of frequency

5. bloody - indicates serious problem, potentially cocci

6. watery - indication of too many treats with high moisture content. My girls get this when they eat too many grapes.​

 

[cointoss]

Many chick feeds contain arsenic and other "medicinal" compounds, which force the chicken bowels to evacuate more than they have to, and with more mess, too. When I switched my chicks to an all natural cracked corn and field pea diet, with a little dandelion, nettle and alfalfa mixed in for added vitamins, they stopped splorting within 48 hours. It was amazing. Ou chickens now eat primarily cracked corn with a some herbs and table scraps, plus whatever they free range, and again: little to no splort anywhere in the yard or coop. The poop they have is well formed and unobjectionable in smell. So, you may want to blame the feed and not the chicks...

 

[Ladyhawke1]

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Thank you , thank you , thank you.

You are what you eat.

My chicks have been on non-medicated orgainic feed since I got them. NO SMELL and nice round little poops that just roll down hill.

 

[fowlgirl]

wow,you people are REALLY close to your chickens. I have a Turken that has decided to come to my window and scream to wake me up in the morn at 7 sharp everyday,and she tries to get in the house and has become attached to my dog. Im guess ing this is what you would call a LAP chicken. I didnt encourage her. It is cute. Except the morning screaming. A roo she is not.

 

[chookchick]

I didn't know that you could hear the little ones squirt so loud until they get a few days old. I wish I had that on videotape!

 

[debilorrah]

I guess I am feeding mine the right stuff, my chicks never squirted and my girls just plop poop down, rarely liquidy....

 

[Gonzo the Great]

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Every rose has its thorns...

 

[cointoss]

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Ha ha ha -- yeah. My girls try to follow me in the house all the time. Of course -- that's in winter. In the summer we leave the back door wide open a lot, and they never went in -- but we had a rooster then for them to follow around. Now I seem to be their rooster-love! We'll see what happens this summer, I guess...I usually take up the rug in the sun room by the back door in the spring and summer, so at least that won't be a problem, lol.

 

[mrsgibber]

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Well that just gave me a chuckle!