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    Help me get rid of my nightly visitors!!!!!

    Follow-up on previous answer.... The key is persistence and multiple methods. I've tried many [various baits, traps, water dunkers, etc.] and all will catch a few, but they learn quickly, and some just get to be too expensive and a pain to monitor or set up. So in the coop at night, a...
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    Help me get rid of my nightly visitors!!!!!

    We had our huge infestation last year. I'd go out in the evening and sometimes see 18 rats running in the coops, and that was after I thought I had every hole plugged, added small mesh wire over all the other wire, and added wire mesh dug down into the perimeter. This year, I rarely see one...
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    Will breast blisters get very thick and hard?

    Thanks. Since I didn't have this hen when it would have started, I have no idea what it looked like at first. I know about breast blisters when they are small and developing, but just haven't seen one at this point, if it is, in fact, a calloused-over blister. The density doesn't feel like a...
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    Will breast blisters get very thick and hard?

    I just took in a Silkie family from someone moving. Just noticed that one of the hens has what appears to be a breast blister. It's in the right place on her keel bone, but doesn't bother her at all, and only noticed it after I picked her up. But this one is extremely hard and large, and I've...
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