During the past week, one of my birds has started producing orange-pink urates, which stain the pale cream aubiose as you can see in the left hand pile in the photo. I painstakingly picked off the aubiose from the two smaller bits, so they might have been a brighter colour before the orange soaked out of them on to the bedding. The other girls are all producing normal chalky white ones. From the position of droppings in the coop, I'm 99% sure it's one of my 19-week-old hybrids, but I'm not sure which one. Both are eating and drinking normally and growing steadily, the Blacktail is near to lay I think, though the Leghorn has quite a way to go yet. As you can see, the droppings are normal except for the funny colouring.
I have looked carefully for a possible source of food which might be causing this, but there is nothing in the run, and otherwise they are out on a grass circle penned in by chicken netting, not foraging in the hedgerows etc. They have no access to puddles or anything but clean water in the drinker. They are all eating the same pellets.
Since they all look perfectly healthy and active, I'm not worried particularly, but all the same - any comments, anyone?
