Help please with our sick chicks!

[BlueMoon]

About four weeks old, two just seemed off. Kind of huddled up, resting on hocks. Then I noticed a hen knock one over! Like it just tipped.

I took them out and noticed they were warm, legs seemed swollen and their butts were enlarged, all puffy.

A little while later, the bigger one (that tipped) started twisting around, clearly in agony. Throwing its head back, gasping. I picked it up and it died. A milky goo started running out of it's beak and then I noticed I had its bloody stool all over me.

What could it be? I am so concerned they all die or that we can get sick from whatever it is that killed this one.

 

[BlueMoon]

any ideas? anyone?

 

[jojoncandie]

bloody stool sounds like coccidiosis to me but the milky goo out the beak has me wondering....Ill try to do some research and get back with you...

 

[BlueMoon]

I've been treating them for cocci since right before that one took sick. No one else has died, including the one I took out with the now dead one. This morning, so about four days into Corrid, another one is all huddled and gasping. I've quarantined it and it's under a heat lamp, in the 80 degree heat we're having. It's tremendously light, as if it's starved, but shows no interest in feed and yogurt. Any thoughts?