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    Help! Silkie not walking and diarrhea.

    Thank you! I know this is serious and it has me so worried about what it could be! I feel horrible I don’t want him so suffer. I’m worried about the rest of my birds.
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    Help! Silkie not walking and diarrhea.

    im new to this raising chicken thing and i have a silkie rooster who I noticed this morning is not walking. Brought him inside and noticed he has smelly diarrhea also. When I brought him in he was eating and drinking normal. I checked his feet and it looks like he has a bad case of scaly leg...
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    Scaly Leg Mites and Now Unable to Stand

    I know this was a long time ago but I might be going through the same thing.. what happened?
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    Silkie feet

    UPDATED PICS. So today I gave my silkie Elvis his first bath ever.. never given a chicken a bath before . The vasaline has made him so dirty. I gave him a bath the water was black.. thought I was doing a good job until I was blow drying him and his legs and under carage are just so greasy.. ‍♀️...
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    Silkie feet

    UPDATE. So I’ve been washing his feet everyday in epsom salt and alternating between vasaline and A&D on his feet and vegetable oil on his legs. I have been doing this for the past 11 days straight. I have him separated in a large dog crate cage with a sod grass bottom so his feet don’t get...
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    Silkie feet

    Tha was a very helpful informative article ! Thank you so much
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    Silkie feet

    Omg! Thank You so much everybody for all the encouragement. Nobody I know immediately knows anything about chickens. Even the ppl at kahoots just told me to google it. The rest of my flock aren’t really showing any signs on there feet. I have 9 chickens two older ones that were given to me from...
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    Silkie feet

    So I did his second soaking today.. his feet were super dirty from him free ranging with vasaline yesterday so in the pictures he is dirty. Sorry it’s really difficult to Hold a chicken and get Pictures of his feet. so he is now in cage so he can keep his feet cleaner. I noticed a huge...
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    Silkie feet

    Wow.. I soaked his feet for as long as he would let me and scrubbed them too then put vasaline.. after touching them and taking a closer look.. it seems like it’s a pretty bad case. I feel so bad I didn’t notice when he was first given to me.. I thought his feet were just dirty because his coop...
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    Duck falling down.

    Ok thanks everyone. She’s doing much better now and is walking around normal I took her out of the corral and she looks good I’m sure she still needs these vitamins so I will be getting these to her ASAP. I really love everyone’s help on here. Thanks again everyone
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    Silkie feet

    I did not quarantine him. How do I know if all the other chickens have what he has. And if I trim the feathers does that hurt them. How do I do it right.
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    Silkie feet

    Do silkie chicken feet usually require cleaning normally or do you think it’s possibly because he does like to hang out in a muddy area in the yard where the ducks are. The coop is pretty clean and he free ranges. Are cutting of the nails also something that’s done. On one of his toes it curls...
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    Silkie feet

    What does that mean? What does that look like.
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    Silkie feet

    When I apply the oil to the feet. Won’t all the dirt stick to the oil and his feet once I let him outside again? And he has mites on his feet? Will then spread to my other chickens or could it have already?
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    Silkie feet

    i was given a silkie hen from a neighbor who was moving a couple months ago. Super friendly and lovable. Turned out to be a rooster. Surprise surprise.. anyways I never owned a silkie and new to owning chickens. He seemed to be walking funny so i looked at his feet. Either they are really dirty...
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