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    Bantam Silkie chicken flopping and convulsing... HELP. What do I do??

    I do not know. She was roaming in an enclosed area on small gravel. The only thing she might have pecked at was something in the gravel. The confusing thing is that I do not know if it could have been Marek's disease since she started displaying symptoms 4 days after being removed from the coop...
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    Bantam Silkie chicken flopping and convulsing... HELP. What do I do??

    She just passed. I do not know what happened, and I called vets and they were unhelpful. She was curled on her side with her beak open struggling to breathe. Then she would randomly flap, but that only happened once before she lost the energy to. I think her eyes were becoming grey-ish, so I am...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    I am so so sorry. I just lost my favorite chicken, a beautiful silkie, about an hour ago. I do not know what happened, or how she died. She was perfectly fine earlier today and I went to check on her and she was seizing, rocking from side to side, and unable to breathe. I do not know what...
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    Bantam Silkie chicken flopping and convulsing... HELP. What do I do??

    My bantam silkie who is 5 months old is convulsing and flopping around gasping for air. It is on its side in a ball and can't breathe or stand. It was perfectly fine today. It had fresh water, food, and an insulated coop. I recently brought it to live at my house. It had been living in a large...
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    HELP!!! Silkie chick stuck in egg for 72+ hours but still alive

    I was able to help him out of the shell successfully. It was very tedious work, but he did come out today. He was very very weak and around his umbilical cord, there was weird mushy stuff. After about ten minutes of being outside of the shell, his breathing slowed and he stopped chirpping. He...
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    HELP!!! Silkie chick stuck in egg for 72+ hours but still alive

    Attached is a photo of the egg. It seems sick, but it is moving. I do not know how it has lived this long. I tried assisting the egg and have read all about it, but the shell has been too tough to break pieces off of. Should I cull the chicken??
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    HELP!!! Silkie chick stuck in egg for 72+ hours but still alive

    Hi. I have been incubating eggs. 14 fertile eggs were expected for hatching. So far, it has been 6 days since the first chick hatched. 7 of the 14 eggs hatched over a 4 day period. On the second or third day this particular egg pipped. Then I noticed the membrane turning a greenish brownish...
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