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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

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

    Ah! So the public aspect of Facebook and BYC are the same age! Which forum would you rather get reliable poultry information from?
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    How old is backyardchickens.com?

    Just curious. How old is this site?
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    Suggestions? URGENT

    New Skin can be toxic to animals and birds if ingested. Therefore any use other than human is not recommended.
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    Suggestions? URGENT

    I just remembered this old article I wrote about dealing with a chick of mine that was scalped by the rooster. I documented the progression of my treatment and healing process. You will see from the photos there that even a chick missing all the skin on the top of her head will grow new skin...
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    Suggestions? URGENT

    Here is my second suggestion addressing wound treatment. You do not need to stitch a torn skin flap. "Glue" the flap by coating both the raw wound and the skin flap with wound ointment. Stick the flap down on the ointment and add a heavy layer over the top to hold the flap in place.
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    Suggestions? URGENT

    I'm going to respond two different ways in two different message windows. First thing I will suggest is to examine your run and coop so as to create plenty of escape routes for the chicks, and be sure to eliminate any dead end corners where a chicken can trap a hapless chick. That's how these...
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    Not sure? Very worried

    Thanks. This tells me she should be molting. Are you seeing that? From time to time, I will have a molting chicken lose their appetite and suffer severe weight loss. I've even had to tube feed such a chicken in order to bring them back from a starvation situation. First thing to try would be...
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