Recent content by MonarchMama

Did you ever figure this out? We have this happening with one of out hens at the moment. It sounds like pop rocks crackling, or a plastic wal mart bag crinkling, coming from her back end. It happens about twice every minute in our hen, doesn't seem to be when she breathes.

How do you clean their poop out of this?

We just bought silkie chicks yesterday and tonight noticed this one has two different colors on each eye. I don't know how old the chicks are, maybe about 3 weeks(the breeder had different sizes together between 3-12 weeks) They are all still peeping, not fully feathered. This chick isn't as...

We are experience this exact thing with our 7 month old silkie hen named Snowball. I found her yesterday morning with a twisted neck. I tried to put her out in the run but she was stumbling around in circles, not being able to stand much. I figure it's because she can't figure out which way is...

Thank you, I am in Massachusetts, United States.

One of my newer young silkies (less than 5 months old) has been having loose stools. On October 29th we realized that something was wrong with her vent. It looked like it had built up, dried Stool on the inside of it and was swollen and red. After talking to a local chicken nurse and treating...