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    Chooks need to chomp on something new...

    My Silkies are quite finicky They are a bit over one year. They do not free range however grit is provided for them. They have tired of the brown rice that they have mid afternoon and when I put cheese on it they scream in excitement and eat it up like it is candy. I realise cheese needs to be...
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    Pele's still..........

    Our 9 month old Silkie hen is still not her normal self. I think it is parasites that cannot be seen in her fecal matter. I believe she might be in between cycles as she is a bit better on pecking at her vent area as well as her vent is not constantly wet from passing a clear liquid out. She...
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    Internal issue possibilities

    Pele our lead Buff 9 month old Silkie hen seems distressed . She is irritable to her flock ,appears uncomfortable and usually she likes to be pet, not the last few days though. Her vent is wet yet upon obervation I cannot see anything else. Good chance that she passed greyish fecal matter. It...
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    Rock Away

    My Silkies are 8 months old and I finished up the last of the parakeet grit I had been using for them. I purchased regular grit for them thru a poultry supplier. It is much bigger in grain size and I do not feel comfortable offering to them,as it is much bigger than what worked for them. They...
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    Moving Day for the girls

    I need to get my SILKIE girls moved from run in garage to coop with 2 attached runs outside. I do not know the best /safest way to do it.I want to be sure they do not jump around so much that they break their necks or other parts. A few stayed very briefly in plasic dog carriers(hour or 2) and...
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    Mom's Chook Catery

    The kitchen is closed to all chooks,is what I would tell my darn chooks,IF they would just stop fussing long enough to listen............... I raised 5 children and I never saw such fussiness while raising them! My SILKIES must think I do special catering to them and they only exist and can...
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    Trouble In Paradise........

    my SILKIES have cut down drastically last 2/3 days on egg laying. Thereare 3 that are broody and one of those 3 has adopted the only box in run. They will be moved out shortly to new coop and run.I caught them eating an entire egg and yes I ck them very frequently and I provide calicum as...
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    Should I cluck or crow..........

    My 6 month old Silkie frets a bit differently than the rest of flock when a flockmate is ready to lay an egg. Puna ,the chook in question has a slight bump ,for lack of a better word on top of beak. My others in flock do not have it. Puna has far as I can tell does not have spurs(yet?) Puna...
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    Emergency Please Help Me......

    My 23 week old Silkie is sneezing or coughing. I do not see anything dripping or impairing her nasal passages. Should I purchase poly visol no iron store brand if I can get it and how do I get it in her? I am so worried ...................She ate a little banana this morning that I noticed...
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    what a Lady...........

    My 23 week old SILKIE just dropped the golden egg.Not a squawk,yelp,bok,screech,cackle,not a boo! She laid her very first egg of the flock and I saw the whole thing.She was very content and quiet. The rest of the flock left her to pass it and then she let them look at it .Their faces were like...
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    I feel like a DA

    I give my Silkies their feed 2x a day along with other food. My question is:am I supposed to moisten their feed? I currently feed them feed from Countryside(organic feed store). Feeling dumber than--------------- today!I read somewhere on a link off the byc blog that you are supposed to do that?!?!
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    It's all about "ME"

    Yesterday and last night and it seems ungoing my chicks have gone thru hell and back. I want to thank all you who are now sleeping of course for a very upsetting experience. I get it ,chickens have no rights,heck if I don't why should they have any. Thank you for the bombs bursting in air ,or...
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    HELP...........Coop and run issues

    The coop for my 18 week old SILKIES is still not completed. I had to change original plans as we had a heavier than usual rainfall and the site I wanted is not acceptable nor fixable due to the money it would involve to correct it. We are on lava ,some broken up most not.I purchased a solar...
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    Pele's pecularity

    Pele my leader 15 week old SILKIE might just be losing her mind and helping me to do the same. Every feed time and my general upkeep care, she checks out what I bring in the bowl as the rest do and runs away to the side of the run where I am,usually I am not close to the wire when she does...
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    Dusting Delirum

    I tried sand in their run inside a plastic cat litterpan,also tried just their pine shavings.In both I mixed 2 percent DE. The Dancing Queens tip toe around it.sit in it at night and balance on rim though not one of them dust themselves in it. Past experiences ,I had to demonstrate to go eat...
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    Cheesy Chooks Carnival

    My SILKIES flipped head over heels today over" CHEESE"! I never saw them like this before it was a circus! Singing,humming,dancing ,grunting, squawking,grabbing,running....they actually had to nap from it all. Usually when I give them their healthy supplemental food they will freeze up ,all of...
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    Some Crop Info please!

    My SILKIES have been without their feed one week approx .Long story short, feed store let me down,no feed for them .I have been giving them more "scraps" to make up for lack of their organic feed. I cook oatmeal early evening ,last feeding mix a banana and water in it and they scoff all...
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    Somebody dropped the ball..........

    The feed store that I get my organic chick starter/grower from does not have anymore. To say the least I am at my wits end. I called every darn number in our phone book,low and behold ... Nada! Since this item like all the rest of the poultry supplies comes in by barge and can take several...
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    A safe altative to mite spray

    My Silkies are in our garage in one of their runs until we finish up coop ventilation etc,hopefully real soon. Meantime back at the farm.......... should I already be using a preventative mtce product on the Silkies . They just turned 9 weeks old. I clean after them during the day and night ...
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    First aid kit for poultry

    BYC ER'S: Iam setting up my poultry first aid kit this week. As an initial start,I would like possibly the following items included in it unless I decide thru input that the item(s) are not needed and or safe or perhaps their is an equal to or better substitution : blood stop powder (although...
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