wish someone would come up with a"tester" to tell runny poo causes

[casportpony]

Did you ever do like someone suggested on another thread and buy new feed, like a brand name one? I suggest you buy a fresh bag of Purina or Nutrena lay crumbles and feeds that. Please do this before you give more antibiotics.

-Kathy

 

[MeepBeep]

Did you ever do like someone suggested on another thread and buy new feed, like a brand name one? I suggest you buy a fresh bag of Purina or Nutrena lay crumbles and feeds that. Please do this before you give more antibiotics.

I'll second that advice, as feed and even treats can make all the difference and easily be the cause of runny poop especially if it's a cheap or inferior feed...

 

[ladyearth]

PLEASE Yall the feed WAS NOT OLD ......JUST THE BAG OF MILO...
I bought RELUCTANTLY",reluctantly "Natures best" organic layer feed. and the crumbles Starter, too cause it has 18 percent protein.
I called company to see if the lot number on the bag at TSC was "fresh".

 

[MrsBrooke]

I'm curious if you are looking for a solution or just want us to listen to your troubles?

So far, everything we've suggested, I feel, has been countered with a complaint about how much this costs, how much time you have to spend, how no vet in the world will help you, and how UNHAPPY these chickens are making you...

Either take responsibility for what you've got and care for your birds properly, let someone adopt them who will, or cull your birds.

Have you reached out to your local university yet? Or have you already given up on that, convinced that you're on your own?

I hate to see you so unhappy.

MrsB

 

[casportpony]

PLEASE Yall the feed WAS NOT OLD ......JUST THE BAG OF MILO...
  I bought RELUCTANTLY",reluctantly "Natures best" organic layer feed.  and the crumbles Starter, too cause it has 18 percent protein.
    I called company to see if the lot number on the bag at TSC was "fresh".   

Do me a favor, try a bag of regular lay crumbles. Feed nothing else, Purina or Nutrena crumble and plain water. Not sure why you insist on feeding "organic" when you are so willing to give antibiotics. Sorry, it just confuses me a little.

-Kathy

 

[KYTinpusher]

I am sorry you are having trouble with your chickens.

Have you tried yogurt, or better yet kefir? Or other probiotics? If you keep giving antibiotics you are going to kill off all the good flora in the digestive tract, which causes havoc with digestion - i.e. runny poop or other symptoms. As others has said, random administration of antibiotics can do more harm than good. I only use them as a very last resort.

I am not sure where you are in KY, but if you want to come up to the Sparta area I could share some kefir starter with you. Kefir is similar to yogurt, but easier to make and contains both beneficial bacteria and beneficial yeasts, usually 40 - 60 different strains (even an very good yogurt usually contains only 4-5). If I am too far, you can PM me your address and PayPal me the postage and I will send you the instructions and starter.

 

[MeepBeep]

Have you tried yogurt

Although they will get probiotics from yogurt and that is a good thing, the remaining lactose in the yogurt will also give poultry the runs as they have no means to process it... Not that that is a bad thing, but if one is overly concerned about runny poop already a daily regiment of yogurt could exasperate the runny poo even further...

 

[KYTinpusher]

Although they will get probiotics from yogurt and that is a good thing, the remaining lactose in the yogurt will also give poultry the runs as they have no means to process it... Not that that is a bad thing, but if one is overly concerned about runny poop already a daily regiment of yogurt could exasperate the runny poo even further...

One of the reasons that I prefer kefir. While both yogurt and kefir contain bacterias that aid in the digestion of lactose, kefir has more. Kefir is actually suggested to help with lactose intolerance, especially if made with raw milk.

 

[ladyearth]

I'm curious if you are looking for a solution or just want us to listen to your troubles?

So far, everything we've suggested, I feel, has been countered with a complaint about how much this costs, how much time you have to spend, how no vet in the world will help you, and how UNHAPPY these chickens are making you...

Either take responsibility for what you've got and care for your birds properly, let someone adopt them who will, or cull your birds.

Have you reached out to your local university yet? Or have you already given up on that, convinced that you're on your own?

I hate to see you so unhappy.

MrsB

I told yall I called the two collages .... they wont lab your specimens YOU Have to go thru a vet. If the blankety blanks would just let me bring in samples that would be acceptable to me the state labs
Plus yall think someone would want chickens that are sick? or dont lay? esp if they already have flock of their own??? seriously I wouldnt want someone to do that to me.
yes I am looking for a solution>...Yeah Hubby and I are overwhelmed with what I thought would be simple....Its taking over our lives.
I wish we would never even moved to this place and defintely never got us into CHICKEN WORLD...Like last nite trying to get broken soft shell out of LIL SIs. She has runny and WATERY poo. prob not only busted egg but infection. since poo is yellowish with greens bits, also wheezing for a long time.
yes we have no life...the stress is killing us
.Hubby asked a guy not to far from here, if he would take them. He hemmed hall around. we wanted to check out his place. But bad weather that day. He didnt want helicopter parents either. He really also didnt want my non layers or prob Goldie with missing butt feathers...I never met the guy. But he seemed an"A" over the phone. ...so its not so easy to just give them up to anyone.
Like I mentioned I gave my others to a person later found out was... NO COOP ... 3 large dogs etc., chicken poo in pile outside their door stoop.... I am scared to even call. as those three chickens are prob long since dead


I tried to get her againso Hubby can check...
But I am not going to drive to whatever a vet maybe that know what he is doing. I dont even go that far for my own care

 

[ladyearth]

Do me a favor, try a bag of regular lay crumbles. Feed nothing else, Purina or Nutrena crumble and plain water. Not sure why you insist on feeding "organic" when you are so willing to give antibiotics. Sorry, it just confuses me a little.

-Kathy

no way. I eat lots of organic so mostly do mostly my chickens. I am willing to pay the differences. Lots on here this forum mix their own feed...
Why are you pushing "P" big "P" or "N"???? I guess cause they are sponsers...
I am willing to give antiobiotics or wormers cause trying vitaminsB< vit E, yogurt, probiotics, ACV did not help. even plain boiled rainwater is not helping the 3 or so... Nor just plain feed w nothing else helps those two...now.. I was hoping even some of the many grasses and weeds they eat on their own would help
I am out in the 1/2 acre several times a day esp the areas close to coops and gates picking up poo.
Unfortunately if its worms again the single "Safeguard for goats"didnt help. previously the Valzaben didnt help BG and LIL sis
they are foragers and who knows how many worms etc they eat on their own or find puddles during our very very very wet fall and winter and early Spring...