What do the five colors of chicken droppings each indicate?

1. Red

2. Green

3. White

4. Watery

5. Feed-colored

Red droppings

1. Formed, with beef-thread-like strands, coccidia first-generation schizogony stage

2. Orange-red, falls to the ground unformed, undigested feed Enteritis

3. Purplish-red bloody droppings Cecal coccidiosis

4. Brown droppings, more in the morning, less in the afternoon Normal

Brown droppings, less in the morning, more in the afternoon, vibrio hepatitis

5. Bloody droppings, mechanical injury or scratch

Green droppings

1. Light green and formed, normal inside and green outside, vaccine virus-shedding period

2. Light green to yellow-green, falls to the ground formed, green inside and out

Early stage of viral disease

3. Dark green, falls to the ground unformed, green inside and out, loose and messy, middle stage of viral disease

4. Chive-green, green, yellow, white watery droppings, late stage of viral disease or strong virulence

White droppings

1. White droppings lead-oil-like, infectious bursal disease

2. White watery droppings with flat raised protrusions gout

3. White rice-washed-water-like watery droppings, kidney swelling or stress from transfer between groups

1 Kidney swelling

2 Rotavirus infection

3 Restricted feeding of breeding chickens

4 Aftereffects of amantadine (kidney swelling)

5 Aftereffects of rhubarb and Oriental waterplantain rhizome

6 Magnesium ion content on the high side

7 Intestines chilled (intestinal cold)

Feed-like droppings

1. Eating too much feed, spleen deficiency ---

2. Early stage of intestines being chilled ---

3. Early stage of coccidiosis enteritis

4. Early stage of viral disease

Yellow droppings

Egg-yellow droppings Salmonella, E. coli

Sulfur-colored droppings cecal hepatitis