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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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    Chicken Randomly, Hysterically Squealing and jumping around

    Silkies are prone to wry neck, a neurological disorder that can come on suddenly. It has many forms, the neck contortions being only one of them. It can cause twirling, walking backward, and what your chicken is doing. Try giving him vitamin E in the form of 400iu gel caps. Just pop one into...
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    Chicken Randomly, Hysterically Squealing and jumping around

    Post a video so we can see this behavior.
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    Chickens aren’t eating their layer feed

    Age of this flock? If they are old enough to be molting, their appetites may be suffering due to molt. During molt, egg laying decreases and often stops all together. General activity level also decreases. Therefore, their nutritional needs also decrease since demand on their bodies decreases...
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    How old is backyardchickens.com?

    By the way, A.I.Tudy Bot never chimed in. Is she dead? If so, what a shame. (Not really.)
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    How old is backyardchickens.com?

    Yes. As public forums go, BYC is disciplined yet welcoming. I feel the information presented here is head and shoulders above other sites. And we all seem able to behave as civilized members of the human race. I'm really, really proud of us.
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    Suggestions? URGENT ** GRAPHIC

    Just an observation. Facebook and BYC are the same age. Which one would you rather trust for poultry care information?
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