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    Ended Contest #3 Cutest Baby Fowl - 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    I don't see how to upload photo....
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    stopped eating and drinking!

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    stopped eating and drinking!

    Nutrena Layer feed
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    stopped eating and drinking!

    I forgot to mention raw egg in his tube feeding mixture, I have been putting that in each time as well. As far as head trauma, I did not see any visible damage or feather pulling that would indicate that. He is pooping and his crop is emptying each time I feed him. For the first couple of...
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    stopped eating and drinking!

    I used safeguard goat wormer as well just in case he may have had either round or tape and I saw no expelling of them in his poop, but good idea! He was not bony, but is light as he is only 5 months old.
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    stopped eating and drinking!

    I have a 5 month old red silkie rooster that has been vaccinated for marek's virus as a chick, and he has stopped eating and drinking. I treated for coccidia, checked for mites and poultry lice. It appears he may have been bullied when I put him and his siblings into my juvenile coop with a...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Silkie

    I have handled mine from the very beginning, whether I hatched them or got them as chicks. They do go through at "teenage" stage where they freak out no matter what when you try to pick them up or hold them. Just keep it up, and give them treats like sweet corn and melon so they start to relate...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Silkie

    I do keep one in the house as a pet! She stays in my laundry room most of the time, but I have an outside playpen for her when I am out too.
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Silkie

    I got my first three silkies at TSC of all places! Simply pet quality, but just loved them! All three were taken be a hawk the following fall and I became somewhat preoccupied with getting more. I do have more now, and have been hatching eggs from my own silkies. Once again, pet quality but...
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    Hole in the ground and two dead chickens

    Central Indiana
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    Hole in the ground and two dead chickens

    We have figured out that it is Norway rats! So all the chickens have been cooped up for the weekend with several traps set and tomcat poison boxes out. Hopefully we can get a handle on this before I lose anymore chickens. I found a silkie egg that had been rolled out of the nesting box, down...
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    Hole in the ground and two dead chickens

    Plan on doing that today. There were some feathers here and there, but no blood at all. The head was not wet, but the chick was still alive and could barely keep consciousness.
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    Hole in the ground and two dead chickens

    This summer I have lost 2 birds. 1 an adult silkie rooster and the other a 7 week old white sultan. Both in different coops and both were found on top of a hole in the ground that was not there 12 hours earlier. The hole is barely large enough for a ground squirrel and the interior of the...
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    Thanks for all the advice I received on hatching!

    Thanks to everyone who replied to my threads about incubating and hatching! Over the last 36 hours we had 6 of 7 eggs hatch out healthy little peepers!
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    Wiggling eggs!

    Thank you so much! The turner was set to turn off during the night tonight, so I went ahead and turned it off now just in case.
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