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    Impacted crop for over over a week!

    sorry to hear your girl is going through this. and it must be very frustrating for you also, i have had these situations and you just feel helpless. i really don't know what other advice i can give you, i am new to chickens myself and from what i have read - you are doing all the things you...
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    Help please: symptoms listed, need opinions!

    UPDATE - Yesterday morning she did not look good. She went from semi perky to very lethargic, head under her wing, and very runny diarrhoea. all the other chicks were fine. After a few hours trying to hunt down an avian vet that was not fully booked, and this proved to be unsuccessful, i...
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    Help please: symptoms listed, need opinions!

    thanks for your reply terrie, i actually haven't isolated her yet. we watch them alot (there are 7 of them) and there is never any noticeable bullying going on, so i guess my answer is no. she has always been one to muscle in if she wants something, and she has always been the loudest chirper...
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    Help please: symptoms listed, need opinions!

    Hi all, Our 10 week old white silkie seems a bit off colour. About 3 weeks ago our 14 week old silkie died quite suddenly after a quick onset of very bad diarrhoea. Since then we have dosed them all on Sulpha D, and they have multi vitamin in their water all the time, and every 2 days a natural...
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    Webbed toes!

    We bought a new baby over the weekend, she's actually an Araucana but with some silkie through her and is the palest lavender blue colour, with silkie type fluff, bare legs, and is starting to grow some ear muffs. and her two end toes are webbed! she is clearly an odd one but she's very cute...
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    What color are we?

    1 definitely looks like our baby, who is 7 weeks old now, and she is turning out to be the palest blue/grey (you can only tell it's not white when she's up against our other white silkie), and she has splashes of buff. very pretty! so could be similar to that? 3 looks white, 4 looks like it...
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    Crop Questions - sorry for the repetition

    Thank you SO MUCH seachick, that's really informative, just what i needed. i have been scrolling through pages and pages of information, you know how it is, it's so hard not to get confused and freaked out by it all. i didn't even know what a crop was until i came on here! glad i know now, we...
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    Crop Questions - sorry for the repetition

    I apologise, I have done searches but i just want a couple of very straight forward answers, as the more i read the more confused i get (being a first time owner and all, i read into everything like it's an abnormality with the more knowledge i gain), so would like to know from you fabulous...
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    HELP! Watery poo and lethargy!

    um, bit late now! i went to the bird place and asked if it was needed aswell as the feed, i was advised no. plus, she was 14 weeks old. cocci isn't the only thing that we can lose a chicken to suddenly, we had a heatwave that lasted 3 days, i have been advised that it probably just didn't cope...
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    HELP! Watery poo and lethargy!

    Well she made it through the night, just barely though, and is now on her last breath and practically rigor mortis already. RIP Gus
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    HELP! Watery poo and lethargy!

    thanks so much unicorn, i have been investigating your AMAZING collation of useful info, and it appears to be polyuria. We have had several days of ongoing very hot weather, although they are in our bathroom and the temp has been very comfortable in there. they are not ranging yet, and there...
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    HELP! Watery poo and lethargy!

    Hi everyone, Well we have all been doing well until late this afternoon – Our 11 week old silkie has taken a bad turn and we’re not sure what to do. She is doing watery, almost pale yellow poo (it's pure liquid) and is very lethargic. The last few days I noticed that her tail was not as fluffy...
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    What sex do you think these are?

    thanks again everyone. chickenlady, i am on your side with jude! but maybe because i just really, really want to convince myself she is not a roo. but jude is very, very quiet and passive and not vocal at all. she's curious, but not bold in any way. audrey's behaviours are more roo like IMO...
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    What sex do you think these are?

    thanks a bunch people. yes they are a very cute group! as for the brooder, it's quite sizeable and they can't be outside alone yet because they are still small enough to be picked off by predators. so they stay in at night, and go on supervised ranges during the day. they are very happy and...
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    What sex do you think these are?

    Hi there fellow chicken fans! My husband and i are brand new to the chicken thing, we just adore our 6 feathered friends! Like many of you though, we are dreading the possibility that one or more of our 'girls' may be little roos, as we aren't able to keep one should it happen. So would love...
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