bloody vent

This flock of barred rocks are not yet a year old, but they have reached laying maturity and have been laying for a few weeks now. One of them had a poopy butt which I thought was normal because their was no evidence for vent gleet. Tonight I found a hen shaking underneath the coop's house/roost...

I have a hen who has been getting lots of issues lately. First, a few weeks ago, it seemed she had sour crop, but then it went away by itself before I had a chance to treat it. Now suddenly she's unhealthy again. She's been hiding in a nest box all day and this morning it looked like she was...

One of my chickens has a very bloody vent. A couple of weeks ago I had a chicken from the same coop have a blowout, and she died. This chicken--her name is Duds-- has been laying bloody eggs the past several days, and nothing I did seemed to be helping. She now has what looks like a blood clot...

Hi, I'm new to BYC.. This morning our hen wouldn't come out of her run and wasn't eating or drinking. We took her in to have a look at her and found she has a huge black blood clot at her vent. When I tried to dislodge it so it wasn't blocking her vent and preventing her from passing droppings...

Why is my hen laying a bloody egg? It doesn't happen every day, or even very often, but every oce in a while I will get an egg with a ring or a smear of blood around it. Can any of you tell me what this means or if I need to worry about it? Sometimes this is like skid marks, as if the hen's...

Actually similar symptoms have happened to other chickens in my flock the past year or so--all one at a time, never two sick together. They start by getting lethargic, sitting rather than walking around. I notice a messy vent. We clean it out as best as possible, separate them as well, but...