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    Silkie with conjuctivitis, help please!!

    Hello friends, I'll try to summarize this challenging experience. Two shipped pullets got lost in the mail, finally arrived days late, one dead and one in critical care end stage dehydration. That was 11/15. It's been 24/7 care with feedings, vitamins, you name it. She had worms, mites, appeared...
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    Help save my flock from Marecks!

    The depressing day has come when I finally have to deal with Marecks. I purchased 2 pullets about 4 weeks ago and had them quarantined in my garage. They had cocci then sour crop, then finally the underlying disease was apparent when they became lame. After homeopathic attempts with colloidal...
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    Aracauna Sexing Help

    Hello all, picked up two aracaunas last minute at the Norco chicken meetup. They were sold last minute in the parking lot as pullets who were a couple of months old. Combs are shanks are inconsistent between them, and it seems I always pick a roo so here they are! Let me know what you think...
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    First time broody cracking eggs and eating babies

    I have a first time broody silkie who has cracked one of her eggs and pecked/eaten the chick. The egg had about 5 days left until hatch. I found the little body as she was furiously pecking it. She has two other eggs she is sitting on. Never had this happen before. :( Do you think it was nature...
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    Respiratory or Canker issue advice needed

    Hello everyone. I have a broody silkie who I happened to catch sneezing rather heavily this week. During the big sneeze I noticed what appeared to be a cheese plug down the back of her throat. I immediately isolated her and she coughed up a big phlegm ball with some cheese streaks in it and...
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    Silkie chick head wobble, insights appreciated!

    Hello everyone and thank you to those that can add some insight. Background: silkie chick 5 weeks old, orginally was purchased from a feed store with another to supplement my silkie broody whose eggs didn't hatch. Both chicks did not look good at the feed store, very small even for bantams and...
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    Mite/lice infestation not going away and some are broody hens with chicks to hatch in 72 hours

    Hello everyone, first I'd like to thank everyone who takes the time to read this and offer suggestions. Background: I recently had to move suddenly, and had a small window of time to rebuild my coop and run. Previously I had a large flight Avery 20x20x10 run with a 8x6 coop. In moving I...
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    Stunning Lavender Ameracauna Cockerels Free to Forever Home in Orange,CA

    Beautiful birds hatched 5-3-13 and raised by silkies. Eggs from Kim Crawford. Docile and friendly, beautiful coloring. Looking for a forever home with a flock of pullets to call their own. Raised together and very hard to part with but I have a showgirl roo that I'm breeding and have some...
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    Buff Silkie either broody or ill, I can't tell!

    Hello friends, looking for some advice. Yesterday a gentlemen came by and donated his beautiful Buff silkie hen, about a year, to me. He background: she was recently acquired a week ago by him from a family that was moving, and she was getting picked on by the three larger breeds she was raised...
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    Hello and good evening from beautiful Tustin, CA

    Hi Everyone, glad to join the community. I've had chickens since I was in grade school. Took some time off and now mid-thirties and getting ready to dive back in. I work with a local non profit providing an environment to learn about urban agriculture. I live on a large urban orchard. I'm...
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