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    bit bald!

    A little while ago a fox came and took most (all but two) of my girls, one big and one silkie survived. My big girl had bunches of bald spots where it took her feathers. I have been looking at her and under her chest around to the top of her legs now looks like she has been plucked - I haven't...
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    Are they really THAT cunning?

    Are foxes really that cunning? I went out last week for an hour in the middle of the day. I took my dogs with me for the drive and all my girls were in my enclosed back garden eating away. When I came back four of them were gone, two remained – one silkie and one big girl. I have a gate which...
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    Will they bully her.

    Yesterday afternoon I went out for an hour, in that time whilst my girls were in my enclosed back garden a predator (presuming a fox) came in and took three of my four girls. One survived. She has lost some feathers but otherwise seems to be ok. She clearly needs some friends and I have found...
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    Do Roosters still 'squat'?

    One of my silkies has started crowing - but you know when you walk up to your girls and they squat down with their wings out for you to pat them (guessing they think I am a ro), well this Silkie is still doing that - is he a she? Is this normal? Thank you!
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    SOMEone crowed in the silkie family...

    I have three silkies and one has started making the gurgling crowing noises, I don't know who as they don't do it when I can SEE them! What I would like to know please is... Are two hens enough for a silkie? I have five big girls as but the Silkies won't leave their run when I open it out he...
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    Wonderful vet in Sydney Australia

    Not sure if this is the right place to put this but wanted to let everyone in Sydney Australia know that there is a totally WONDERFUL vet at Pittwater Animal Hospital called Bryn who just saved my chickens (sooty) lifeI I noticed the other day that she was all puffed up and she wasn’t as keen...
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    can silkies get too fat?

    I have three silkies, one grown up and two babies - who seem to have a simply endless appetite! I feed them in a bowl each morning (they don't like to eat from the ground!) and they then have another one at lunchtime when everyone has a snack and then another one before they go to bed - mind...
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    separate bedrooms?

    Hello! I have three silkies and five big girls - the silkies live in a house and run of their own in the back garden and the big girls free range - they spend a bit of time around the silkies run as they can come and go as they please, they seem to like each other through the fence. If I let...
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    Thank you for the idea!

    My silkies live in an aviary and I have tarps around the open sides at night to keep them warm, they have woodshavings and hay on the floor and a roosting box but I kept worrying they would be cold when winter arrived. After reading this forum I decided to buy them a small dog kennel and put...
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    Why did my silkie die suddenly?

    I have two silkies and I just love them. Yesterday the garden man came and mowed our back garden (they have a house and run in there), usually they put themselves in their house in disgust. I looked, saw Fizzy and assumed Coco was next to her; they are always together - until later in the...
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    amputation?

    Well, It looks to me like there is a bit of bone sticking out the side of Wonkys toe which my horse trod on - we are off to the vet today but they were talking about possible amputation of the toe - is that too traumatic for a chicken? I kind of hoped it could heal around it and to get...
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    squashed toe

    My girls free range and I also have a horse who is extremely sweet, but by accident yesterday she caught one of the girls (Wonky) toes under her hoof as she turned to follow me - now the toe is a bit flattened, Wonky is in the cat cage with food and water and is standing on it and talking like...
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    How active are you silkies?

    I have two - they are about a month or six weeks apart in age - when we got our first one, the lady was returning her as they thought she was going to die, so we took her - she was flat in the box and we also thought she was going to die, but we fed and watered her and the next day she was round...
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    laying silkie

    Much to my delight my silkie has started laying eggs! Having read various posts I didn't really expect them to (I have two fluffies). What I would like to know, is, will it happen for long? It seems that everyone says they are not regular layers and that they are a broody type - she has laid for...
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    About keeping a Rooster...

    Apologies if this has been asked somewhere else, I have looked but can't find information.... Onslow, who was attacked by the dog and survived has turned into a very handsome and friendly rooster - he (now) has been crowing for a week but only first thing in the mornings. What I would like...
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    Seems she is a he....

    ...so despite taking Onslow back to the chicken man when she was younger and him laughing at me and insisting she was a girl, and despite her being attacked by a dog and us going off to the vet who didn't notice she WASNT a girl (one of her wounds was round her bottom area) Onslow crowed this...
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    URGENT HELP PLEASE!

    My Onslow (the sweetest chicken around) was just attacked by a dog - she has an open wound towards the bottom half of her side, I know you say taking them to the vet kills them but surely this calls for a visit? What else can I do? Any suggestions on treatment? She is my most tame of the girls...
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    Sore leg - what do I do?

    Walter has a sore leg - I don't know how she did it but yesterday she was limping a little bit, by the end of the day (they free range) she was sitting more than moving about with the others but still eating and quite happy in herself. Today I have left them all in, I can't see what is wrong...
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    Could she be a he?

    I have three chickens, two are younger and one of them, today, stopped 'tweeting' but now sounds a bit like a duck - I don't recall that happening before....I did have her sexed but now am worried she may be a he... I really really like her, she is so friendly and curious.
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    Why won't they bathe?

    I have two silkies who are lovely - they sleep in an aviary at night and have a fenced off grassy run during the day - I have made them two sand baths - one is in their preferred hanging out area and one around the side of the aviary with a plant for shade. I filled them with sand from my...
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