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I have plastic bands on most (not all) of my chickens so I can tell them apart for reasons like this. I never found any bleeding from combs, toes, vents, nothin! I cleaned the coop and roosts and never saw blood in there again. The mystery will remain, I'm happy that it wasn't one of my girls that was injured!@ChickenCanoe has a brilliant system for medicating/working but I think it would work for health inspections, too.
As you give each chick a once over looking for injury/bleeding attach a zip tie to the ankle of each completed chicken. This way you can do small groups of a few at a time without losing track of who you've checked already. Just snip them off once you've either found the culprit of been through the group!
Good luck! I hope it's nothing too serious!