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Update... I am now seeing chicken poop that looks like chocolate pudding. Is that a good or bad sign?

For my sick ones the dose is .5ml amoxicillin and corid for the water, per the label.

Your birds symptoms sound the same as mine.

If you have a chicken vet nearby, take a stool sample to the vet. It only takes 20 minutes for the results.

The girls have been taken care of. So I have been racking my brain... trying to figure out what is different this year, and how my birds ended up getting Coccidiosis. I think I have it figured out. I live in the Great Lakes area, where the surrounding farm fields are sandy loam. Usually the...

Thank you for the response. I use plastic waterers because I would normally put ACV in the water. I took a stool sample to the vet, and it came back positive for Coccidiosis. I guess I have been very fortunate up to this point, with no Coccidiosis for 3 years. The vet gave me a bottle of...

Here's another pic with no urates. Solid green pencil sized poop.

I should add that a good number of my hens have messy vents as well.

Right now I have another Red, and 3 Sussex showing the same symptoms. Not sure what the dark green stuff is. Kinda looks like plant material.

The Red that died discharged that the night before.

The abdomens on the sick birds are bloated. Obviously the white stuff is the urates. No clue with the green part. The discharge is about a 3-4" circle.

Thank you for your reply. Chickens are 2-3 years old. Yes, they are laying, except for the sick ones. I lost a Red a few days ago. I think she had trouble passing a "breaker marble" sized egg. That's when I noticed the clear fluid/green stuff (discharge). She died later that night. I checked...

So far I have managed to get my 20 birds through bitter cold temps, and sweltering heat over the couple years without too many issues. Even birds of prey. This year is proving different. This started with a couple of hens exhibiting an opaque liquid and green discharge from their bum. The...