zenstarling
Songster
I found this in the brooder this morning. my chicks are about 5 weeks old.
I have posted before asking this question but this time the redness seems more liquidy than the past times I now recognize as intestinal lining.
so I’ve been looking all morning and I cannot find another poop like this. I cleaned out the brooder, I’ve been spending time with the chicks in their run and watching them in the act of pooping — all normal solid brown turds. I scoured the whole run (as well as all the shavings in the brooder from overnight) and there is nothing else like that.
I’ve been sitting with them and everyone is active, engaged, curious, pecking and scratching, eating and drinking, flapping and darting around, chasing bugs, pecking at my raincoat zippers, etc etc. I’m home with kids full time and have taken great care to be here to refresh their water multiple times a day, clean the waterers daily, refresh and change the brooder bedding regularly, etc. the chicks spend full days outside and have been for weeks, with lots of exposure to the dirt and grass here, dustbathing, foraging.
I understand coccidiosis can hit chicks hard and unexpectedly, but I’m wondering if someone was infected, would there be more than one suspicious poop found over a few hours? along with off behavior?
thanks!