Thanks for any help you can give!
I had a silkie rooster with an awful case of fly strike a couple of months ago. (Fly strike = poop stuck in the feathers, which causes sores, where flies lay eggs and then maggots take over) He lost a good lot of his skin, but he's recovering just fine and...
I've got a bit of a dilemna and was hoping for advice from some of you more experienced chicken breeders. This is my second time raising chicks and first time using a hen (silkie). Four eggs, four chicks, but one has wry neck. It could be genetic (I've read silkie's are more prone...), but it...
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I have a Silkie Roo with a bad case of fly strike (maggots eating him from the outside in on his butt) this afternoon. It all happened super fast and we got him cleaned up, (hopefully) maggot free, doused in beta-dine, and in our sick-chicken cage. I'm going to keep on with the...