HELP bloody poop Update: Definitely Cocci, please help

I was cleaning the coop and on the roost bar was a dried poop with an obvious blood ring around it. This was two days ago. I haven't seen anything else, but it would be difficult to see in the shavings and sand. Chickens are acting fine. The door to the run has been open the last few days, (new event) but they take infrequent short visits out there. There could certainly be small bits of wire from the fencing that they could have eaten. Is this something I should do something about? Something I should watch? What am I looking for?

 

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ANYWAY.....

I found another bloody poop today. This one was diarrhoea with fresh red blood in it, kind of stringy blood. When I went back to take a picture it was gone (as though someone ate it?) But there are small red smears on the poop board. I searched inside the coop in the shavings but didn't see anything else.

The chickens are 13 weeks old and are eating medicated starter/grower and plain water. They did not get any vaccinations. They get watermelon and hardboiled eggs. There is a little grass in their run and I let them out for an hour yesterday in the evening to free range. They have only recently been going outside.

We have 16 chickens in a 11 x 12 space. Sand outside and deep litter method inside. I have poop boards but they are too close to the roosts so they started sleeping on them. I put them on the floor. I scrape the poop and wash down the boards every other day or so.

All the chickens seem fine? We have 2 roos and the dominant one is really bullying the other one and grabbing the hens ALL the time. I don't know if they are stressed out or not. No real feather loss yet.

One Welsummer hen was standing by the bloody poop today but I don't know if she made it. She has always been kind of shy and she did not go outside to free range yesterday. Didn't want to. None of the chickens really go into the run which is bumming me out.

Let me know if there is anything else I can tell you. If I need to treat something I want to treat it before it gets bad.

Thanks

 

Ok, I checked out that page but there was much more blood in my chicken's poop. While I was cleaning out there another one pooped and it was a little glob of poop in a pool of bright red blood. So I went and got some Corid. The bottle says 4.83 ml per gallon of water (16 oz per 100 gallons). But reading through everyones threads it looks like most people have been using 9 ml. WHY?

When the active treatment dose is done (5 days) should I continue them on Corid for the 21 day prevention? Should I have a break in there to give them some polyvisol???

Any help would be appreciated. This is my first illness and I'm very worried.

They are now 12 weeks and just began going outside this last week. Still acting ok although maybe slightly lethargic. Please help!