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    Broody Hen shaking/diahreea

    Hello, I have a broody hen who just hatched six healthy chicks. I noticed she was shaking a little bit, but thought that, as a banti, she was high strung and twitchy. She is very skiddish. I got a call today from my younger sister informing me that the hen is really trembling and keeps -...
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    Chicks have mites?

    Hello, all. I had a large, healthy batch of little chicks this summer, and they all seem to be growing, happy, and healthy. Today, I noticed that my Nankin mix banti had patches of feathers missing on his back. One of his nest mates has similar patches, although I only noticed them when I...
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    Chick's slow decline in mobility.

    In November, I had a uncommonly late hatch for my flock. My silkie/game mix hatched a single chick of her own, and because of the harsh New England weather conditions, we've kept her inside. The chick grew very healthy; s/he has perky eyes, is alert, and, up until last week, was up and about in...
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    Identify me!

    So, I purchased four Nankin chicks, another Nankin roo, and a Nankin hen. This massive chick was in the mix, and I couldn't leave her/him. The owner of the farm said that they had been given the mystery chick (they take in unwanted birds). So, I'm trying to figure out what it is exactly.
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    Gender Guessing Time...

    My mix-breed chicks are around 3 months, and I've found this to be a good time to put in the guesses as to who's what. First up... This one is descended from a silkie/game bantam/Golden Sexlink line. Judging from her waddle and comb, in comparison with some of her sibs, I think this might be a...
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    Mystery Bantam

    I bought a couple of bantis and silkie mixes from a farm. Unfortunately, all but three were killed off in a fox attack. In any case, I've found that my two mixes are Silkie/Polish, but this guy I'm not sure on. I was told by the owner that he was a pure breed, but I cannot remember the name...
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    Strange Chick Born

    I have a large fowl hen, of silkie, game, and sex-link linage, who has been setting for a long time, well over 21 days. She is new to setting, and a few times I had to take her off the nest so that she could eat, drink, and let the eggs cool. Well, today she hatched a chick, and I gotta say...
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    Sudden Death of White Rock Pullet

    This has NOT been a good chicken year for me, from fox massacres to strange deaths. Yesterday, I noticed that one of my two White Rock pullets, "Mildred", was acting very strange. She was just standing with her eyes closed, while her sisters were running around the yard. She herself had been...
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    Small "Large Fowl"

    I have several large fowl hens, including Rhode Island Reds, Silver Laced Wyndottes, and Barred Rocks. I've always thought of them as large chickens, but upon looking at websites with pictures of the same birds, as well as visiting friends with chicken flocks, I've noticed that, in comparison...
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    Which Roosters should I keep?

    Finally, I have found someone who will take my 19 roosters off of my hands. I have chosen, of the lot, four bantis to keep. I am also helping my friend give away his roosters, of which he has six: two Black Langshans(sp?), a Brown Leghorn, and three Cuckoo Marans. Since I have large fowl hens, I...
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    Two silkies down, one with leg problems

    Well, I've posted before about my silkie chicks that I got last year. I started with five; two blue or splash silkies, a black silkie, a gray or splash silkie, and a white splash silkie. Here's how the math went: 1 - Lifted off the ground by hawk and then dropped. Minus one blue silkie. 1 -...
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    The Reven Silkies

    Okay, it's been a few months since I made the post on my five silkies. Well, since then, it's been reduced to four, since a bastardly hawk picked one up, flew high up, and then dropped it, which made me get really, really ticked. Anyway, here are updated pictures of the four survivors. What sex...
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    Why Chickens Depress Me.

    As I've said before, I have too many darn roosters. They kill hens, they beat each other up, they're just monsters. I had two broody hens underneath the shed, and I couldn't catch them. These are old silkie-cross hens, very good hens, and they're more like pets. They've been brooding for 20...
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    Silkie Combs?

    How big does a silkie hen's comb and waddle typically get? I'm just curious, because I just got seven young silkies, and, as I've found out, they're difficult to sex. What signs should I be looking for?
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    Help Me Identify Silkie Chick Sexes!

    EDIT: Can someone move this to Breeds? I messed up the placement... I just bought five silkie chicks from a friend. They are a mixed bunch, from Murray McMurray, probably splash, white, gray, and black. Also added in the mix were two chicks who had trouble walking. They couldn't rehabilitate...
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    My Hobby is Becoming a Nightmare!

    I take good care of my chickens, and I enjoy raising them. Now, I have 70 chickens, but now after four years of breeding, I have more roosters than hens! I don't know what to do. I've tried giving them away to good homes, but no one really wants roosters. And then they all started killing hens...
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    Chick Cannibalism

    Two weeks ago, I had four chicks hatch. In the following four days, ten more hatched. There's one chick, a little black silkie mix who was born second, who keeps pecking at the younger chicks' toes and eyes. So far, one little barred rock has the skin all raw on the side of its face, and another...
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    Egg Addiction Is Killing My RIR Hen.

    The title is a bit humorus, but this condition my hen, Egg Smasher, that has afflicted my hen is starting to become serious. I did what I was told to do by chicken books: seperate the hen in order to break her addiction. For two weeks before I moved her, she had been spending most of her time...
  19. AthamGI

    Woodchips

    I have 61 chickens. My problem is that they go through woodchips in a few days, and it's expensive to buy woodchips every few days. Is there anything that works better for a longer period of time?
  20. AthamGI

    My Predetor Problem

    Okay, I posted this on the other site... Let me re-hash. I have 62 chickens in a double coop with a run extending from the front, and a second run extending from the side. In the past two weeks, I lost a total of nine chickens, five to oldage/diease and four to some kind of predetor. The first...
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