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    Pullet attacked by dog. How do I treat the open wound?

    My 7 month old Americauna pullet was attacked by a dog this morning. I saw it happen and was able to chase the dog off immediately but couldn't find the chicken to treat her, she hid in the underbrush. Had to wait until she went into the coop this evening. The skin and peritoneum were torn...
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    Baby chick not bearing weight-please help!

    My 2 week old baby silkie is not bearing weight on it’s right foot. Not sure what happened, unaware of an injury. His feet look fine, I can’t feel any breaks or anything. He doesn’t show pain on palpating. His right knee joint is quite a bit larger than the other but the flesh itself doesn’t...
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    Mottled Silkies- Education needed- Please help!

    So I'm new to silkies, just hatched out 13 chicks last week and was stumped on what color a couple of my chicks were (I've got 2 chicks with similar coloring & feathering from the same pen). I've been told they are Mottled Silkies (Frizzled of course). But I'd never heard of Mottled Silkies...
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    Chicken Breeding Template

    Does anyone have a chicken breeding template that they like? I found one I REALLY like but it's not cheap. http://standalone.zooeasy.com/en/pedigree-software/breeding-poultry/breeders/features.html This is my first year with chickens, thought maybe there was a less expensive or preferably free...
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    Black Silkie Combs and other silkie standards for newbies

    I've got some Silkie/satin/frizzle eggs in my incubator right now from a well known breeder. She has beautiful birds! I'd like to show them with my 4-H'er. I don't know too much about the breeding standard, but the one major flaw that I've noticed in her pics are some red/pink combs. I was...
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    Are my chickens eating their eggs? Not laying in boxes. Help please?

    I'm new to raising chickens and we started with baby chicks this spring. A month ago we go our first egg and were so excited. We had a little bit of variety in the ages of our chicks. Our buff orpington is the oldest & pretty sure she was our first layer but she's been so intermittent. Then...
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    Newbie Intro- Hello y'all

    Hi guys, I'm MrsChicky55, I'm a newbie, this is my first year with chickens. I started out with a few barnyard mixes and: Black Copper Marans Welsummers Olive Eggers Americaunas Looking for a colorful egg basket but now I also want to improve my birds as I've found they aren't the exactly the...
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    Fermented Feeding options for less mess?

    I love using fermented feed for my chickens it's decreased my expenses quite a bit. However..... Fermented feed is REALLY messy. All my flock are dirty. I feel like this will increase the chances of my birds getting lice or mites. And my poor Polish!!! Every day is a bad hair day with...
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    High Humidity Please Help

    I purchased some silkie/satin eggs that were shipped to me. They've been in the incubator for 6 days now. This is my first time hatching chicks so I went ahead and added some water for humidity but the humidity in the incubator has been 60-70%. I wiped the moisture from the windows of the...
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    Do Black Copper Marans fair okay free ranging?

    I'm a new chicken mom, and I've been really quite surprised by how many of my BCM's I have lost and I'm wondering if maybe they shouldn't be allowed to free range or if there is some trick to raising them? I love the BCM's so I got 7 of them, I'm down to 3 (only 1 pullet left out of 4 darn!!!)...
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    Why are my chickens dying?

    I've had two 12 week old Black Copper Marans die suddenly in the last week. I saw no indications that they were ill prior- no lethargy, no lack of eating, etc... (and I'm a nurse). I just come in to check on them in the morning and they were dead. Both died with their heads craned back over...
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    Silkie sexing

    This is our 12 week old silkie. I know it's still early, but any guesses as to the sex? Thanks
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