Capillary worms can damage the esophagus, crop and intestines to the point where they actually can cause the crop not to empty properly and for food not to be digested properly. Blood in poop screams worms, coccidia or bacterial infection to me, so that's what I would treat for.
Hello I know this is an old thread but I’m hoping you could tell me what happened to your hen? I’m experiencing the exact same thing with one of my own, so much straight blood poos and I’ve been treating for cocci for three days. Did your hen respond to cocci treatment?I posted about my chicken Nellie on here a few weeks ago. I noticed a few strange droppings that were very liquidy/mucousy with a little blood and her crop seemed a little squishy. She was also lethargic and listless an just wasn't herself.
When I asked about it on here everyone said to treat her for coccidiosis, but our vet thought otherwise. We don't have an avian vet around us but we talked to our equine vet and were told that it's possible she had some sort of crop impaction and most likely not cocci. So we've been tubing her with mineral oil, and giving her probiotics. But her poop continued to stay very loose and wet.
Now yesterday I noticed what appeared to be fresh blood in her poop, and this morning her poop was nothing but blood. Help!!! She's normally a pretty good layer but I don't think she's laid an egg in awhile, but the whole flock has slowed down laying recently so it's hard to tell who's not laying. She had a few decent days but went downhill again yesterday and today and I just don't know what to do to help her!
I’ve also dewormed and treated for mites
