2 chickens died, emaciated, green poop, help please for cause

[Betsy57]

I'm afraid I have two chickens that may have this

My new rooster, Prince William and one of the hens. Can't tell which hen yet but on the roost over night, the green runny poop was where Prince was roosting and one spot next to him, so whoever has been roosting next to him. I am so scared I'll lose my new Prince and my hens! If it is this disease, I've read elsewhere (The Chicken Health Handbook) that there's nothing to be done to treat it. Prince is in with my new gals, 16 of them. They all have not been drinking as much or eating much the last few days (drastic change). I had been getting a dozen eggs from them and then the last two days just 6 eggs. I'm scared!

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[PoultryPedia]

Green poop is a sign of low quantities of food passing thru the system & usually happens when a bird is starving. Are the birds skinny that you think may be sick?

 

[Betsy57]

There are two that have watery green poop and I noticed several other real green poop droppings but it is nice and firm. I have been trying to switch them from Chick Starter to Layena and they're not liking that at all. So I am going back to the Chick Starter and will try to get them to eat some calicum. I am concerned, if it is that bad disease, guess there's nothing I can do about it. I sure hate to lose my whole stock. They've just been laying about a month. I will try to pick them up tomorrow and see how they feel. Thanx for the response.

 

[Betsy57]

I picked up several hens and Prince and they are very thin. I can feel their breast bone, no meat there. I am feeling very sad and think I will lose them. I will be devastated!

Several days later, their poop is not runny now and barely green if at all. Maybe they'll make it? They're still very thin.

 

[Riarose]

I am trying to find out why 2 of my chickens died. I have had chickens for only 1 year, so there is still so much I haven't experienced with them and need to learn. I had one 5-month old pullet die on Monday (it was actually my daughter's) and another 1 which is 1 year old which died just an hour or so ago. I called our 4H poultry chain leader, and he didn't know what they might have had. His guess was maybe worms? I looked on this website for a little while and even added some questions to a post on here, but couldn't come up with an answer. That's why I decided to start a new post. My daughter's pullet and my chicken were in different pens but exhibited the same symptoms. It's like they were wasting away. It is like they starved to death---no food in the crop, very little weight on the body. When I found each one of them, she was very weak, could not really move (but the day before each one of them acted fine). Neither one was interested in food or water and had light, very bright green liquidy poop. Before they died, they had labored breathing, with their bodies quivering all over like they were cold. The 1-yr-old chicken had rattley-sounding breathing before she died as well. After reading some stuff online, I fed my 1-year old chicken some scrambled egg yesterday after finding her. She acted ravenously hungry, so I figured that maybe the other chickens were keeping her away from the food. But, this morning I found her to be in as bad of a condition as I found her yesterday morning--maybe worse. She did not eat any of the crumbles or scratch I left out for her overnight, and when I held her over the food or water, she acted disinterested and wouldn't try to eat or drink even when I stuck her beak in it. By the way, I isolated each one after finding them. Could this be worms or coccidiosis or cholera? I am at a real loss, and I want to find out what this is so that the others don't come down with it. Here is an overview of the symptoms:

wasting away, emaciated
no energy to move, extremely exhausted
bright, light green liquidy poop--awfully smelly
5-month old pullet drooled a little while I was walking around with her
quivering body and labored breathing before death

Anybody with any ideas, please help. I don't want to lose any more of my chickens.


Thanks so much.

Hi, I’m new to chickens as well. I’m currently experiencing the same symptoms and loss. I just lost a pullet and am currently trying to save the other. I took the surviving pullet to the vet and she said my girl had a fever, pneumonia, coccidiosis as well as worms. The worms were microscopic so I wasn’t aware. I didn’t hear any coughing or sneezing. I’m heartbroken that I didn’t catch this sooner. They had the green poop and started acting lethargic. Upon picking them up, they seemed emaciated. She’s now on antibiotics for everything. I’m told to treat the rest of my flock with corrid for the coccidiosis and safeguard for the worms. She suggested that I give them the safeguard every six months as a preventative. I hope this helps!!

 

[Hunker Down Hen House]

I checked for mites--no mites (at least not visible). I have my chickens in pens on the ground--I don't free range because of predators. I have not wormed my chickens. I am concerned about using medicines for worming as I try to go as natural as possible. How do you administer, and how often, the apple cider vinegar? Does it affect the taste of the eggs? I contacted the poultry lab--they need a live chicken to test, if possible. They said it would be much cheaper and easier to test. They would pull bloodwork and such, then euthenize the chicken for further testing. I'll contact my local extension service to see what they say. Thanks.

As far as the head thing goes--they couldn't seem to hold up their heads--didn't have the energy or whatever. They just laid/sat on their legs as if nesting with their heads flopped forward resting on the ground.

I too have had 2 birds pass away with these same signs and symptoms…we have no poultry vets around here where I live. I did however get a vet talked into testing my emaciated hens poop. The vet said she only had 1 coccidosis (spelling) egg in her stool, so I treated with Corid…she still hadn’t gotten better. Even treated her for a week with orbax. She sadly passed 3 hrs ago. bright green poop and all. Very weak as well. If you or anybody else has any ideas please let me know. I’m leaning toward the worm diagnosis…but vet saw no worms.

 

[Hunker Down Hen House]

Any ideas what wormer I can give my hens and rooster? They are ages ranging from 4 months to 3 yrs. Thank you!

 

[Betsy57]

Green poop is mostly bile; multi organ failure. I had a state lab do a necropsy one time. I have had them die with green poop too, real thin. I did my own necropsy and the intestines past the crop was packed with green grass so nothing could get down them, so they starved to death and the organs failed. That'd be my guess. Just nothing that you can do I don't think. I have another one in the process of dying now too. Very sad.