What can you learn from chicken manure?
The appearance of chicken droppings reveals a lot about various ailments and their impact on the feces. Normal droppings take the shape of what the size and diameter of the intestine indicate and are produced in a compact pile. The pile of chicken droppings consists of a fecal and a urine portion. You might think, urine in the feces? Chickens do not urinate like mammals. The white/beige part in the pile of chicken droppings is therefore urine. The color of normal chicken droppings is brown/green and everything in between. Of course, this depends on what the chickens have eaten. 🌿 If the chickens have eaten blackberries or blueberries, the droppings will look like purple piles.
Health
1 August '23 • 2 min reading time
Is the manure noticeably green in color?
This often means that the chickens are not feeling well or are hardly eating. The green color comes from the bile. If they are hardly eating, the green color is not compensated. With toxic green manure and frothy manure, it is important to take action. This can indicate a disease!
Do your chickens have blood in their droppings?
Then it is important to investigate where this comes from. This may indicate coccidiosis, but it certainly does not have to be the case. There may be other causes as well. To identify intestinal parasites such as those causing coccidiosis and worms, it is necessary to have a fecal examination done by a veterinarian. During a fecal examination, the present oocysts and worm eggs are examined. Based on this, one can see what type of parasite a chicken is infected with and also the state of the infection. It is important to ensure that the droppings are as fresh as possible when submitted to the veterinarian.
What can you do to increase the resistance of your chickens?
First of all, it is important to rule out what is going on with your chickens. The results of a fecal examination often say enough. Based on the fecal analysis, you will receive advice to get started. Do your chickens have worms? You can support their health in a natural way. It is important to give the gut health a boost. The resistance lies in the intestines. A thick, healthy intestinal wall is very important. Natural herbs and essential oils can help with this. If there is a worm infestation, it is important to treat curatively against worms. You start a treatment to remove the excess worms from the chickens' digestive system. If your chickens are not suffering from worms and you want to prevent a worm infestation, you can treat preventively. You can do this by providing the chickens with a small amount of supplement weekly, based on natural ingredients and essential oils. This keeps them resilient against worms. We recommend a mixture of aromatic substances (turmeric, artemisia, thyme, and allium) for this purpose. They help to thicken the intestinal wall and support the overall resistance of the chicken. Curatively, you then give a solution of this in the drinking water for a week, every day. Preventively, you give the chickens a dosage of this mixture in the drinking water 2 times a week. We recommend regularly applying a curative dosage and additionally treating preventively. This way, the resistance gets an extra boost! It is also important to know that this mixture is completely natural and safe for the chicken and the environment. These ingredients do not affect the quality of the eggs, so you can continue to eat them. However, this is not always the case when using worm medications.
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