Chicken w/ green poop, shell-less egg

[guest226]

Disclaimer: It has been hot and very dry in my area for a week or so, but my hens were al fine. Now it is cooling down. Her behavior is completely fine and she eats and drinks. She is currently being dewormed on day 3 with Safeguard. I have a vet appointment scheduled sometime in the next week.

My 3.5 year old Easter Egger used to have large, healthy brown poops! Then I fed her flax seed as a treat for two days and ever since her poop has been greenish. It ranged from brown with a green tinge to light brown/green. She still poops frequently but the poops are smaller and softer/a bit more wet, although there is no mucus, blood, or worms visable. It has been 1.5 weeks and her poop is still green. Urates are still visable. She has not eaten green vegetables in a week. Usually they would but i am trying to settle her digestion.

Normally, this would not concern me, because it's hot and maybe she had an upset stomach from the flax. But it has been way too long and it hasn't gotten better. THEN, she laid a shell-less egg overnight!! She has always been a wonderful calcium eater and had hard shelled eggs previously and persistantly. Her laying schedule recently went like this:

Day 1: Normal egg
Day 2: nothing
Day 3: soft egg
Day 4: nothing
Day 5: nothing

Her stomach is not flat. There is what seems to be a fat pad under her belly that is not hard nor squishy. I believe its just fat, since this chicken is on the medium side and is a good eater. She has no trouble getting around and she jumps around and everything.

I am worried because my other hen, Clementine has ovarian cancer and I noticed she also had greenish poop similar to this Easter Egger. And I know that because she is a hybrid breed, it is very likely she will get a reproductive issue sometime or another. She has laid many, many eggs in 2 years and I want to prevent anything.

Her poop ranges Looks like this pic from the internet. Remember, they don't eat grass, they are not free-range but have lots of roaming room.

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[azygous]

That is a very normal poop. Poop comes in many colors according to what the chicken is consuming. If you really want to see some outrageous poop, feed the flock some purple cabbage.

 

[guest226]

That is a very normal poop. Poop comes in many colors according to what the chicken is consuming. If you really want to see some outrageous poop, feed the flock some purple cabbage.

She has not eaten any vegetables though. And sometimes it can get pretty green. Sometimes like this!! No veggies in her diet for a week!

 

[azygous]

Food isn't the only thing chickens consume that adds color to poop. They constantly pick up grit, and there are different minerals that cause poop to have a yellowish or greenish tinge, and if there happens to be any concentration of carbon, the poop can be jet black.

The rule about poop is don't sweat it unless the chicken is behaving abnormally or the poop is runny with a lot of mucous in it. The kind of green poop you need to be worried about will look like a puddle of thin milk with small green chunks in it. That would tell you the chicken is sick and not eating, and the chicken will be acting sick.

 

[guest226]

Food isn't the only thing chickens consume that adds color to poop. They constantly pick up grit, and there are different minerals that cause poop to have a yellowish or greenish tinge, and if there happens to be any concentration of carbon, the poop can be jet black.

The rule about poop is don't sweat it unless the chicken is behaving abnormally or the poop is runny with a lot of mucous in it. The kind of green poop you need to be worried about will look like a puddle of thin milk with small green chunks in it. That would tell you the chicken is sick and not eating, and the chicken will be acting sick.

Ok, thank you! Im so paranoid about cancer because of my other hen this makes me more relieved, thank you!

 

[guest226]

Food isn't the only thing chickens consume that adds color to poop. They constantly pick up grit, and there are different minerals that cause poop to have a yellowish or greenish tinge, and if there happens to be any concentration of carbon, the poop can be jet black.

The rule about poop is don't sweat it unless the chicken is behaving abnormally or the poop is runny with a lot of mucous in it. The kind of green poop you need to be worried about will look like a puddle of thin milk with small green chunks in it. That would tell you the chicken is sick and not eating, and the chicken will be acting sick.

Oh yeah another thing, my other hen had these green poops that did not have mucus and were not watery and she still had cancer.

And my other hens eating the same exact thing don't have green poops.

 

[azygous]

As with humans, chickens also are individuals with individual differences. I will say for the final time that the poop you've got pictured is normal in every way.

Also, there is no way we can diagnose cancer from the internet. Cancer behaves differently in different chickens, many living long normal lives in spite of it.

As a general rule, a sick chicken will act sick. The poop may or may not be abnormal. However, unusual poop in a chicken behaving normally is little cause for concern. Unusual poop in a chicken behaving abnormally is cause for concern.