Oyster Shell In Poop?

[JNC]

Is this normal? It looks a lot like OS to me. I don’t know which duck it came from. They are all acting fine should I be concerned?

 

[R2elk]

Is this normal? It looks a lot like OS to me. I don’t know which duck it came from. They are all acting fine should I be concerned?View attachment 2483851

That looks like grit that has passed directly through. Oyster shell will not pass through intact. It dissolves as soon as it hits moisture.

 

[aart]

Oyster shell will not pass through intact. It dissolves as soon as it hits moisture.

Hmmm.....Not sure about that.
Going to set some in a dish of water.

 

[Sally PB]

Awaiting the results of that experiment...

 

[aart]

They are all acting fine should I be concerned?

Could be oyster shell, could be grit, could be stuff off the ground.
Sometimes they gorge on stuff and hopefully it all moves thru.
I'd not worry unless bird is acting 'off'.

Awaiting the results of that experiment...

2 hours in, no dissolution.
Tho the 'liquid' in a bird could break it down faster.

 

[JNC]

They don’t get grit the have this small fort ground full of rocks big and small. It could be that but that looks a lot like the OS I give them. Hopefully it came from my female not my drakes.

 

[R2elk]

Could be oyster shell, could be grit, could be stuff off the ground.
Sometimes they gorge on stuff and hopefully it all moves thru.
I'd not worry unless bird is acting 'off'.


2 hours in, no dissolution.
Tho the 'liquid' in a bird could break it down faster.

Move it around with a spoon or your fingers. It is very soluble. Oyster shell is too soft to make it through the gizzard intact.

 

[aart]

Move it around with a spoon or your fingers. It is very soluble. Oyster shell is too soft to make it through the gizzard intact.

I have been....no breakdown after 3 hours now.

Agrees it would be hard to get thru the gizzard intact,
unless the bird gorged on a bunch of it and it pushed thru.

 

[JNC]

Sorry, I can’t move it around because I already cleaned out their house.

but For two days straight she ate all the OS I left out which seemed weird because she never eats them all. Either she ate a lot more or my drakes ate them too. Today it looks like she didn’t touch the OS at all. part of this could be because i left the gate open so they had a lot more space to move around. She might of found her all the calcium she needed. I still don’t know for sure that the poo came from her though. I only think it came from her because my drakes don’t seem interested in it.

Hopefully it’s nothing serious.

 

[aart]

Agrees it would be hard to get thru the gizzard intact,
unless the bird gorged on a bunch of it and it pushed thru.

but For two days straight she ate all the OS I left out

Ah, so she did overindulge. It should be fine.

Sorry, I can’t move it around

That was @R2elk 's reply to my experiment....
....which after 15 hours the OS still has not dissolved.