Poop picture -watery and white

[Tracyree]

would you be concerned about this poo? It’s liquid and white.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

would you be concerned about this poo? It’s liquid and white.

That's a loaded question LOL

If it's a one-time poop. No, I would be not concerned.

If the bird is active, eating/drinking, laying eggs and interactive with their flock. No, I would not be concerned.

If the poop is consistently like that, the bird is showing signs of decline or illness, then yes, I would be concerned.

 

[Tracyree]

Ok, something is up with my flock. So two weeks ago I notice a few poopy butts so took those two to the vet. Vet said she thinks it was kindey problems from too much calcium (i was feeding layer and had oyster shell out). She put those two on antibiotics just in case (one had a fever) and anti-inflammatories. Now I have two with this very watery diarrhea. One had a yellow tinge in it. I checked this morning and the one with all white did not poop more throughout the night or changed her spot on the roost. Then there was another area with diarrhea with yellow.

What should I do? Everyone is active. Most never started laying before the weather turned, I have a flock of 11 and get about 3 eggs a day. Something is wrong but I don’t know what to do.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Wonder how high the fever was? A chicken's body temperature is normally 105-107F.

For now, I'd just monitor.
Make sure they are drinking well and staying hydrated. Feed a nutritionally balanced poultry feed. Layer feed should be fine if they are of laying age. Oyster shell should be provided free choice as supplemental Calcium for actively laying birds.

If you know which pullet expelled the poop with the yellow tinted urates, I'd keep watch on her. Could be she's coming into lay or could be an indication of something going on with the liver.

Hard to know what's going on.

 

[Perris]

So two weeks ago I notice a few poopy butts so took those two to the vet. Vet said she thinks it was kindey problems from too much calcium (i was feeding layer and had oyster shell out).

Most never started laying before the weather turned, I have a flock of 11 and get about 3 eggs a day.

If they are young birds yet to start laying, layer feed has more calcium in it than they need. Depending on how long they've been on it, and how each they metabolised it, some may have coped better than others.

Things that we think of as nutrients can be toxic if given in higher quantities than are needed by the individual eating it.

Personally, I would stop giving layer feed. It may be too late for those whose kidneys are already damaged by the excess calcium, but you can at least stop any more suffering it.

If you give your birds a choice of foods, they can select what they need and will balance it to suit their own individual requirements, which vary bird to bird, day to day, and meal to meal. No single bird is 'average', which is what homogenised feed formulations deliver to them all, in every single mouthful.