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    My Hen Burned Her Foot

    I have about an 8 month old silkie who was out foraging with the flock this evening when she squeezed her way out of the Designated Chicken Area and into the area of the yard where I had burned some tree branches earlier in the day. Long story short, the silly little thing got spooked by the...
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    Weird Broody (Maybe) Behavior

    I have a broody silkie hen. I tried the whole putting her in a wire cage thing for four days (didn't break her), but she ended up scratching on the wire and causing abrasions on her foot. Now I'm treating bumblefoot in her and just letting her be broody while I do so. The swelling in her...
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    Can Chickens Get Water in Their Ears?

    I realize this is an odd question, but since I'm puzzled, I'm asking it anyway. Ok, on to the background. We have a silkie hen, Ella, who's about sixteen months old now. She's an indoor chicken who lives with the two grown chicks she hatched, both hens. The day before yesterday my...
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    Rooster Behavior

    Three questions about my roosters. I have one bantam cochin roo and five silkies. First one . . . . I was in the coop collecting eggs and fixing a few nest boxes when my buff silkie rooster Lou wandered in and sat down. He kind of scratched around a bit like he was making a nest in the wood...
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    The Story of Ella, The Chicken Who Ate Everything

    This is Mozzarella, Ella for short: The picture is a pretty accurate one of her behavior, as she's a mischievous and sweet little bird. Why lay eggs in the nest when you can tip it over? She's one of my house silkies, bought to be a companion to Thunderhead, who was a bit disabled and...
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    When Do They Become Regular Layers?

    This has probably been asked, but I'm probably putting the wrong words in the search engine .... I had one nineteen to twenty-week-old RIR lay an egg Tuesday (or maybe Wednesday), but nothing since. She doesn't even show anymore interest in the nest boxes like she was, so I'm assuming there's...
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    No Emergency -- Just a Chick That Poops on Itself

    I am the proud (maybe grossed out is better) owner of Pinto, the Most Disgusting Chicken in the World. It's a silkie, about eight weeks old. It had a slight case of pasty butt after we brought our silkie chicks home and currently has no tail feathers or really any feathers surrounding its vent...
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    Lethargic Chicken with Diarrhea

    Thunderhead is a nine-week-old silkie we've been battling illness with since Sunday evening. He appeared fine Sunday morning when we left to take my oldest daughter to camp. When we got back about four hours later, he was just lying in the covered portion of the chicken yard when I went in to...
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    Cochins -- I Think I Have Two Pullets and a Roo here ....

    ..... but I'm new to chickens. My eighteen-year-old fell in love with the cochins at the breeder where we got our silkies. He came home with three. The blue has started growing quite the comb and just the tiniest of wattle is visible while the two blacks have tiny little bumps for combs and...
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    Loving This Site!

    Hello! I've only had chickens since the beginning of April and have learned a lot from this site. We got started with chickens when my parents decided to start raising them on their acreage. They are raising Rhode Island Red, Australorp, Silver Wyandotte, and some black star and gold star...
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