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    Bantam Silkie New Behaviour... HELP?

    Hey there, I’ve got two lovely bantam silkies, a male and a female. Their are just approaching six months old and this morning my hen started acted much differently than usual. She’s been laying on her side and pushing the wood shavings in their pen and is digging in the shavings more than...
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    Silkie with bent toes now looks black and dry! Please help if you’re in Calgary!

    That is so good to see! We were worried that she wouldn’t be able to roost but with the progress we did make with the shoes she seems to be able to perch just fine now! And also very relieved to know that she will more than likely lose the toe naturally and will adapt to it afterwards.
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    Silkie with bent toes now looks black and dry! Please help if you’re in Calgary!

    It has gotten below freezing however they are entirely indoor chickens. They haven’t been exposed to freezing temperatures at all.
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    Silkie with bent toes now looks black and dry! Please help if you’re in Calgary!

    My 2month old female silkie has had deformed feet from her hatching, and we did make them slightly better but they seem to have rotated knuckles that halt our progress. Today I noticed on her worse foot the large toe was black at the end and the nail was as well, similar to charred tissue or...
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    Silkie thread!

    Thanks! Couldn’t get a larger incubator for the amount of eggs we are hatching but the breeder we bought the eggs from said she has the same one and hasn’t had issues as long as you’re there when they hatch so you can take them out once they’ve dried off. How long after they hatch do they...
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    Silkie thread!

    I’m a newbie at raising chickens, and just got six Silkie eggs. I’ve hatched ducks before, but I know this is different. The breeder we got them from told us a minimum of three to five half turns each day, but elsewhere we have read that quarter turns are less jarring on the eggs. Does anyone...
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