This topic can be a little unpleasant For some of you: if you have a bit of a weak stomach or find the analysis of your birds’ foul-smelling droppings tedious and disgusting, I suggest you move on to other topics. 

As for the rest, let’s take a look at the intestines—what parts they’re made of, defecation, feces, or droppings, their composition, color, and whether they’re hard or soft—of our beloved chickens.

We all know a bird is sick when it’s withdrawn and keeps to itself, seems depressed, has ruffled feathers, isn’t eating, etc.

Breeders' top priority is always the health of their chickens or other birds. One of the most important ways to monitor their health is to observe and examine their droppings, which can indicate whether they are normal or suggest the presence of any diseases, whether gastrointestinal or parasitic.

The problem is that this description of their droppings alone is just a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to diagnosing what’s wrong with our chickens.

As you already know, the treatment of the symptoms never works; that is, you must find mainly the cause and then treat.

Often, finding the cause can be as simple as taking a closer look at the fresh droppings from our chickens or other birds. Color se ve influenciado por the diet ave.

What is all this from the droppings?

Bird droppings are quite distinctive because all of the waste is expelled at once, in a small, neat, bubble-like or tube-shaped form.

Normal stool is cylindrical in shape, reflecting the size and diameter of the intestine.

Together with the stool, it is a variable amount of uric acid or urate (cal) and urine (water). The urates are usually in the form a bubble or mixed in with the stool and should be white or beige. 

Chicken droppings consist of three parts:

The urates:

They are a byproduct of the kidneys and are usually snow-white when dry. They consist of the crystalline portion of urine (uric acid) and have a consistency that is neither very liquid nor very solid. Urates with yellow or green discoloration are a sign of trouble.

Urine:

It's the clear part, and it's like water; in fact, it's not much different from any of the others animals. Sometimes, urine and urate crystals mix together to form a cloudy liquid; there is no need to be alarmed if you do not see the two distinct areas.

• The causes of blood in the urine include kidney disease, lead poisoning, and bleeding in the cloaca.
• Causes of green urine (biliverdin) include liver disease (particularly common in psittacosis) and the presence of bile in the feces.
• Yellow urine is rare; it is usually caused by a severe, rapidly progressing liver disease (such as a herpesvirus infection).

The stool:

This is the third part, and it’s the only one that’s actually solid. It’s that section in the middle that looks like a tube. It can be straight, spiral-shaped, or even broken into smaller pieces, but it still retains its tubular shape.

Stools can be normal or abnormal:

It’s important to keep in mind that it’s normal to see droppings when our birds are healthy. This is because healthy birds eat a rich and varied diet, and their coops, feeders, waterers, and, of course, their yards are kept very clean.

When they get sick, the droppings will always be abnormal, either by the color and consistency, odor, etc. These observations of the stool are what can indicate health problems.

Always remember that the diet, stress, and the environment will have a natural effect about the droppings of the birds. 

Stress:

During times of stress, droppings will naturally be more watery; this is mainly because, when a “fight or flight” response occurs, this bodily process in birds is triggered by an instinctive reaction.

When the birds are scared, they expel the waste out of your system before taking flight, or flee. These cacas will have more amount of urine, and urates in the feces each day.

If the stress is ongoing, most droppings will contain very little feces, or none at all.

Also, you will notice plenty more piss in the feces if a bird drink in excess or eats food with high content of water. Lettuce and fruit have a very high water content and are the most common cause of watery stools.

The color of the stool may change from time to time, depending on what the chicken has eaten recently.

Seeds Green vegetables naturally produce green droppings, while blueberries and blackberries produce black droppings; similarly, if they have eaten ash or charcoal mixed with sand to deworm themselves, their droppings will also be black.

If we feed our hens with pellets in the diet, the stools tend to be the same color as the pellet, if these are colored or rusty color or if they are colored.

If we see that the stool of our birds are bad, we will keep the diet simple, that is to say, re-seeds, for a few days and come back to check.

Fortunately, our chickens' digestive system works very quickly, and they won't have any foreign matter in their system, since they expel it from their bodies relatively quickly.

We must always keep this in mind and pay close attention to our birds’ droppings in order to identify segments of worms, the eggs and larvae of parasites, from the respiratory system, digestive tract, digestive system and excretory.

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