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    Golden Polish with Nerological problems? Any ideas?

    Our little Frodo is a golden polish, she has always been a bit weird as she has a very long neck and sleeps with her head upside down and between her legs. She has been getting even more strange tho, she started walking backwards with her head between her legs, then she started walking in...
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    One egg, Two Hens, Who will be the mommy? New Pics!

    I have a Silkie who has gone broody again. We took her eggs from her for several weeks but we finally gave in after awhile. Now our polish hen decided to go broody while babysittingwhile silkie was eating and dusting. Problems now is the Polish hen will not allow the silkie to have her egg back...
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    How many of you can do this with your silkie rooster?

    We named him Puppy originally but that was before we knew he liked to be held like a little baby. He will actually sit like this for a long time. Isnt he cute?
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    Can anyone donate silkie eggs for school?

    Our 6 year old boy is in kindergarden and his teacher is going to be incubating some eggs in April and we are supposed to provide the eggs, the problem is our roo must not be very fertile cuz our broody could not hatch eggs from our chicks. We would prefer some silkie eggs. They would be more of...
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    Moving Broody silkie inside? Any ideas?

    We are wanting to move our broody silkie inside for hatch time, Does anyone think moving the eggs and mom inside will upset her? We are worried about cold weather and other chickens causing injuries to babies.
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    Chicken Glaucoma? Any Ideas? Is it treatable?

    I was originally going to post this picture to ask if anyone thought she may be part silkie, but we noticed today she was blind in one eye, when I took this picture I found out why she is blind. We think it appears to be some sort of glaucoma but we thought we would ask those who love their...
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    Broody Silkie in very cold weather Any answers will help!

    We have one of our silkies has been on 4 eggs for 3 days now, she let me take them a few days prior but I figure if she is gonna try to hatch them I would let her try. This is her first time and ours, my question is the eggs had already been cold for at least a few hours, we try to keep our coop...
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    Addding New Rooster to flock, any suggestions??

    We had to rehome our polish roo yesterday, he was getting aggresive with my wife. We have 11 girls and a silkie roo. The silkie roo was very happy to take role as alpha male but we wanted to replace the polish with a Barred rock roo. The Cuckoo girls seem very excited to meet him but the silkie...
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    Egg color questions

    We have 2 polish hens and 2 silkie hens, the polish have been laying for awhile and one silkie just laid her first egg, We are wondering how long it will take for the eggs to be white instead of pink.
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    Polish Rooster with split and bleeding spur, Any Ideas how to fix it?

    Our Rooster has a spur that was split in half and bleeding, we put some Blue Kote on it and a bandage but he still stands on one leg as if in pain. Does anyone have any ideas that would be helpful for him to relieve the pain? Should we give him some anti-biotic water to help prevent infection?
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    Rooster with bloody head

    We noticed yesterday our rooster had a small blood chunk on his head, he is a polish, only other rooster is a young silkie. The polish is the head honcho and even tries to prrove himself to the kids, but today we noticed his head had quite a bit of blood on it. We are going to bring him in...
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    Hen laid soft egg now acts like she wants to lay again?

    My polish hen has laid 4 out of 5 days now but today she laid a soft egg and now she is acting like she has to lay another egg. Is it possible for the shell to be stuck or something? We are gonna give her a bath because she has some yolk on her butt. She wanders out of the yard when she wants to...
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    Is my rooster angry? help please

    My rooster gets his feathers all ruffled up then stops his feet at us if he did not get let out of the coop early or if a stranger comes over. He seems to be doing it even more lately. Does this mean he is angry with us? Sometimes he will either step on our feet or peck at our feet. He kinda...
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    Nesting Curious Rooster?

    I am not sure why but after 2 weeks of having a nesting box in the coop one hen and the rooster both decided to try it for a bed tonight. We thought it was pretty funny so we wanted to share it. Also wanted to share the other hen who likes to play in the rain!
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    What kind of chicken is this?

    Someone said maybe white cornish bantam but the pics I saw of cornish didnt have the bright yellow legs? Anyother guesses? Is it a breed that is always crazy or is mine special? Not one who likes to be picked up for sure?
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    What kind of chicken is this?

    One of my boys picked this chicken out when we were getting our silkies and we have no idea what it is. The lady just said we know its a bantam for sure but they didnt know what breed it was. It is not user friendly at all. Hates to be picked up or even touched. We really have a hard time...
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    Small woodchip in two month old chick's eye.......now puffy, watery

    This morning we noted a small wood chip in our chick's eye. We promptly removed it but now it is watery and swollen. Is there any eye ointment we should use to prevent infection beyond this irritation? Thanks so much. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Kelly
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    Sick Polish chick help please!!!

    We have a sick chicken possible bochilism. We tried epsom salt and water mix but does anyone know how long it takes for the bird to show signs of recovery or die? Any other ideas of how to treat it? Any help soon would be great. Thank you.
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    Sick chicken - need help now!

    I have a three month old female Polish who is just not acting normal for herself. She is very weak appearing, walking with wings haninging low, shallow audible breaths, not drinking much, laying down with her head on the ground. Should this hen be separated from our other two chickens she...
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    4 weeks old outside? temperature questions?

    I had them outside for over 2 hours yesterday and they loved it. The average overnight temp is high 30's to low 40's. Daytime temps 60-70.I built an indoor coop in my shed any ideas of how soon I can leave them out there? They are white crested polish if breed makes any difference. I will leave...
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