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    Please help with any info

    I took my 6 yr old silkie to the vet because she was falling sideways when she walks. Vet ran two cultures of her stool which was loose, couldn't find any thing wrong, checked her over and gave me two doses of some type of wormer for the diahhrea in ten day increments. That has been twelve days...
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    Rhode Island Red breaking her eggs

    I have one silkie roo 4 silkie hens and two Rhode Island hens, they have a very nice indoor coop and screen outdoor run,We have our farm on the market and cannot let them out into my garden which they use to do. One of then Rhode Island reds is laying an egg each day and breaking it, what is...
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    Sad day on the farm

    We couldn't find the 9 month old silkie hen the other eve when we were putting up the chickens, thought maybe a hawk, but I knew the rooster was Dooing his job because I can see the enclosed garden from the house . Searched the garden , used a flashlight to check the small pond, sadly the next...
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    Good morning chicken lovers

    Kentucky waking up here,a lot of the snow will melt today it is going up in the high 40s. I opened all the doors to the chicken coop yesterday but my silkies had No interest in going out..Rhode Island Reds sat on their perches high up in the covered screened porch of the coop.I'm so glad we...
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    No one looking out this morning

    I have 7 silkies one a Roo and two Rhode Island Red hens and no one is looking out of this hen house this morning in Ky.looks like about 3 inches here in lex, ky. I lined the back out their run with straw and covered it with a tarp so they can run around there. Anyone's chickens like to stand...
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    The use of straw in my garden

    I spread a bale i of straw across the top of garden this winter in ky and my chickens just love it. It keeps their feet from standing on the cold hard ground plus I throw a little hay and a few sunflower seeds on top and it keeps them busy all day digging pecking
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    Water outside of the coop

    I have a heater in the chicken coop for the water but my chickens like to go outside in my garden even when it is really cold . I have put straw out for them to walk on and a flake of hay to peck on but any suggestions on water outside? Shoul I just take warm water out to them occasionally ?
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    ⠀ Wintering over my silkies in ky

    I have always used a heat lamp with my silkies and am rethinking this winter . They are enclosed in a chicken house with deep litter and have an area enclosed off the back which is dry, they also run in my fenced garden when it is not raining, do you think they will be able to winter over with...
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