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    Hen passed blood clot & weird egg membrane

    Hey all. Yesterday my hopes of having a quiet Christmas were dashed when I woke up to find a blood trail under my silkie Pluisje's vent. She had laid an egg a few hours earlier, and I found a pingpong-ball sized blob of clotted blood and mucus sitting near her. When I took her to the bathroom to...
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    What to feed no-appetite hen w/ coccidiosis while I wait for medication?

    Hey guys, I left my house on Wednesday morning and came home Wednesday evening to a listless hen who wouldn’t eat anything. After vet examination on Thursday and a fecal float on Friday, the conclusion was: coccidiosis. It’s the first case of that I’ve ever had in my flock; previous hens have...
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    Can’t get bully to stop bothering her mother

    Hey all, I’ve always had a very small flock in the backyard, about 3-4 chickens. When one of them died two years ago,I borrowed a rooster & let one of the remaining hens, a big, dominating, perma-broody silkie/wyandotte cross, hatch an egg. The resulting baby was a little feisty but integrated...
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    Chicken limping/sitting a lot

    Hi guys, I'm a bit worried about one of my chickens. She was rejected from the flock at birth and has lived inside for the past seven years. This weekend, I noticed she was sitting on her pillow more often, and she would whine and cry if I put her in her bathtub (a bucket, where she also gets...
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    7 week old Silkie cross

    Yes, yes. I know at this age and for a Silkie cross (Wyandotte mother, Silkie father) it's probably a guessing game, but I only have the one chick, and if it's not a pullet, I'll have to take it to someone else. So far I've been thinking/hoping pullet-- there's no strutting their stuff going on...
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    Swollen behind, no other symptoms?

    Hey all, So my house chicken - part silkie, part Wyandotte and some other stuff - has had a somewhat swollen behind for about a week and a half now. It starts right at the end of her breastbone. It doesn't quite feel like water, but it doesn't feel hard, either. Otherwise, she's completely...
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    Chicken making strange wheezing noises

    Help! I just woke up to my indoor chicken making the strangest wheezing noises on each breath, kind of like a rusty hinge... she's eating and drinking normally, but with the occasional sneeze. And the constant, hinge-y wheezing. I'm really worried. She's a three year old silkie cross who's...
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    New chicken in flock isn't eating

    Hi everyone, I have a backyard flock that's gotten whittled down to three hens over the years. One of them is a real bully, the others are fine. Our neighbor has a single silkie hen. She's gone on vacation starting Monday, and decided to leave her hen with us so she won't be alone, since our...
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    Silkie Cross gender?

    Hey all, So about two months ago, one of our hens passed away. Since that only left us with two girls and one boy, we decided to take a gamble and hatch one of the eggs. (We know a home if it's a roo, which we can't keep.) Baby Troubble is now 9.5 weeks old, and half-Silkie (the roo)...
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    Steps for moving 5 week old chick to coop?

    So a while ago, we mistimed putting a particular egg under a broody hen and she hatched late. Since the hen didn't want to take care of the chick, we decided to raise her in a brooder indoors. She's gotten very used to people since then and doesn't seem to be sure how to deal with other...
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    Hello there!

    Hi! Longterm forum lurker from the Netherlands here. :) We have technically 'had' chickens for ten years now, when a hen from a flock a fair few blocks away escaped and settled in our yard. We don't know what breed she is & refer to her as 'the wild chicken' - she's still alive but she's turned...
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