Translucent jelly poo??

[klb25]

It looks like a soft shelled egg to me. Has she laid an egg?

They haven't. They're just 6 week old meat birds so I sure hope not anyway!

 

[klb25]

I can't help too much with the very, very strange excretion - but I will say this is a lot of access to food for a CC. Over the years we have found that any form of free choice isn't necessarily super bad for them, but very costly and unnecessary for you.

We feed twice a day, and I am not certain exactly how much, because we get the same amount of birds each year and use the same feeders. I want to say that it equates to one gallon size feeder/day per 18 birds. Granted, they act like they are starving 24/7 - but they aren't and you will finish with a lot less yellow fat and/or muscle deterioration in the breast + more $$ in your pocket.

Thank you so much for the advice. These are our first meat birds and I'd read to do the 12 on/12 off, but I'm glad to know from someone's actual experienc!

 

[klb25]

No, not at all. But there is no blood either. With the chickens being white id think there would be blood on the rear end if one of them as well.

I've butchered a lot of birds and usually the intestines are translucent like that, but the shape and texture and size looks just like one.

I wondered about intestine. I've checked several times and can't find a trace of blood on any of their rears. It's so bizarre.

 

[klb25]

Ok. So is it an intestine? To me it looks like some species of grub.

Oddly enough, that's what Google Lens said. (I was desperate!) It's so weird that the choices seem to be intestine or grub!

 

[Eggcessive]

I wonder if it is shed intestinal casing, possibly from coccidiosis.

 

[BastyPutt]

I wonder if it is shed intestinal casing, possibly from coccidiosis.

If it is an in fact an internal part of the chicken, this is most likely and maybe somehow it filled with fluid.

If this is the case and you start to see other symptoms - you may want to consider processing them now. You'd be able to treat coccidisis with corid, but there is a lot of debate as to whether or not you'd want to eat the meat after. However, it is perfectly fine to eat a chicken solely infected with coccidiosis.

6 weeks should give the you a decent yield.

 

[klb25]

If it is an in fact an internal part of the chicken, this is most likely and maybe somehow it filled with fluid.

If this is the case and you start to see other symptoms - you may want to consider processing them now. You'd be able to treat coccidisis with corid, but there is a lot of debate as to whether or not you'd want to eat the meat after. However, it is perfectly fine to eat a chicken solely infected with coccidiosis.

6 weeks should give the you a decent yield.

Thank you so much. I think we will go ahead and process them this weekend. I've checked on them twice today and still no signs of blood or anything. Hopefully that's a good sign. In any case, I think their time is coming to an end anyway.

 

[BastyPutt]

Thank you so much. I think we will go ahead and process them this weekend. I've checked on them twice today and still no signs of blood or anything. Hopefully that's a good sign. In any case, I think their time is coming to an end anyway.

Excellent idea and good luck on your first processing!

Happy to help if there is any questions regarding that.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I wonder if it is shed intestinal casing, possibly from coccidiosis.

This was my thought as well. Doesn't look like a cecal core, but perhaps some type of intestinal shedding.