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These guys are 6 weeks old- I think the first white one is a roo, cuz of the pronounced wattle. But I don’t really have much experience so I could be wrong. The black one looks like a pullet to me, the buff one is MASSIVE, but I can’t tell myself if it’s a pullet or a roo. What do you guys...

Hey! I got 6 silkie chicks from ideal poultry and they are 4 weeks old. I know it’s hard to say for sure with silkies but does anyone see any strong possibilities that any of these could most likely be one or the other? The single buff chick I have has no leg feathers but is the LARGEST one...

She had her eye open this morning- it was oozy though, like, semi cloudy liquid on the bottom eyelid waterline, but not crusted or dried shut. I’ve been flushing with saline every day so I’m not sure if that’s helped heal it- the teramycin is out for delivery and gets here today so I’ll be...

Here’s the video from last night! And here’s a clip of the head wobble

No odor and nope these are my only chickens! I got them all from ideal, all came together, and were all healthy and fine until the black one had the crusty eye 2 days ago. I can separate her but I think I’ll need to buy another heat lamp because I’ve only got the one. I think I need to encourage...

Okay so I did browse a few threads that I thought maybe I could scour for some help but I actually DONT think it’s that! Because there’s no smell that I can notice (and apparently it’s hard to miss) I have a very sensitive nose so I feel like I’d notice immediately? The eye is definitely...

Managed to get a photo of it just now as it was actually opening its eye. It’s so swollen!!! I can hear it sneezing or sniffling constantly. I hope it doesn’t die :(

Okay thanks so much! I change it every day, or other day (depending on how dirty it is) sometimes I’ll put a fresh paper towel under the brooder plate multiple times a day just so their most frequented area is super clean. I’m using fresh flakes, but is there something else that’s less dusty...

I wish I could attach a video here but it looks like when you spin around a bunch and then try to walk in a straight line is the best I can explain it! Like vertigo! It’s so odd. And intermittent?? Which makes it even more odd. The eye has gotten so much worse :( I just rinsed with warm water...

Oh wow so just like people hold tea bags on their styes in their eyes! Interesting- def gonna look this up! It’s gotten worse and so swollen :(

Gonna attach some photos- it’s so hard to see the eye bc the chick affected is black and it just looks normal lol :( this is after I cleaned it- didn’t manage to snag any photos before, because I had to clean it immediately and was freaking out Black chick- crusted eye Buff chick- the one...

Okay so I got silkies from ideal poultry in the 27th. 8 of them. 1 died in shipping- 1 died second day. Seemingly of nothing! But I know that’s just the nature of it sometimes. One of my chicks had pasty butt and I cleaned it for days- It had a minor vent prolapse. I made sure to put Hydro...

I was really concerned about where and how to get the feathers, lol! I finally found some videos and images that helped me. I picked them easiest with a pair of tweezers- from around their butt! I felt bad, but it didn’t seem to bother them too much. Just get a good hold on the feather’s base...

Bumping just in case anyone else has any advice 😖 I’m afraid of what to do if it doesn’t get better

Ok I did everything suggested today and as I was soaking it (i have been doing it twice a day) this afternoon after rinsing off any debris after the soak, I noticed the vent felt hard. I touched it with care not to push it in, or be too rough, and all of a sudden a release of a TON of poop came...

Here are some new photos from right now. I have been trying so hard to keep it clean 24/7, not letting it accumulate (except for when I’m asleep) but I’m not sure what else to do. Should I buy Epsom salt? I bought the poultry vetericyn. It gets here tomorrow. My local pet store just had the cat...

so I applied witch hazel every day Everytime I needed to clean its butt. It’s had hard dried poop usually stuck to it’s butt area, nothing as extreme as anything I see on google when googling chick pasty butt or prolapsed chick vent- but it’s definitely still an outie vent. Should I use prep...

Sorry I think the way I said it sounded confusing- this is afterwards, but I meant that it hadn’t gotten worse since I cleaned it, the size of it anyway

Hi! this is my second set of silkie chicks this year and all are doing fine- but one of them, I did clean it’s Butt off the first day I got it, just bc there was a bit of dried poop, and I didn’t want it to get any worse. Dried it off gently, went back under the heat lamp with its friends. I...

Okay cool I snipped it way way shorter so that it doesn’t look so appealing to the other chicks, lol. Some of them don’t seem to be getting the hang of drinking out of the waterer. I put droplets on the tips of my fingers and all of them drank that way but maybe they’re just not thirsty yet...