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How are they doing today? Do you have them with a heat source?

Hello, hope you are enjoying BYC! :frow There's no pic posted to consider playing the "guess my breed/gender" game. Age is also a useful detail. :pop

Welcome to BYC! :frow They need enough of the treatment on board for their guts to feel well enough to eat anything. Have you been able to get treatment into them? What is the treatment being used/prescribed? What are you feeding? Hope your babies feel better and recover quickly. :fl

No.. excessive cleaning is not required.. just keeping the bedding dry and the water poo free. These coccidia are in the gut of every chick/chicken.. out of the 9-11 strains currently known to effect poultry only 1-2 actually produce blood in the waste.. and this only during times of...

I heavily invested in washed river sand.. only to discover that it's a giant stinking litter box with all the poo juice left behind EVEN though I sift poos out every day.. I HATE it! :sick It's also heavy to move and does not compost. Sweet PDZ makes a difference.. Droppings boards definitely...

Yep, classic coccidiosis. and not every single poo may be bloody but treatment is still needed. I'd return her to the flock before she's got to work her way back into the pecking order.. and treat everyone. Being alone is depressing for chickens.. now that you've confirmed it's not an injury...

Were they raised together with and imprinted on the chickens or separately? Together and the same age/imprinted makes it a faster ticking time bomb than if they're not imprinted.. but yes, it's an accident waiting to happen and avoidable. Have you already tried your local craigslist, either...

My experience with ducks from this place was good.. Live birds, sexed correctly, and the breeds they were supposed to be. https://www.metzerfarms.com/

That was my thought also at first.. but Svart Hona is a probability, off the top of my head regarding chickens.

Crested cream legbar crossed to something else. The barring will stay. Cute chicks! 🥰

I agree with this statement! The sound is cockerel crowing.. I coudn't see the specific bird. Sometimes as early as 10 but usually around 12 weeks gender specific saddle feathers may be seen.. more flowing like the second pic around 16 weeks images from google.. More close to what a blue BCM...

Upload to youtube or other media then link here. Looks like a pullet to me also.. but just blue not blue copper. If it was copper and also male then it's WAY missing it's proper coloring.. for informational purposes only.

It's very rare that I can appreciate people's magic remedies and fixes.. but what you shared here was very practical. Now I need to find the thread where someone else was describing essentially the same thing (pendulous grit) but not successful treating thus far with the standard...

Permethrin is safe for use on chicks.. I've done it before.. using a cotton ball to apply.. never had to do baths.. just a bit under each wing pit, right below the vent on the abdomen, and at the back of the neck where the head meets the neck. ETA: anytime I did have to bathe a chick...

Partly depends on how clean your processing was.. but I was seriously surprised to see just how long they were still good for without any feeling of slime or scent of funk like is common from commercial poultry. I have gone just about that long safely.

How old is your hen, and do you have another thread on her already going? Drinking water while going off food can be a symptom of a blockage.. Check her crop.. is it flat and empty, hard and full, or squishy and full...

Still sounds *possibly* essentially like what would be called edema (symptom).. caused by or called ascites in poultry (heart failure which can be progressive as opposed to sudden death). Sorry for repeating myself and seeming one tracked. If the body was able it would naturally reabsorb those...

No and my best guess would be something similar to a "meat spot" or sloughing reproductive tract material.. near the bottom of the article. I'd also be a little on the lookout for signs of Salipigitis or lash egg which are not noted in the following link...

Using a different feeder type might help some.. what are you currently using? Maybe adding in some shiny whirly bird type things that blow in the wind. Hanging old CD's from fishing line, etc. Those garden type fake owls.. are useless in my experience.

I still feed them back to the animals.. dogs, chickens, etc. :thumbsup