Flesh in the poos

[chrismahon]

I know Tim was going to put a poo chart together sometime but I can't see it on the main site. We have had two cases in two days of the same thing. The birds are far apart in different areas but the poos are approximately the same.

The first was a two year old Buff Orpington hen. An early morning poo containing a large quantity of pink flesh and some stringy bits. I've seen this before with night poos which I put down to part-digested earthworms. But this is the first time I've seen it in the run in the morning.

The second this morning was with TNN cockerels 9 weeks old housed in a shed. Same thing basically. What looks like a poo of pink flesh. Same consistancy as a tomato's flesh and looks very similar.

I've seen lashes and coccidiosis bloody poos but these are very different.

Now it's daylight if we get any more I'll photograph them. In the meantime anyone any ideas what it is?

 

[chrismahon]

Photo attached (third attempt -still a technophobe).



Has anyone ever seen this? Rosie reminded me that we have had this in much smaller quantities with the Wyandottes and administered Flubenvet wormer. Whether it stopped as a result of the wormer or whether that's complete co-incidence we don't know.

 

[Marigold]

i have sometimes seen smaller bits of what I presumed to be strands of detached intestinal lining in various poos and I would suppose this is what yours are (when I say 'yours,' you know what I mean..... ) Interesting it occurred with a cockerel - not an oviduct thing, then.
Are the birds otherwise in apparent good health, Chris?

 

[chrismahon]

Apparently in perfect health Marigold. So good I am checking for eggs with the hens, which is where the two samples photographed came from this morning. They are big hens, so the proportions with the TNN baby cockerels is about the same to body weight. All our birds are in excellent health at the moment. Think the peace and quiet has a lot to do with it -no traffic noise or wind.

 

[tygrysek75]

Can't really help with that,never seen anything like it.

 

[BabyBantam]

Chris, there is an image that looks similar on this page. I found this the other day when looking for my probs. with Nancy. It lists loads of healthy / normal and abnormal poos. YouRs looks to be a more severe version of one half way down the page.
http://chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0
Doesn't explain your cockerel though, as Marigold says.

 

[Marigold]

Yes the ones in those pics look like what I have sometimes seen. The caption says 'intestinal lining' so presumably would apply to both sexes.

 

[chrismahon]

Looks just like the picture in the link BB. So 'shed intestinal lining' it is and hopefully the site is correct in that it is perfectly normal. We also get the red stringy bits in the previous picture. They look like part digested worms and we have always wormed at that point. Strangely we don't see any of this until they are due for worming anyway. All the ones we bought over were done in August, a few weeks before departure in September. So they are all about due again at 4 months on. Problem is you can't get Flubenvet premix over here. I'm not sure there is much of a worm problem though, as it gets so hot and dry in Summer the poos with any eggs in frazzle up quickly. The chicks are too young to worm and haven't been outside yet anyway, so no way they could contract worms -they are in two heated sheds.

 

[BabyBantam]

Fingers crossed, your images do look more than a little scary though!

 

[chrismahon]

Hence my post BB. I was in a bit of a panic after seeing that much.

 

[Mrs Brewster]

i've had a similar thing to this and same was advised it was shedding of stomach lining, which only last a couple of poos and things were back to normal.

But is quite scary to see for the first time, i think generally if the blood continues with a ill bird to boot, then worry. Otherwise, if they are fine, i think its normal.

 

[chrismahon]

Had no more Mrs Brewster and they are all healthy and happy. So exactly as you say. Thank God for that!