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    Help with 5 month old hen regurgitating constantly after eating or drinking.

    She's never been treated for worms but she's not had a chance to go outdoors yet as we had a very long winter and she was brought in for the mite treatment before the fellow chicks had their first time outside. She was in with some older chickens as well who could have passed it on I suppose but...
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    Help with 5 month old hen regurgitating constantly after eating or drinking.

    This started about two weeks ago after she was seperated from flock to treat for a bad mite infection. Thought she was just drinking too much as some chickens do but even controlling how often and how much she drinks she still regurgitates several times a day. Usually 30-60 min after she eaten...
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    Treating severe mite infestation in Canadian winter?

    I can get neet oil and sulfur powder, are they used both on the bird and the coop or one or the other? Ivermectin is a little more difficult to get but I'll call around to our farm supply stores in the city and see if any of them have some in stock.
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    Treating severe mite infestation in Canadian winter?

    Had a chicken that we thought had wry neck disease from vitamin deficiency as its something we dealt with before but during one of her feedings I noticed a small red thing crawling over her eye. Checked through her feathers and turns out she is absolutely infested with mites/lice. And if she is...
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    Spraddle leg, wry neck or both?

    So I had a heat spike early in incubation period that took out most of my eggs but somehow miraculously two managed to somehow make it and hatched out Wednesday night. But I've got a two day old chick here who can't stand and holds her neck over her back. I've dealt with wry neck before in older...
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    Questions about shipped eggs

    Thank you for your reply! I measured the temperature on top of the eggs and it ranged from 38.1-38.3 depending on how far from the center I measured so I think that seems okay. The incubator is wrapped in Styrofoam and then sheets outside of that to help keep the temp stable because it is quite...
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    Questions about shipped eggs

    Hello all! Usual newbie incubating nervousness questions here! So I got a new moving air incubator and shipped eggs for the first time and wanted to do this in the best way possible for highest chance at hatching. Did the cold water temp test with a food thermometer to measure incubator temp...
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Ben and Klaus experienced their first snow today! They did better than most of our new chickens, a bunch jumped in the snow and then refused to move again so we have been doing rescue trips throughout the day. The first was my poor silkie cross Apollo. She is usually pretty flighty but she...
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Okay I reread their breed page and they mentioned having satins in the same pen as the silkies so that's probably it! We are hoping to start breeding him in the spring time with our other silkies before they get too broody! We already have several family members requesting silkie eggs.
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    We keep going back and forth on Ben because she still hasn't crowed or laid eggs yet so we are not committed to her being a hen or rooster yet. The hatchery we got them from doesn't mention frizzled silkies at all so I'm thinking he's just in an awkward grow out or unique? He has fluffed up...
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Does anyone else have scraggly silkies? Most of ours are black or white and have the normal looks and feathering expected of silkies but then we got our two mystery scragglemuffin silkies. Picture one is of Ben who is starting to soften up but her feather texture still feels different than our...
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    Weird lump on chickens foot?

    I first noticed this lump a few days ago though at the time I just thought it was one of my chickens toes because she kicks a lot whenever I try to check her feet, finally got a good look last night and no idea what this is. She is a brahma so hard to get a good look between all the feathers. My...
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    Can chickens recover from neck injuries?

    Thank you for your reply! Avian vet in my area currently are not taking new patients but I will be stopping by the store later to pick up the Vitamin E, Selenium and Vitamin B Complex. Right now she's only on the poly-visol every second day, one quarter of the 1ml syringe with some water for...
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    14wk silkie and polish cross, boys or girls?

    Aw no, the middle three are such cuddle bugs I was hoping they were hens. What about them points to cockerels? Their colouring? Feathering? Would like to know what to look for in our other mixes.
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    14wk silkie and polish cross, boys or girls?

    Hello, new to the whole chicken raising thing but a few months ago I managed to hatch quite a few babies out of my little incubator but still not sure how many boys and girls are in the bunch. The mothers are pure bred silkie and pure bred polish hens and the father is likely to be our dominant...
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