Chicken poops can vary in appearance. This all depends on the diet of the birds, growth stage of the birds, season of the year and the general health state of the bird.
By observing the poop of your chicken, you can determine if something is wrong with your chicken. It is a common belief that the poop of chicken should be of ash colour with a white cap. While this is true, the poop of a normal chicken poop can vary depending on diet, season, climate and state of health of the chicken.
Abnormal chicken poop
Green poop is possibly caused by lack of appetite, starvation, intestinal worms, Mareks disease, Newcastle disease, avian flu and salmonella. The most reasonable cause is when chicken consume green vegetables, grasses or herbs.
Brown poop. This is possibly caused by lead poisoning or infectious bronchitis. Normally it is most commonly caused by ingesting feeds with high liquid content.
Yellow and foamy poop can be an indication of intestinal worms, coccidiosis and fowl typhoid. Some other causes may be intake of some foods like straw berries, tomatoes, oats and corn.
Red or bloody poop is caused by advanced coccidiosis, internal wall shading or intestinal parasites. White poop is caused by food digestion problems, bacillary white diarrhoea, stress, coccidiosis, fungal or viral infection.
Black poop indicates bleeding in the upper parts of the digestive system caused by blood that has fallen into the digestive tract.
