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    My chicks Hatched (bought from Bobbi Porto) Always nice chicks

    Very nice looking chicks! I am jealous!
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    My Silkies are here!

    I got my white silkie chicks on Thursday also. I didn't count toes as I had class all day today 4 hours away and didn't get a chance to mess much with them yesterday but put them in the brooder to get them warm. They sent me 5 LOVELY red male chicks for warmth, have no idea what they are but...
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    Do Silkies need extra care in winter?have you had success with corid?

    I would spray the wounds with iodine/betadine if you have some. As for silkies, they won't survive very well out in the cold without an enclosed area up off of the ground where they are not walking in snow and water. I have mine in my chicken house and they are on bricks on the floor but i put...
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    I'm scared for my silkie!

    We have nesting boxes in our chicken house that are about 5 feet high. When our chicks are little, we run a board out from one of them so they can walk up it until they learn to fly. I don't have any silkies loose where they can lay in there as all of mine are in pens but when they were loose...
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    shipping pricing for ideal

    Shelly, I did too but that's what my invoice says also. $7 plus $1. I will know on Friday when I get my white silkies in.
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    White Silkies

    I might be interested, where at in Oklahoma?
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    So, what got you into rasin' yer own chickens?

    My son's first year in 4-H we decided to hatch our own eggs. My husband discouraged me because he tried as a kid with much fail. He found out after several tries, his thermometer was wrong but not the same luck for my son and I. We always had successful hatches and our first was 17/18 eggs...
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    Please help me!!! Found my chicken hanging!! She's still alive.

    I can't imagine the headache that they would have from the blood rushing to their head for hours. We have had several roosters get caught on chickenwire and find them hanging upside down. We have only lost one that way but it is pretty horrific when you walk in your chicken house and see a...
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    Cackle vs McMurray vs Ideal

    TiffInMO I would try cackle next time since you are in Missouri. I had extremely nice chicks yesterday and as of an hour ago, they were still going strong, two with the pasties but hopefully I have that worked out.
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    Hello from Kansas City,MO.

    Hello from SE Kansas! I actually just acquired some birds from up your way two weeks ago. Our neighbors had some relatives that had a couple of "roosters" that they could not keep in their backyard in Shawnee. They asked if we would take them. I really do not need anymore roos, I think I...
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    Worm help (with gross picture) and weird dander question

    Looks like an ascaris to me. Do you have any feed or farm stores open nearby today? Ask your vet or someone else on here once mentioned giving them Ivermectin in their water for scaly legs, that would take care of the worms too.
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    medication

    Depends on the medication, they all have different withdrawal times. You can google the name of the medication with withdrawal times right after it and there is one site that tells the medication withdrawal times in humans and all animals.
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    Chicken weak, lost weight, pale comb

    The pale color would make me think she is anemic but that is the nurse in me probably. Could she have coccidia? You said she was having some blood in her stools, I know when we have calves that have bloody stools we gave them amprolium I believe. Then again, might be worms. Anyone else...
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    My hen has a yellow looking eye?

    My hen's eye appears wild, almost like maybe she has went blind. The iris is not brown anymore but more of a gold color and she really looks like she is staring or spaced out. She's an older bird, been free ranging but lately she hangs out in the chicken house. When I throw food down, she...
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    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    We do the cozy coupe brooders. We ordered our first one from Strombergs then made our own. I like them a lot for silkies. They are made out of cat litter covered pans. Have a plexiglas door on them and you take one of the old porcelain light kits that you used to see in old houses and...
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