Color of Chicken feces and Disease diagnosis

Normal chicken feces are composed of feces and urine, soft and hard, mostly cylindrical or strip-shaped, brownish green, with white urate at one end of chicken feces, no stench. The feces discharged for the first time every morning are mushy and yellowish brown, which is a normal phenomenon. After the chicken gets sick, the color of its feces is often abnormal, and the disease can be preliminarily determined by observing the color of chicken feces.

White feces

When chicken manure is yellow-white or gray paste, not formed, it may be the occurrence of chicken white dysentery or avian cholera. When chicken white dysentery occurs, diseased chickens often discharge sticky, calcareous feces, sticking to the chicken anus, resulting in defecation difficulties. When avian cholera occurs, diseased chickens often have severe diarrhea and discharge gray-white feces. When chicken feces are white or yellowish-white and mixed with white urate particles, it may be infectious bursal disease and can also be seen in chickens with loss of appetite, paralysis and uremia. In addition, dilute feces can be seen in inclusion body hepatitis, chicken paratyphoid, egg drop syndrome, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and so on. If there is milky milk-like feces, dilute water, like milk poured on the ground, more common in mucosal congestion, mild enteritis or vibrio hepatitis.

? Blood-colored feces

The most common cause of chicken excretion of red feces is coccidiosis. Cecal coccidiosis usually occurs in the bloody stool of chicks around 1 month old. Chickens with acute cecal hepatitis can pull bloody feces at the initial stage and bloody feces at the later stage of leukoplasmosis carinii. Coccidiosis, taeniasis, ascariasis and enteritis convalescent chickens can also cause blood stool, feces are fleshy red, like rotten meat. In addition, inorganic or organic poison poisoning can also cause intestinal bleeding and bloody stool. Necrotizing enteritis, Newcastle disease, mildew corn poisoning can also cause chicken feces with blood. Among the above diseases, in addition to cecal coccidiosis often have bright red blood stool, easy to identify, other diseases or causes of blood stool, the appearance of most of the dark red, must be carefully observed. In general, feces are dark red, black or tea black, common in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, feces are red or bright red, more common in lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

Black faeces

It is a kind of blood stool, because black feces are often caused by bleeding in the front of digestive tract, such as duodenum and small intestine, and the appearance of feces is mostly black or tea black, showing occult blood. If the feces are ferruginous and mixed with urate, it is more common in the early poisoning of Newcastle disease that causes severe gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition, myogastric erosion caused by rotting fishmeal poisoning can also cause black stool.

? Green faeces

Green is caused by the mixture of bile and exfoliated tissue cells of the intestinal tract, the most common cause of which is Newcastle disease. Sick chickens generally pull thick and smelly green dung, the feces show dark green, accompanied by mental depression, loss of appetite, dyspnea and other symptoms, late neurological symptoms, egg loss and other symptoms. In addition, avian cholera and leucoplasmosis can also cause green feces in diseased chickens, while colibacillosis, Marek's disease and lymphatic leukemia, avian typhoid, chlamydia trachomatis and laryngotracheitis can all cause green feces in diseased chickens. If the chicken eats excessive grass powder feed, it will also make the feces green, but this kind of feces is dry and hard, which is easy to distinguish from the green feces of diseased chickens.

Yellow feces

Tissue trichomoniasis can cause chickens to discharge dilute turmeric feces. Apricot yellow feces are usually caused by streptococcosis. The yellowish water sample is caused by inclusion body hepatitis. Yellow and white thin feces can be caused by infectious bursal disease or chicken campylobacter disease. Yellow feces or yellow-brown sparse feces can be caused by dysentery poisoning. The surface of yellow sulfur feces is covered with yellow or yellowish urine, which is more common in appendicitis and hepatitis. Zhuo Yicheng