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  1. MustangChick

    Silkie Chicken Eyes

    I've been raising silkies for a decade. Out of the blue, I hatch one with half gold/half black eyes. Has anyone else had this happen?
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    Silkie hen or roo?

    I’ve been thinking this is a little roo, but before I sell my other one, I want to be sure. It’s got the tiniest little walnut.
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    Breed?

    My partridge silkie hen has just hatched two of these. The father is either a black cochin (someone gave to me) or a buff silkie. Many, many silkies have come through my place and they all have had black beaks. Does anone have insight as to where the yellow beaks came from.
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    What do you call the color of this silkie chick?

    Her mother is a partridge and roo is a buff. There's gray in her tail and on her back under her wings.
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    Could there be something wrong with 8 month old Marans that hasn't begun laying?

    I got a batch of 6 chicks from Tractor Supply 8 months ago. All were supposed to be Marans. 4 were. Of those 4, 2 were hens. One of those began laying at about 6 months. The other two hens in the batch (an Australorp cross and a Gold Lace Wyandotte) also started laying at about 6 months. The...
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    Cockerel attacks family dog. Now what?

    We have a situation I haven't seen on here before, although I've been searching. I have 6 13-week olds (2 cockerels and 4 pullets from a straight run) that I raised from chicks with our family dogs. We've had chickens for quite awhile, so the dogs aren't phased by the chickens and roam the yard...
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    Can Anybody Tell What Gender These 7 Week Old Silkie Chicks Are?

    These chicks will be 7 weeks in a couple of days. Neither show any sign of a comb. The buff one is a little bigger than all the rest of the chicks in the group, but not much. I'm also wondering what color you might call the dark one. It started out shades of brown. Now it is mostly gray...
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    Cure for Diarrhea

    I have to have my hens on Baytril for 3 weeks for MS / MG (yes, they've been tested and they have both). This is their best shot at survival. The problem is that the antibiotics have given one of them raging diarrhea. The vet tried taking her off the AB for a few days to see if that would...
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    Is this chick a Marans?

    I had a previous post about a strange chick that chowed up in a lot of Marans chicks that I bought at Tractor Supply. I was lucky in that it was a lovely Gold Lace Wyandotte. This chick was also in the same batch. I'm wondering if it is a Marans, or some odd breed, as well. I've taken a...
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    Does Anyone Know What Breed / Gender This Chick Is?

    This chick is 5 weeks old. I bought a straight run lot of chicks at my local Tractor Supply. They were SUPPOSED to be all Cuckoo Marans. All of the others were black and white as expected. But does anyone know what this black chick with the copper head and copper feathers is? Also, I'm...
  11. MustangChick

    Dieing Hens

    We have (had) a very small flock. Six weeks ago, 1 of our hens got sick and about a week later, died. I had wormed her, fed her yogurt, buttermilk, scrambled eggs, anything I could possibly think of to entice her to eat...but she still died. Two weeks later, another one got sick. I took that...
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    sneezing and coughing with no drop in egg production

    I have a hen, approx 3 old, who has been sneezing and coughing with rattling breathing for about a week. I've been giving her oxytetracycline for 4 days and the labored breathing has, at last, showed signs of easing, thank goodness. But she's still sneezing up a storm. I'm assuming it's...
  13. MustangChick

    Favorite Chicken Stopped Laying While I Was Away

    Here's a weird question: I have a small flock of 5 chickens. My favorite "Nugget" (as in golden:) laid an egg every day since the day I got her 3 months ago. Then, I left for vacation. Apparently, that was it for her. She hasn't laid an egg since then. It's been two weeks. Can chickens get...
  14. MustangChick

    Black Stained Eggs

    My chicken lays black stained eggs. She hasn't always done this - just started when the mulberries peaked this season. She doesn't get many, only a few make it into the yard, but that's the only thing I can think of that would do this to her eggs. Does anyone else have any ideas? We've ruled...
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