My pekin pullet Marshmallow is 5 months old, and is ridiculously small compared to 9 month old, smaller than pictures of other Pekins her age, her feathers are dull and she acts like she's depressed all the time. She eats drinks and poops normal.
She walks everywhere slowly, except when she has...
My 5 month old silkie pullet isn't walking properly and she had a pasty butt, she can move each leg and wing but when she tries to walk she goes wobbly and falls over, she ate a little food but doesn't seem interested in it. I cleaned up her vent and it doesn't look blocked, what could be wrong?
Compared to the other chicks available, this one looked like a pullet- the other roos had large combs and wattles, but compared to a smooth feather pekin pullet i got from a feed store the frizzle has a very dark red face
I was given a turkey egg that was headed for the garbage and my smallest silkie hen claimed it, i'm just wondering how a turkey will go being raised by a tiny chicken, will it be happy or does it need to be with other turkeys? I probably sound like a flake but I swear i'm not! lol
I was given a turkey egg today, and I was wondering if I put my silkie hens in a box with half a dozen eggs will it entice them to go broody? It's spring here, and the days are hot and humid, am I able to move the box inside the house if it gets too hot, or will that put them off sitting on the...
i have a 2 month old silkie pullet that has had a runny nose and seriously bad breath for 8 days, I gave her some olive oil and rubbed her crop for a while, and put apple cider vinegar and garlic in her water, and vitamins but there has been no change, she smells like old sweaty cheese :/ she's...
This is the first cockeral ive had, 5month silkie cross cockerel Peewee has been trying to get with the hens, he's much smaller than the purebred silkies and tiny compared to my Sussex hens, but he still tries his hardest. Whenever he jumps on their backs and grabs their crests the hens just...
My 10 month old Sussex is sitting by the back door making the most awful racket, it's different to her "bawk-bawk BAWKET" egg bragging song, it more like "bu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-UUUUUK" lol, she's been doing it for about an hour now, it's ridiculously loud, none of the other chooks are making any...
One of my 5 day old silkies is twitching her head involuntarily, when I put water in front of her she tried to drink it but the twitching made it difficult, and she put her whole face in the water instead of just her beak, she takes a few sips then sits with her head tilted up and swallows like...
I started ivomec, 5 ml in 1 litre of water, a week ago, but today I found a chook poop with a long, sort of clear round worm in it, still moving, no idea which chook it's from, and to make matters worse one of my other chooks ate it when I went inside to get paper towel. Do I have the dosage...
Posting for a friend, 2 of her ducks have died, one is very sick, they initially thought it might have been Lyme disease or botchulism, but she found a climbing plant with red berries next to the pen that looks like Brazilian nightshade, we have been unable to find any information on how it...
I bought 3 day-old production layers to put under my broody Silkie, and she has happily sat on them for a week. Sadly one of them died, so we bought a blue/splash(? not sure of colour) day old silkie chick, and a white day old Silkie chick. The broody hen accepted the splash, but hates the white...
i have a week old rir chick, she is always standing with her eyes closed and cheeping, she wont drink much, but shes eating a little, her rear is covered in green poop, i washed it away but it came back, she's always trying to snuggle under my hands like shes cold, so i put a lamp on their cage...
My 1 year old Silkie hen has stopped laying, she is losing feathers and looks very thin, she doesn't seem lethargic and she is eating drinking and pooping normal, any ideas what may be wrong with her?
i forgot to ask the lady i bought them off
thats Buffy
and thats Amy
the hens are a bit smaller than sussex hens, there were black, buff and white with black feathers around their neck, and the big buff rooster had an enormous comb and wattles. they have green eyes, the hens had...
ive been hearing a bit about beak sexing silkies, apparently roos have more hook shaped beaks and wider bases and pullets have slimmer, curvey beaks. ive googled it and found next to no info, so im challenging everyone here to test the theory! post some photos of your silkies beaks, a side on...
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[=http://pinterest.com/pin/34762228344603544][/]This is Kevin, who has a deceiving name because we think she is a girl, we hope so anyway as our real estate agent is strict on the no rooster rule, but after a...