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    Bantam hen with loose brown stool

    Thanks everyone for your responses! I will try to answer the questions, but don't think this is coccidosis as the little gal is spunky, active and laying eggs daily. Although these are some of my first chickens, so I'm not an expert! Just as an FYI and a fun tidbit, the little Old English...
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    Bantam hen with loose brown stool

    Healthy little 22oz Old English Game Bantam with loose brown, smelly stools. She just started laying about 2 months ago and has laid an egg a day. My question, can I put her and her companion on Medicated Chick Starter for a couple of weeks. It seems like the safest course of action since...
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    1 yr old Silkie Bantam Broody or Sick?

    Is it possible that a chicken would act that way if they ate something mildly toxic? Who knows what they're eating when they're out in my gardens I have lots and lots of flowers
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    1 yr old Silkie Bantam Broody or Sick?

    Thank you for your reply, yes it is odd behavior and because she's eating and drinking and has formed stools and she's not wheezing or anything like that , i'm going to assume it's the heat, she still acting off this morning in the cool of the morning. Yes she has lots of shade and cool water...
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    1 yr old Silkie Bantam Broody or Sick?

    My little Silkie lays between 3 and 4 eggs a wk... laid one today so she's not egg bound. And I collect them every day. It's been in the 90's everyday, and in the past four weeks I have added four chicks thkat are almost her size now. Sometimes she just stops pecking around for food and it...
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    What are my teeny Bantams?

    I bought two teeny weenie chicks from local feed store that didn't know what they were other than bantams. They had come in as assorted Bantam chicks. I believe one is a black breasted red old English game chicken and I'm hoping the other one is a Japanese bantam. It's a little black fluffy...
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    First Time Chicken Mother!! 9 wk old Silkie Bantie cockerels FIGHTING!! What do I do?!!!

    2 of my little Silkie Bantie babies started serious fighting today and I don't know what to do! They had been facing off for a couple of weeks and jumping in the air at each other with their hackels up; but them seemed to get distracted. But today I heard the fight from my deck and scurried...
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