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Looks to me like internal laying. Based on my experiences with it, I have not doubt in my mind. I only had one hen who died from it poop yellow like this. I doubt it's blackhead.
The antibiotics were working because her illness is probably due to the yolk buildup in her abdomen becoming infected. When you stop antibiotics, the infection kicks in again. That yellow in the poop if the yolk in her abdomen being excreted. The blood in her nostrils is probably a side effect of her body shutting down under massive stress and infection. Two of the girls I lots to internal laying had blood in their nose/throat upon death, one other had bloody stools mixed with egg yolk. There is no cure, the infection inevitably kills. Some people have prolonged life by sucking the excess yolk out of the abdomen it a syringe and continuing a life-long regiment of antibiotics, but it's no quality of life for the bird
The antibiotics were working because her illness is probably due to the yolk buildup in her abdomen becoming infected. When you stop antibiotics, the infection kicks in again. That yellow in the poop if the yolk in her abdomen being excreted. The blood in her nostrils is probably a side effect of her body shutting down under massive stress and infection. Two of the girls I lots to internal laying had blood in their nose/throat upon death, one other had bloody stools mixed with egg yolk. There is no cure, the infection inevitably kills. Some people have prolonged life by sucking the excess yolk out of the abdomen it a syringe and continuing a life-long regiment of antibiotics, but it's no quality of life for the bird
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