Weak Chick (doing better - update page 2)

[briana1975]

I am so glad to hear this I have a small little Barred Rock doing all the same things. Very small. I am going to grind up some food right now!

 

[JennsPeeps]

BTW, for those wondering about the white "poo" that's actually supposed to be there. Birds don't have urinary tracts so they excrete their "urine" as a thick paste along with the fecal matter.

From http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/birddigestion.html

Why are bird feces white? Unlike mammals, birds don't urinate. Their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from the bloodstream, but instead of excreting it as urea dissolved in urine as we do, they excrete it in the form of uric acid. Uric acid has a very low solubility in water, so it emerges as a white paste. This material, as well as the output of the intestines, emerges from the bird's cloaca.​

 

[NellaBean]

Yes, my theory on the white poop is that he was drinking normally but not eating so that is why there was nothing but white coming out that one day. I googled "white poop" and "white diarrhea" and came up with these horrible chicken diseases and was freaking out! But as soon as he stared eating (the ground up food) he started having brown with his white.

Yesterday he had a perfect nice solid poop right as I was looking in there.

I was so proud