One thing that poultry farmers need to closely monitor is the colour of their chicken droppings.
Colour is a key indicator of diseases. If colour changes from normal brown to yellow and even red, there is usually every indication of gut infections and other disorders in the chicken.
It could be an indication of coccidiosis, a common, and sometimes deadly, intestinal disease caused by a parasitic organism that attaches itself to a chicken’s intestinal lining.
The most common symptom of the disease is blood or mucus in chicken droppings because the oocyst, or the parasitic egg that causes the disease multiplies rapidly, rupturing bowel cells in chicken.
Chicken droppings may also appear brownish red in colour due to the normal shedding of cells.
Droppings with blood stains could also be an indication that the chicken or chicks have round worms.
If the chicken peck each other, they may cause injury which shows in bloody droppings.
The list is long and it can only help that you bring in a veterinarian as fast as possible.
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