ID Stool Pics: possible Cocci returned?

[khind]

I treated my small flock with Corid (4 days, then repeated 2 wks later for 3 days) because a 5 wk old chick's stool tested positive for coccidiosis. This a.m., six days after the last dosage, this tiny stool came out of a chick (now 8 wks old). (The chicks look so much alike that I can't say for sure who this was!) Looks like blood in it, surrounded by lots of water in this 100° heat. Gel-like, not just thin liquid blood. Normally I'd figure to keep my eyes on their stools, and if more look iffy, test and treat as nec. Just want to get some others' gut reactions though, since they were all just treated, and no one seems "off."

And for the record, no chick's stools ever looked thin and runny of blood like many pics I've seen of coccidiosis stool. The only reason I had one chick's stool tested before was that s/he was very lethargic.
I'm sorry - I see now that these aren't the clearest... ugh.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Possibly just shed lining, keep an eye on it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I don't think so.
However, by now, they should have become resistant to the species of coccidia on your property.
Coccidia is everywhere and any animal with soil contact will have some evident in a fecal sample. It doesn't always mean they have coccidiosis.
Cocci is any spherical shaped organism, usually a bacterium.
The protozoa that is concerning to you is called coccidia.

 

[khind]

Thank you, Chicken Canoe.. Makes sense.

 

[khind]

Possibly just shed lining, keep an eye on it.

That was my first thought. Thank you.

 

[khind]

A chick has been acting very strangely today. I noticed a couple hours ago it was sitting with eyes closed under a bush away from the others, who were panting in the heat but still foraging.
Don't know if it's the same chick with yesterday's stool or not, but this one just stooled a lot of white, is acting kind of dazed, and is sitting with hind up. 8 1/2 weeks old. Red comb & wattles still have red coloring (not pale). I just saw this stooling & sitting occur when I came out to see if they were going to sleep for the night, with broody mom.
(I wonder if the stool might not simply be due to the heat. The posture, however, is worrisome.)
They eat Flock Raiser.
I have to say, this one is probably the same one who's been walking up and letting me pet it on the neck and back like a dog, for a while. Slower moving than the rest. Doesn't seem quite as bright, but maybe I'm anthropomorphizing .(I'll check my pics right after I post this to verify whether this is the same chick as the one whose behavior I just described.)

 

[khind]

2nd pic is a chick standing over this one after it stooled, looking at the chick strangely. A few minutes later, when the chick sat the same way elsewhere in the yard, a chick picked gently at its soiled hind feathers, as if to preen it. It didn't hurt the chick, kind of curious maybe? It stopped pretty soon.

 

[khind]

I'm guessing it's a rooster, by the way, due to its coloring and also because even though it's feeling under, it suddenly got the strength & idea to jump up onto the outside of the nest box while the others went in with mom thru the run door below.
2 close-ups of its vent:

 

[khind]

Last bit of info: it's been really hot. I typically let everyone out of the run a few times a day in the heat. Today i went early a.m. as usual, and they went back in after 20 min, as usual. A few hrs later, I checked and changed their water (to cool it), but left them in run due to work schedule, whereas I would've let them out for another 45 min. I didn't let them out again until almost 4:30 p.m. A little later is when I saw this chick sitting alone, panting. I carefully picked it up and stood it in some cool water, just to the middle or top of its legs (not as high as its feathers), just for about 10 seconds, because it got a little excited about it and I didn't want to add stress.

 

[khind]

If you have some time, could you please check out some new info I added today? I don't know if you get an alert simply because you responded to the thread already.