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    5.5 week old polish sexing?

    Here are my 5 polish chicks. They hatched out on February 26th. They have some sores on their faces i noticed today was the cause of the plastic triangle chick feeder I was using and have since taken it out. I tried to get a face as well as a side profile picture. They are very skiddish and...
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    Lice

    Thank you. I'll treat him again this coming weekend and that will be 3 treatments with permithrin. After this will it be safe to move him with the hens or should I keep him separate longer?
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    Lice

    He is not in my coop or with my hens. He is in a cage about 2 feet away from my chicken run. I did go ahead and poultry dust everything anyways.
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    Lice

    I picked up a new rooster about 2 weeks ago and he had lice. Atleast 1 so I'm sure more. I poultry dusted him last week with permitrin. And this week I sprayed him with a permithrin 10 mixed at the rate of 1.28 oz x 1 gallon like the instructions stated. How many more treatments do I need to do...
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    Guess the silkie gender.

    Yes 2 was a rooster The others were hens I found that the ones with an upside down u were rooster and the ones with a upside down v comb were hens
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    Mites?

    The other day I noticed mites running around on the wood of the run after inspecting i found some more in the coop and on the climbing roosts in the run. I have sprayed everything with permithrin. But could these mites be harmess? I read that red roost mites hide in the cracks and at night...
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    Help me with sexing silkies

    I can try. Only the black and white that I have has a wide comb that's starting to bump up
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    Help me with sexing silkies

    Hi. I know it's not 100% with guessing the sex of a silkie. But here are my birds all are around 3 months old. Some have dried food in their feathers and I'll never give fermented feed to a silkie again lol. I'm pretty sure my black and white is a roo and my buff is a hen. But what about the...
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    Guess the silkie gender.

    I have 4 silkie chicks I'm trying to guess the gender on. I'm new to silkies and any tips on sexing would be great as well. #1 yellow partridge 7.5 weeks #2 Black and white 7.5 weeks #3 Grey and black 6.5 weeks old #4 Darker partridge with Grey's 6.5 weeks
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    7 week old silkie hen or roo?

    These 2 are 7 weeks old. I'm guessing yellow Patridge is hen and black and white is a little roo. What do yall think?
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    My roosters acting weird

    I treated with safegaurd for worms. He ate some more egg and I did get a few pieces of feed into his mouth earlier but not much. I can try the corrid but he isn't letting me syringe liquids just the goey egg onto his beak. He had another poop a little while ago. The blackness is the bottom of...
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    My roosters acting weird

    Sorry here it is
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    My roosters acting weird

    I treated everyone for worms twice in September. One of my hens had round worm. Crop isn't full. It's empty. He finally had a significant sized poop this morning. This is a picture with the flash on. Still not eating on his own My husband is helping me the best we can. His comb and waddles...
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    My roosters acting weird

    The supplement I'm going has b1 b2 and b6
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    My roosters acting weird

    He isn't eating or drinking on his own. I'm syringe feeding him multiple times a day started last night. I'm feeding him Raw egg and rooster booster. I'm also trying to syringe feed him wet food. He has a water bowl and food bowl with him at all times but he not touching it. His crop is not full.
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