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Lost a hen, another is acting off. Treated for cocci, but dead hen had liver damage. Help!

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I lost 1 hen about 6 weeks ago and decided to treat everyone with Corid and ivermectin, though I do not know whare her cause of death was.

Lost a second hen 2 days ago. She had been pale on and off but was still laying any active the day she died. I opened her up (took pictures) and found that her liver was severely damaged, black masses, disintegrated in places and there was a larger blood clot in her abdominal cavity on that side, so I am guessing she had damage to her liver gum. Coccidosis and it hemmorhaged, causing her death.

I'm the liver had lots of hard black things in it similar in size and shape to rabbit poop. She also had a lot of abdominal fat around her intestines and gizzard. The rest of her organs looks normal to me, though I'm more familiar with the inside rabbits than chickens. She was a heavy barred rock.

I just finished 5 days of amprolium (5 weeks after the first round), then 3 days of toltrazuril right before she died.

Now her buddy is looking pale and drinking a lot of water and I'm afraid she's going down, too. I just observed a loose poop that had a reddish brown streak in it, though I'm not sure if it was blood or cecal poop. She's been eating well, and active, but it's hot today, about 90 and humid, and she's an orpington.

Is there anything I can do for her to help her? I had intended to do the extended lower dose of corid but since the toltrazuril came in I just did that and was going to repeat in 6 days like it said on the package. Anything I can do to support healing the damage?

Thank you!
 

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They were on purina layer feed until about 3 weeks ago when I switched them to all flock because my turkeys moved in. In the winter they got a little scratch every day but not in the summer. They have occasionally gotten black soldier fly larva and wild bird seed for treats, but they free range a couple hours every day since it's been warm out (North America, it's summer here) and they haven't gotten much of anything for treats except the cherry tomatoes they snatch off my plants and the bugs they catch. I've given some table scraps a handfull of times, but really that's rare. There has been game bird starter in the run the last 3 weeks, but it hardly gets eaten. They all prefer the all-flock feed.

My one hen that died and had the abdominal fat was my heaviest chick from hatching on. She was the dominant hen and could easily have gotten the lion's share of anything we put out for treats. I'll post a pic of the abdominal fat. There was a ton.
 

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They were on purina layer feed until about 3 weeks ago when I switched them to all flock because my turkeys moved in. In the winter they got a little scratch every day but not in the summer. They have occasionally gotten black soldier fly larva and wild bird seed for treats, but they free range a couple hours every day since it's been warm out (North America, it's summer here) and they haven't gotten much of anything for treats except the cherry tomatoes they snatch off my plants and the bugs they catch. I've given some table scraps a handfull of times, but really that's rare. There has been game bird starter in the run the last 3 weeks, but it hardly gets eaten. They all prefer the all-flock feed.

My one hen that died and had the abdominal fat was my heaviest chick from hatching on. She was the dominant hen and could easily have gotten the lion's share of anything we put out for treats. I'll post a pic of the abdominal fat. There was a ton.
They must be getting too much of something(Fatty) in their diet to cause this.

The abdominal fat seems consistent with Fatty Liver Disease.
 

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