Dear fellow chicken lovers,
I am new here and have a question about one of my little hens. I have read a few posts with the same topic, but didn't come across a similar problem.
One of my ladies has a dirty bum. After a week I phoned a vet who is specialized in Poultry (he is new to me, I just moved to this part of the country) and told him I have a hen with runny poo. We agreed I will gather poo for 3 days and take it to him for examination.
Last night I took her in: she slept in the living room, this morning I looked in her night stay and all the poo was firm... ? Her bum looked cleaner..
So I phoned the vet again and he said: if the poo is firm she has no worms or parasites and I do not need to examine her poo.
I did a little questioning, but still I feel a little lost in this. A chicken does not change poo when nothing is going on.
She a silky, going on 4 this spring, lays eggs once every while (winter time), is her active, happy, curious and on the look out for treats self, as always.
The thing I changed about 2 months ago is their coop. I bought a new one, thought it might be droughty (closed the laying part and this is where they sleep at night..) and so I am wondering: can a chicken get too cold at night and there fore have runny poo, only at night.
Does any one recognize this or maybe other ideas about what could be wrong?
NB. I have never wormed: my old vet told me when there is no suspicion of worms, there is no need and the new vet agrees.
Many Thanks. Toosje