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    silkies in the winter

    I got my first silkies this last summer and so therefore my first winter with them. they seem so fragile I worried about the cold and how they would handle it. they did super so far. Even thriogh this terrible sub zero week with wind chills down to -45 Reg temp regularly at sub zero for a...
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    feather loss...Can a chicken molt in December?

    I am glad to hear that the molt can happen in the dead of winter. It has been an unbelievably cold winter here in wisconsin and I never remember my birds molting at this time. It looks kind of splotchy and I will treat them with some lice pwd tomorrow just to be safe -- but suspect it is a...
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    Do chickens like water?

    My silkies love a bath -- settle right into warm water the few times I tried it. but the regular hens hate it! In fact I turn on a small sprinkler when they free range to keep them away from my unfenced gardens. Works beautifully!
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    strawberries

    can I feed my bird strawberries
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    Silkie Chick Care... too young to bathe?

    Oh my goodness All this Bathing stuff I had no idea! I just couldn't wait to get my silkies and have 5 and just love them!~ today was the first day I noticied a little poo on the roo so thought about washing them. Feet could use it also. they have never been bathed so i guess I can expect...
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    new to silkies -- crowing

    Do silkie males crow? mine have not yet but all my other breeds at the same age are. they are about 5 months old. I am trying to figure out what sex I have. I now have 3 white and 2 blk and love them so much. I am even consider breeding them cause I had such a hard time getting them of good...
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    silkies

    Hi all! I am quite new to all of you but am re-enterting my old hobby of raising chickens. I left with a broken heart about 2 yrs ago this summer when a weasle or fox took out almost my entire group of 30 beloved birds in 1 afternoon. I had birds for 3 years with not 1 preditor problem -- even...
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    Wishes for you

    May all our messages in 2011 be happpy ones. Happy N. y
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    ??? Blood in poop, 2 year old hen, mid-winter molt ????

    I have expierence in this one . blood in pooh usually means eith cocci or round worms. Neither is really bad unless you let it go too long. There are meds for both . Get them ___meds--into birds asap or you will have a decrease in eggs and it will spread and become more serious. Then when all...
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    Please...my pet chicken is eggbound...time is of the essence

    Opps -- I just noticed how old the thread from Lusty was. Oh well. I am the new kid still trying to figure things out!!
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    Please...my pet chicken is eggbound...time is of the essence

    Oh my goodness--I am new to this forum. I was practically in tears as I continued to read this thread. Such caring people - and Lusty -I cannot imagine how horrable it must have been at the end-- yes I can. I have 25 mixed chickens ( gong on my 3rd year) and love every one of them.. Each...
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    whipworms!

    Help! I am really new to this forum but need help from everyone and -or anyone with some feedback on this. I have been treating my birds with amprolium -corid 9.6 for 2 weeks for cocci-- cause there was blood in birds droppings. all chicken friends thought that it was cocci as well. I got...
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    **verdict in post 64* ANOTHER UPDATE POST 101 101

    Oh my gosh. This sounds so awful I have grown children ,and now grandchildren and we hurt more than they do when they are in pain dont we? Hang on to the ol advice that "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger." You and your son will grow so much stronger when this is all said and done...
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    Never Thought I'd See One Of These.....Egg w/in a Egg (Pics)

    Mine had a yolk in both eggs--That was what was so weird and eggs-citing!! That same bird layed an egg every day of her life at exactly 6:30 every morning can you believeit? She died at about 2yrs old though and I feel like she was probably just worn out . She always always layed the biggest...
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    Never Thought I'd See One Of These.....Egg w/in a Egg (Pics)

    I had the exact same thing happen to me. everyone I knew at work were taking photos with their cell phones.! Wasn't it weird when you tried to carefully crack it open expecting to see mayb 3 yolks cause sooooo lge? I was very confused cause my fingers kept feeling something hard inside and of...
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