Blood in droppings

[MissSL]

Hello, I need help again please!
We now how 2 very large free range pens, and 5 coops.
In one coop we have Flo, a layer and 2 now ten week old chicks, Samson & Delilah. So after lots of chaos in different ways all was calm and sorted. That is until I go to let them out and clean them today and there's around maybe a teaspoon (no more) of blood where the chicks perch. Both are eating, drinking & active. Called our vet, who asked me to check their bottoms. Both chicks are black, no signs of blood. Checked mum whose white, also no sign of blood. So we are told to take the chicks to the surgery.
Vet charges us £24 but has no idea what to do.
Any ideas please?
We give them apple cider vinegar in their water. Should we worm them? Can the adults & the chicks have the same treatment? What's the best think to use? (UK) Been to the supply shop and there is so much I don't what to use! Nothing said it got rid of worms!
We are really new to this, I just want to get it right!
I clean out all five coops every morning and put clean shavings in. Thanks in advance.

 

[Kiki]

Blood in poop usually means Coccidiosis.
Get some Corid/Amprolium or something similar asap.
The entire flock can be given Corid.

 

[Isaac 0]

Can you take a Picture?.I have free range chicks who poop bloody poop once and a while.Bloody poop doesn't always mean cocci in my case its always intestinal lining.It seems cocci poop is a blob of blood while intestinal lining is more stringy.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Cocci poo too me is more like blood water.

Only 1 out of the 9 type of cocci present as blood in the stool.

And when my chicks got it not every poo had blood.

Sounds like you caught it early since you don't have other symptoms yet... which would be standing around with eyes closed.

Agree I would use Corid, Amprol.. or something amprolium based as it treats most types of cocci. At my vet they can do a fecal float to check coccidia levels in droppings usually around $15 usd. Thing is, there is ALWAYS some because every chick poo has cocci. It becomes a problem usually in warm humid conditions similar to that of a brooder. Weather can have an impact. And my pasture had it good one year.

If you treat like that... do not supplement vitamins at the same time because the treatment mimics a thiamine (b vit) blocker that starves out the coccidia, thereby slowing their growth not killing them.

Chick pics welcome to see if we can spot anything... I don't quite understand the suggestion for surgery.

 

[MissSL]

Blood in poop usually means Coccidiosis.
Get some Corid/Amprolium or something similar asap.
The entire flock can be given Corid.

That's what I was afraid of.

 

[MissSL]

 

[MissSL]

There was more blood underneath, but I'd already cleaned that away.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It's hard to tell - but if I saw that in my coop - I would start the Corid.

 

[Kiki]

Looks like blood to me.
Corid is safe enough to use even as a "just in case"...it could save some lives.

 

[Kiki]