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The white stuff looks like urates to me, probably from her being dehydrated. The actual poop looks like cecal poop.

Cecal vs regular poop.
I think this explains the ceca pretty well:
"by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock

For those of us who have never seen the inside of a chicken, it turns out that a chicken’s anatomy is pretty darn interesting. I recently took a class where poultry anatomy was explained and although there are many interesting bits throughout a chicken’s digestive and reproductive systems, today I am going to concentrate on two tiny sacs that help with digestion.

Located at the at the ileo-colic junction (the end of the small intestine) and before the beginning of the large intestines are the cecal pouches. These little pouches or sacs are analogous to the cecum in mammals except that with chickens, there are two. (Makes sense, chickens proportionally eat a lot more fibrous material that needs to be broken down than mammals do.)"

So how do these sacs help chickens with their digestion? The main purpose of cecal pouches is to collect fibrous material from the small intestines. While this material is being held, the cecal reabsorbs as much water as possible, while at the same time fermenting and breaking down the coarse material that the chicken has eaten (twigs, fibrous materials.)

The cecal pouches then expel and empty that fermented, partially-dehydrated mess two to three times each day.

Here’s the tricky part and what you really need to know about cecal pouches. The droppings from the cecal appear much different than the normal intestinal poultry droppings. A regular normal chicken dropping is firm, green to brown in color, and had a bit of white urate deposit.

A normal cecal dropping, on the other hand, is a brown, soft, moist dropping with a strong odor. A dropping that sometimes causes some chicken owners alarm as they mistakenly think it is an indication of diarrhea and illness.

Thick, sticky, brown chicken droppings will occur on a daily basis. It’s important to identify these and recognize that they are normal dropping as a result of chicken’s having those cecal pouches."
 
Ok good I hope it’s just urates as well! Poop number #5! Man the molasses flush really worked! I’m shocked!!
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@aart Yeah! all from one molasses flush! And she is drinking very well on her own but not eating to great, hopefully now that she's not so impacted she will start eating!

@azygous Fingers crossed if there is an infection the baytril will kick it in the but!! She's been through so much now! She has to pull through!

@casportpony Im going to go ahead and give her the baytril now, I just wanted to double check that .2ml twice a day is the correct dose for to 50mg/ml?

:hugs:hugs
 
This is the most recent poop it had quite a bit of brown liquid (before the puppy pad soaked it up) which I’m assuming is the end of her impaction and the molasses is now coming out?
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