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    Turkey Hen caught her foot in a fence

    No need to cage her as long as the others aren't trying to hurt her.
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    Turkey Hen caught her foot in a fence

    There is no need for an antibiotic. The hen's foot is in the process of auto-amputating. She will soon lose the foot. It doesn't mean that it's infected. Poultry walls off a serious injury to an extremity by cutting off blood supply. There is virtually no danger of infection getting into the...
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    Nevermind! TUMS dosage?

    Tums is calcium carbonate, same thing as oyster shell. You may need to break them in half since these are large wafers. Use two to get the amount of calcium that's required. In the future, it helps to keep all related questions involving an individual chicken in one thread so all the...
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    At my wits end with this crop situation!

    Everyone has misgivings at first about a chicken being able to swallow a big pill. What you need to know is that humans often have trouble swallowing big pills because we are conditioned to chew things before we swallow because our digestion begins with chewing. It's why we have teeth. In case...
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    At my wits end with this crop situation!

    Be careful not to mistake symptoms for the disorder. Sand in the crop is a symptom of trouble in the digestive or reproductive tracts, not a crop disorder. Chickens compulsively eating sand means they are trying to accumulate grit to help quench discomfort in the system. If sand does accumulate...
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    Mite Identification

    Mites have eight legs. Lice have six. It appears you may have lice, not mites.
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    hens waking up in middle of the night

    Here is a link to purchasing the roller for a bucket trap...
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    hens waking up in middle of the night

    Every city neighborhood has rats. The more thick landscape vegetation there is, the more rats you'll have. One place I lived long ago was in a high-end neighborhood in a rented room. There was a backyard and front yard full of English ivy. The rats, as large as cats, would climb up a tree...
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    hens waking up in middle of the night

    Chickens are light sleepers. A light coming on in a house nearby can wake them and cause them to make noise. But I suspect there is a serious rat problem behind this. Having been a state park ranger assigned to some pretty primitive housing, I've been awakened by rats running over my head at...
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    Stool question- never seen this before

    https://jedds.com/products/trimethoprin-sulfa-medpet?_pos=1&_sid=9ba243557&_ss=r.
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    Stool question- never seen this before

    That much intestinal shed can indicate a serious case of worms or coccidiosis. To cause this amount of shed, you can be looking at parasites and inflammation that is getting into the bacterial infection stage. That's why Corid plus an antibiotic is recommended. If you have a vet you use, you...
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    Repeat Sour Crop

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-treat-sour-crop-and-impacted-crop-and-how-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/
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    Eye color. Acting sick.

    Molt causes pale combs because hormones are not active during this time. All of my thirteen hens have pale dry combs. So does my rooster. Appetite also suffers during and after molt. Feed extra animal protein such as fish or ground beef or cooked egg. Red happens to be the color of many...
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    Impacted/Sour Crop: help needed!

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-treat-sour-crop-and-impacted-crop-and-how-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/
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    Glad to be here!

    This sounds like a temporary disruption, not a full-blown bullying issue stemming from stress from being relocated and the subsequent adjustment. But read this article that @BigBlueHen53 referred to. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/chicken-bully-chicken-victim-a-two-sided-issue.73923/...
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