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This is my silly man Xerxes Kei, he's a ham! Does anyone else have a persian?

I have 2 silkie hens, and I have been told to give them higher protein food so I have been giving them multi flock starter/grower 22% protein. I recently changed food and bought Agway's new hearty hen layer and a bag of H and H soy-free non-GMO starter. I need to board my rooster at a different...

I am looking for a farm willing to board my Polish rooster come spring time. I rent and my neighbors open their windows when the weather is nice and may be bothered by my rooster crowing at 6:30am. He is a very sweet boy, a little shy but not an aggressive bone in his body. My boyfriend and I...

My friend has a 3 week old silkie chick with wry neck. She is giving it poly-vi-sol without iron 2-3 drops 4 times a day, and she bought some Vit E soft gels today. How much of the Vit E should she give if it is 400mg? Also, we can't find Selenium anywhere, is it essential that she buys it? If...

Both my friend and I have house silkies. Do we need to give them a vitamin d supplement since they are not out in the natural sunlight or is the amount in their food enough? I do give my chickens a poultry conditioner that contains Vit D. This is what they are eating...

So I saw today some pictures of underground green houses and thought it was genius. Then I got to thinking, why not an underground chicken coop? I wouldn't have to worry about temperature, since below 6 ft always stays around 70F no matter if it's summer or winter! That means so worrying about...

Can I give my chickens mango's as treats? I just bought an organic local grown mango and wanted to give it to them.

Can't find a thread on this so let's do it! I want to start a thread where the experienced silkie keepers give advice about everything related to showing silkies ie. all things preparation, grooming, keeping them clean, how to rid those darn yellow stains, what to do at the show, etc! My...

I have a little pullet(3 months) who lives in my house. She gets pretty dirty with poop, she is extremely fluffy and it likes to stick to her, especially when she wears a diaper. Is it fine to give her a bath every few days if I am using a mild baby shampoo? (like johnson and johnson but...

Should I cook the winter squash seeds or can they eat them raw? I am boiling the squash so should I boil the seeds with it?

I just got a rooster and didn't realize my town of bow, nh doesn't allow roosters! If none of my neighbors complain should I continue to keep him? The woman I got him from said New Hampshire has a right to farm law I can contest if I am told to get rid of him. He isn't very loud right now, but...

I live in Bow, NH and just found out I am not allowed to own a rooster I just got my baby, toulouse, at a swap the other day and I am very attached to him. He is 5 months old and just started crowing. I am trying to find a home to lease him too until my boyfriend and I buy a house which should...

I just got a polish cockerel yesterday and he had an awful lice problem. I gave him a bath with flea shampoo and dawn and scrubbed him down really good. I noticed he is also sneezing but his nose doesn't really look very runny. Should I hold off on giving tylan until I know for sure if he has a...

I am looking for a large breed hen/pullet. Needs to be friendly to other chickens and people. I am in Bow, New Hampshire.

I have been searching the threads but all I can find is people with sick chickens asking if it's asthma. My problem is I have a little silkie pullet, about 9 months old, who had a really bad cough for 2 months. Finally got vigorous because I was getting annoyed nothing I tried was working and I...

Do you feed the BOSS in-shell? just want to make sure before I give them to my girls.

I am trying to use Oxine on my silkies because I think at least one has a respiratory fungal infection. It doesn't seem to be working well, but I want to give it more time. Also my other one started sneezing after getting water up her nose during a bath . So can I give both of them Tylan while...

I have two silkies, and I noticed their beaks are cracked and "dry" looking. We have a show in 2 weeks from tomorrow and I am FREAKING OUT . What is causing this?! What can I do to fix it? I have vaseline, will that help? Here is a discription of how they are living to see if anything is causing...

I have seen in a post that someone gives their chickens the tylan 50 injectable orally. Can someone please confirm this? I just bought some to try on my little girl who has been coughing/sneezing and wheezing for 2 months now. Nothing else has worked. I live in New Hampshire and unfortunately...

I want to start a color project starting next year for this color because I think it is gorgeous and pops up every once in a while but people aren't sure what to do with it She is from partridge eggs, but is sort of a mix of buff partridge and paint. You can't see it very well here but she...