Hi, so I have a new silkie and someone has mentioned that she may be vulture hocked, what does this mean in terms of showing, and is it possible to remove them?
Thank you this helps a lot, from tonight they will be in a new coop with attached run (I will attach a photo), I'm gonna try and let them out now and again but keep the door open for them, hopefully they won't wander off! Don't want to keep them in the run all the time.
So I've had a couple of silkies for about 3 weeks now and I've been keeping them in a coop with an attached run, I would love to start letting them out to free range now and again when I am home, but I'm worried bout not being able to catch them or that they won't go back in, what does everyone...
I bought two hybrid hens a few months back, 2 speckled and 1 bluebell, one of the speckled and the bluebell is laying and have been for a while but the other speckled isn't, I'm pretty sure she isn't laying outside either as I've literally looked every so many times, when the other two are...
my chickens live in a coop with an attached run, I will attach a photo below, my three silkies are little devils and love to scratch the grass, but the grass is slowly disappearing and becoming horrible smelly mud, I originally thought it was smelly because obviously that's where they go to the...