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How to identify chicken diseases by looking at chicken manure?

Normal chicken manure is in strips, with a layer of white urate on the surface, and moderate hardness. Its color may vary depending on the type of feed, mostly gray-green or sauce-yellow. If it is too hard or too thin, it is caused by insufficient or excessive drinking water. But if it is too soft, it is because there is too much bran and wheat in the feed. If the chicken manure is abnormal in quality, quantity, shape and color, it may be caused by disease.

There are several types of abnormal chicken droppings:

Flesh-red feces: The shape is like rotten meat, which is formed by the shedding of intestinal mucosa. It is more common in chickens suffering from coccidiosis, tapeworm disease, ascariasis and in the recovery period of enteritis.

Bloody stool: Black or dark brown stool is common in upper gastrointestinal bleeding; red or bright red stool is more common in lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

Yellow sulfur stool: The surface of the stool is covered with a layer of yellow or light yellow urine. This is caused by damage to the liver lobules, which affects the excretion of bile, causing bilirubin to enter the blood and be excreted through urine. It is more common in appendicitis and hepatitis.

Green, sticky and foul-smelling feces: The feces are dark green, which is caused by the mixture of bile and shed intestinal tissue cells, and is often seen in fowl cholera, Newcastle disease, laryngotracheitis, etc. Thin feces: The chickens have normal digestion, but the feces contain a lot of water and are not formed. This is mostly caused by a sudden increase in water intake during hot weather, too much salt in the feed, mild infection with E. coli, and slightly toxic substances in the feed.

Rusty watery stool: Rusty watery stool mixed with urate, and sometimes mixed with incompletely digested feed. This is caused by severe intestinal bleeding. It is often seen in diseases that cause gastrointestinal bleeding, such as early Newcastle disease poisoning. Milky stool: Milky white, watery, like milk poured on the ground, often seen in mucosal congestion and mild enteritis. White watery stool: Sticky, often sticky to the chicken's anus, often seen in pullorum.

White watery stool: The stool is watery and mixed with white urate particles. It is more common in chickens with no appetite, paralysis and uremia. This is caused by the absence of food in the digestive tract and the stool is urate.