Worming Chickens?

I have a sick chicken. She's wheezing and looking ruffled. I read through this whole thread and then decided to treat the flock with Worm Away, which states it is Praziquatel (20g/L) and Oxfendazole (20g/L). Worm Away is marketed as a cage bird dewormer, so I'm a little worried about my concentrations of medicine to water ratio. Anyway, I ended up squirting a measure of it into a litre of water (the water looks like thin milk) and leaving it overnight for them as the only source of liquid. My birds all free-range and will be kept inside for the duration of the day.

If I'm reading all this correctly, my questions are as follows:

We shouldn't eat nor incubate the resulting eggs for 28 days, right?

If, after picking up and discarding the remaining medication tonight, can I/should I treat with Cocci Care as well. Or, will this be too big a strain on the chickens' health? As a note: I treated my whole flock because of the sick one year-old hen above. I assumed she is suffering from worms because of her symptoms. However, I lost a chick who was lethargic and had bloody stool to what I thought was Cocci several days ago. Am I doing the right thing here? Should I be treating for Cocci only? Or did the dead 8 week old chick actually succumb to worm load?

A little confused here, so I thought I'd come to the best place to help my flock.
 

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