Broody hen with blood and worms in her poop!

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Around june 4 one of my young bantam roo got coccidiosis, after a week and some help from lovely people here made him recover and is active again. But I didn't treat the rest of them with amprolium because in the instructions says it's "prohibited from laying age onwards" so instead the next week I gave them albendazole, however this week I noticed some white watery droppings again and I'm not sure if it's because of the heat ( it's wet season here but when it's sunny it's very hot ) so I gave them this instead.
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It's the same one I gave to my young roo but a powder version. As per instructions i gave it to them for 3 days and stop at 4th then continue to 5th-6th day, and today is the 5th day.

I noticed some improvements and the watery white poop only appears occasionally but the problem is that the broody hen in question is NOT the one who has those white watery droppings but another hen and my young roo.

She started sitting on her eggs around the second day I guess? But all her poops are normal even her broody poop after she got out today is normal. She always gets pecked by my other hens so I made sure to keep them away so she can stack up some feeds in her crop, after an hour I went outside again to bring her inside and let her sit on her eggs but I noticed some small bloody droppings and thought its from the birds so I touched her crop and its empty with small water inside and then she pooped and it has blood on it with yellow watery poop probably from the medicine and 2 small worms wriggling but stopped after some time.

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Her routine after I let her out is drink lots of water, poop a massive one, find somewhere she can sand bath, and then come back to eat. I didn't watch on what she did today but only made sure that other hens don't bother her.

Again, her broody poop is normal (atleast that's what I think because there's only one broody poop i saw) and after that there's mostly watery poop with a little bit of chunk and some small bloody droppings (The second poop in the pic is the one I saw her poop and witness the wriggling worm ). I let her eat some left over scrambled eggs but she only ate a little probably because she hates the oil and small bit of rolled oats, after that I couldn't force her to eat some more because she really wants to go inside. Please help🙏🏻 what is wrong with my hen🥹?....
 
Do you have a photo of the worm? I'm having a hard time seeing it in the photos if it's there.

Have you checked her vent and under the vent for any signs of wounds/injury or maggots?

Has she been dewormed?

I'm unclear if she's also drinking the medicated water or not?

See if she will eat her normal feed. What is the purpose of giving oil - are you trying to clear her crop or?
 
Do you have a photo of the worm? I'm having a hard time seeing it in the photos if it's there.

Have you checked her vent and under the vent for any signs of wounds/injury or maggots?

Has she been dewormed?

I'm unclear if she's also drinking the medicated water or not?

See if she will eat her normal feed. What is the purpose of giving oil - are you trying to clear her crop or?
Hey! Thanks for responding again! I really thought no one responded. After letting her out yesterday she didn't poop blood and back to normal poop again so I really don't know the cause of it.

The worm is really thin like the size of an eyelash. I have no clear photo of it tho, I immediately removed and clean it after taking the pic. According to google its probably from her guts since it dies after exposure outside? I don't know if its harmful tho or the cause of the blood.

i didn't check it that time for injuries but there are no maggots in her vent area. My roo mounted her tho.

2nd week of june I gave them levamisole hydrochloride + albendazole med so yeah she has been dewormed. And last week is the one i sent which also have anti bacterial but I don't know how effective.

yup she is. I changed all of their drinking water to the medicated one.

she ate yesterday but only a little, but today she didn't ate it probably because she got chased today from her fellow hen and roo and doesn't want to eat anymore, but when i wet it and gave it to her she ate it but as always only a little than she used to.

The oil is just the excess oil from cooking the egg and the egg turned out to be oily so she hated it.
 
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I'd keep a close eye on her to make sure she's getting off the nest and eating/drinking.

If you used the Bosterno Plus, then that should have taken care of most worms.

I'd finish up the Sulpar and see how she does.

It's possible she may have something else going on.
 
I'd keep a close eye on her to make sure she's getting off the nest and eating/drinking.

If you used the Bosterno Plus, then that should have taken care of most worms.

I'd finish up the Sulpar and see how she does.

It's possible she may have something else going on.
Ok i will thanks❣️
 

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