Yellow runny chicken poop, 2 months or so..

[Al Capon]

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In case anybody else has any thoughts..

 

[FarmerGirl101]

Maybe put your symptoms on this site http://www.poultrydvm.com/views/symptoms.php as you might be able to find the cuase

 

[Eggcessive]

That is interesting about the cherry pits being in there so long. Could some have fallen on the ground and the pits were in the ground where she could still find some more recently? I treated a hen a few months ago for a crop impaction, but she later died after 6 weeks of no improvement. I tried everything, and I could empty her crop 10 days after she had grabbed some scratch grains, and they would still be there. When I did the necropsy on her, her crop and gizzard were impacted. She always had grit available, and her normal diet was layer feed. She looked to have some sort of reproductive problem that may have caused the problem.

 

[Al Capon]

That is interesting about the cherry pits being in there so long. Could some have fallen on the ground and the pits were in the ground where she could still find some more recently? I treated a hen a few months ago for a crop impaction, but she later died after 6 weeks of no improvement. I tried everything, and I could empty her crop 10 days after she had grabbed some scratch grains, and they would still be there. When I did the necropsy on her, her crop and gizzard were impacted. She always had grit available, and her normal diet was layer feed. She looked to have some sort of reproductive problem that may have caused the problem.

I guess it's possible for 1 or 2, but I don't think for half a dozen. I inspect their poop in the mornings, and none of the other 8 chickens have passed any pits for months, and I just don't think there's a stash of pits out there she stumbled upon.

Her crop feels normal thru the day. It goes up and then goes down. Gave her a couple grape halves this morning when feeding her medicine, and I could feel them in there but nothing out of the ordinary.

I'm wondering if she had a gizzard full of pits that wasn't functioning properly. That might explain the watery poop and the seemingly barely digest food pellets. But that doesn't explain the yellow in the poop, I can't for the life of me figure out what that one is.

I'll finish off the course of Metronidazole and I've got some Fish Mox that I might try a round of, but outside of that, I don't know what to do.

I wonder if those pits would show up in an x-ray. If all else fails, I might try to find an avian vet to take her to, hate to let her waste away and die because I can't figure it out..

 

[coach723]

I was thinking the same thing. If there were enough pits in there, then the gizzard would probably not be able to work properly. Maybe that bird just gorged on the cherries. I've had one impacted gizzard and it was not a normal sized gizzard at necropsy, it was very small, though packed with food and grit, and it appeared to have just stopped functioning, nothing solid was passing even thought there was nothing foreign in there. It was a frustrating outcome. If everything was backed up then it's possible bacteria grew, causing infection and the yellow. I think if you could get an xray it might at least narrow down if there is any kind of blockage remaining, so probably helpful. If there was a blockage and it's passed I'd think any infection would be easier to treat.
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/blockedgizzard.html

 

[camaro2016]

Alright, a new development that I want to run past you folks.

I've been doing exactly as ya'll prescribed. Since my original post I've give her 3 doses of Valbazen on the specified days, given her poultry vitamins and probiotics in her water and she's on day 5 of the Metronidazone.

There has been a little lessening of the yellow material in her poop, but it's still present and the poop is still watery.

They free-range, but their coop is on concrete and I lock them up at night. Every evening I clean the concrete and every morning I check the poop for abnormalities.

This morning there were 4 spots where she pooped since getting off the roost, 3 out of 4 of those poops had cherry pits in them for a total of 6 pits.

Now I don't give them cherries, but there's a few sour cherry trees on the property and the chickens eat them when they fall in the Spring. The cherries are small and the pits are about half the size of the ones you get in the store, no bigger than a pea. When they started eating them I made sure to check and see if the chickens were passing the pits. All seemed to be passing them fine in their poop and no other chicken seems to have had any issues.

I first noticed her yellow poop back in May, and there hasn't been any cherries available for probably 2 months, so she's been carrying these pits around for 2, possibly 3 months.

I'm not too familiar with chicken anatomy, but is it feasible that something other than the crop could have gotten blocked and caused her symptoms:

1) weight loss
2) slight lethargy
3) yellow poop
4) watery poop with seemingly undigested feed pellets in it

I've been feeling her crop because that was an early concern of mine. Her crop always expanded after she ate, felt like a sand bag and after eating, emptied and felt normal. Her crop never felt hard or full like she had any problems.

Is there any other place in the chicken that those cherry pits could have become lodged to cause a problem?

Could the remaining yellow stuff be infection or bile or something else related to the blockage?

I'll keep giving her the Metronidazone to hopefully clear up any infection that she might have had and I'll keep watching her. Will be interesting to see if she turns things around now that seemingly a "cork" has been removed from the bottle.

Thoughts?