HELP! My chickens are all sick!! What kind of medications help??

GlowBean

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Just gonna go right into it all of my chickens are sick (I have 13 of them, 1 male and 12 females), Here we go!
Shotgun - Green & diarrhea poop - Male
Dusty - Diarrhea poop - Female
Soldier - Diarrhea poop - Female
Lemon - Diarrhea poop - Female
Stub - Diarrhea poop - Female
Cantaloupe - Tiny bit of blood in her poop - Female
Lavender - Diarrhea poop - Female
Pothos - Normal poop - Female
Dalmatian - Haven't seen yet poop - Female
Speckles - Haven't seen yet poop - Female
Cinnamon - Haven't seen yet poop - Female
Chipmunk - Tiny bit of blood in her poop - Female
Also I have one missing chicken named Sassy don't know where she is! And I don't know what to do! I apologize for panicking and mixed up words though I'm really worried about my babies. What other steps should I take?
Here's the video I made.
 
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Just gonna go right into it all of my chickens are sick (I have 13 of them, 1 male and 12 females), Here we go!
Shotgun - Green & diarrhea poop - Male
Dusty - Diarrhea poop - Female
Soldier - Diarrhea poop - Female
Lemon - Diarrhea poop - Female
Stub - Diarrhea poop - Female
Cantaloupe - Tiny bit of blood in her poop - Female
Lavender - Diarrhea poop - Female
Pothos - Normal poop - Female
Dalmatian - Haven't seen yet poop - Female
Speckles - Haven't seen yet poop - Female
Cinnamon - Haven't seen yet poop - Female
Chipmunk - Tiny bit of blood in her poop - Female
Also I have one missing chicken named Sassy don't know where she is! And I don't know what to do! I apologize for panicking and mixed up words though I'm really worried about my babies. I will be posting some attachments soon that way you guys can see. What other steps should I take?
I will be cleaning the poop every day now due to this paranoia.
 
Please post photos of the chickens, their poop and housing.

How old are they?
What do you feed, including treats?

Panicking never helped a thing, so take a deep breath and calm down.


You have another thread about injured chickens from yesterday...photos were asked for and never received on that thread either - how about getting some photos of the feet concerns as requested and posting them on that thread so people can follow up with you?
Here's a link to that one https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/4-chickens-injured.1609574/page-2
 
Please post photos of the chickens, their poop and housing.

How old are they?
What do you feed, including treats?

Panicking never helped a thing, so take a deep breath and calm down.


You have another thread about injured chickens from yesterday...photos were asked for and never received on that thread either - how about getting some photos of the feet concerns as requested and posting them on that thread so people can follow up with you?
Here's a link to that one https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/4-chickens-injured.1609574/page-2
For some reason it won't let me take photos on my tablet, I'm going to try it on my mom's phone.
 
Videos must be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo with a link posted here. Besides pictures please give ages, laying status, what you feed, etc.
Alright I do have a record on my google docs I copy and pasted it here:

Chickens - Egg layers:​

Soldier:​

Status: Alive
Hen
Animal: Chicken
Age: 2 ½ years old
Breed: Golden Comet
Pattern: White tuft on the chest
Personality: Chill, social
Leg band color: Blue & Green
In molt: no just being bullied badly
Feed - Layer feed (Unknown what kind)

Lemon:​

Status: Alive
Hen
Animal: Chicken
Age: 2 ½ yrs old
Breed: Golden comet
Pattern: Biggest comb and arrow feathers going down her back
Personality: Second leader, Social
Leg band color: Yellow
In molt: no
Feed - Layer feed (Unknown what kind)

Stub:​

Status: Alive
Hen
Animal: Chicken
Age: 1 ½ yrs old
Breed: Golden comet
Pattern: Medium sized comb
Personality: Spunky, leader
Leg band color: Green
In molt: no
Feed - Layer feed (Unknown what kind)

Cantaloupe:​

Status: Alive
Hen
Animal: Chicken
Age: 1 ½ yrs old
Breed: Golden Comet
Pattern: Smallest comb
Personality: Shy, social
Leg band color: Blue
In molt: no
Feed - Layer feed (Unknown what kind)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Male cockerial
Shotgun:
Age: 5 ½ months
Male
Pattern: light gray w/ dark gray saddle, with weird rose comb
Chick feed

Pullet egg layers:​

Dusty:
Age: 5 ½ months
Pullet
Pattern: Dark brown, w/ dark brown face
Caramel:
Age: 5 ½ months
Pullet
Pattern: Brown with light brown face
Chipmunk:
Age: 5 ½ months
Pullet
Pattern: Brown with chipmunk like tan face
Chick feed

Dual purposed chicks:​

Lavender:
Age: 5 ½ months
Pullet
Legband: Purple
Personality: Sweetheart, loves pets, tolerates getting picked up
Chick feed
Pothos:
Pullet
Legband: Green
Personalty: Butthead
Chick feed
Dalmatian:
Pullet
Legband: None
Personality: butthead, sweet
Chick feed
 
Photos of the "bloody" poop would be good, very hard to see what's going on in the video.

Also close up photos of the feet may be helpful.

I don't see anything necessarily alarming with the poop. What do you feed, including any treats or scraps that you have given?
Do you provide grit (crushed granite) for your flock?

You mentioned in the video, they are eating dirt and that's weird - not really, chickens eat dirt all the time.

For the feet, I'd like to see photos. Looks like they probably have frostbite.

The hen with the wrapped feet and red leg band, needs to be tended to. Those wrappings need to be soaked off and photos taken of her feet.
Wrappings needs to stay dry and changed at least daily - perhaps a few times a day depending on how wet/soiled they get. With feet being wrapped, getting wet in the snow and being in cold weather, you're setting her up with more damage to the feet.

For the rooster, hard to tell, the video is not very clear, but his feet are not in good shape either.

Ventilation is important, so if the building they are in doesn't have good ventilation, do what you can to remedy that problem soon or you may end up with some respiratory issues as well.
 

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