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Hi all I’m very worried about my modern game bird, I’ve got a mycroplasma positive flock. My game bird verity does sometimes flare up when she gets stressed I noticed today her breathing is heavy and she is sneezing (no discharge though) she also laid a soft shelled egg which she never has...

Hello I’m hoping you will all be able to share you knowledge with me. One of my young silkies has been laying very soft eggs, she started laying last summer. the eggs have the most thin shell and brown specks (I’ve attached a photo) yesterday the egg came out in bits because the shell is so...

Hello I was hoping someone might be able to offer some advice or their opinion. My 3 year old silkie dropping this morning is a bit green and it looks like pellets (although they are soft not solid) . I’m not sure if I need to take her to the vet or if if there is something I should be trying...

Hi all I hope you could help me with your opinions and advice on my lovely elderly girl violet. She’s between 10-12 years old, I noticed this morning she had blood coming from her vent, I cleaned her up and when I had a feel inside on the left of her vent is a large mass, it feels like half a...

I’ve posted before about my elderly hen violet, she’s had sour crop this week and after a visit to the vet who emptied it has had a thick sludgy dough like crop which will not empty. I think she now has a pendulous crop and quite severe diarrhoea. She is really not doing well and I don’t know...

Hi all I recently posted about my really unwell Silkie who I’m not sure is going to pull through, we’re at a loss as to what is wrong but one thing I’m worried about is vitamin deficiency or if I’ve done something wrong with their diet. I wondered if anybody would let me know their thoughts...

My 9 months old Silkie has been Broodie for the last 3 weeks, I kept taking her out of the coop but she had lost a fair amount of weight. Yesterday was the first day she was not broody. This morning she has come out of the coop unable to stand she keeps tipping backwards on her feet and is...

I’ve realised I’ve made a really big mistake by using play sand in the Dustbath, I thought it would be safer for the hens but I caught one of my silkies eating the sand. She’s now got an impacted crop I’ve been using olive oil and massage it’s gone down a tiny bit but not massively. She’s touch...

Hi all As always everybody is so helpful here so I’m looking for any advice in regards to my elderly hen. We think violet is about 12 she was 8 when I got her and I’ve had her just over 4 years. I think she is slightly arthritic and she was in the vet last week with sour crop. She hasn’t...

Hi all I’m hoping for some advice, I was away on holiday for 3 days and the night I was not home a fox attempted to get into my run (I’ve never seen a rod in 10 years here and I think a neighbour has been feeding them in the garden) luckily my mum saw and chased it away but watching back on...

Hello I’m sorry if I’m repeating a question but can’t specifically find an answer. I’m getting a few new hens, I’ve had the worst luck in the past after foolishly buying from what I thought was a reputable breeder, the hens had suspected mycroplasma and two of them died and the rest of my...

My 1 year old Silkie was absolutely fine this morning she was up in the nest box and an hour later when I went to check her she was down but completely unable to stand, it’s like she can’t balance herself she’s wobbling forwards and backwards and falls flat on her face when she tries to walk...

My 1 year old Silkie today has started star gazing, however she only goes it for about a second or 2 and is eating and drinking but keeps looking up at the sky maybe every couple of minutes. I’m wondering if she has wry neck however she has also started to peck the air and I don’t know if this...

I lost a hen suddenly on Friday with no cause of death yet established. When I first got my silkies within 24 hours I had a mycroplasma outbreak and one died. One was in the vet on Wednesday with laboured breathing, another hen has diarrhoea and laboured breathing and the other is sneezing. My...

I don’t know if anybody can advise my lovely 8 month Silkie Dottie died today. She was as far as I could see absolutely fine she had been broody but other than that no illness. I checked her at 8pm she was fine this morning at 6:30am I found her slumped in the corner of the coop when I picked...

Hello My 7 month old Silkie started laying last month, I’m not sure if she began laying too young. She laid an egg last night and was fine this morning she was fluffed up and it looked like her breathing was laboured with her tail up and down, she wouldn’t eat and her crop had not fully...

Hi I was hoping you could all offer me some advice (again!) my young silkies are coming up to 5 months old. I’ve noticed today one of them has been in the nest box she’s picking up bedding and throwing it behind her and sitting on it, her vent is pulsating quite a bit and she’s squarking very...

I’m hoping somebody could please help me. I’ve always had ex battery hens and I’ve recently (3 weeks ago) acquired silkies. They were hatched end of January so around 12 weeks. The breeder told me that they fed them on layers so it was fine to feed them layers. I’ve done so for the 3 weeks but...

Hello I acquired some 16 week old Silkie hens today. As jve always had ex batteries I think I’m always panicking about poorly hens. One of the hens when she was eating suddenly did like an S shape with her neck, her head didn’t move at all and it was like the base of her neck was moving. She’s...

Some of you may have seen my recent posts about sick hens in my flock. A sample showed a small amount of coccidiosis eggs which has made my older girls very sick. They are now on treatment. However Agatha this evening is struggling to stand falling over etc. I do not know if this is related to...