today I cleaned the coop and she was acting just fine then I let them out in the late afternoon and noticed she was in a corner of the run not moving. She is a white Silkie hen about 6 months old. I thought she was egg bound but she is eating and drinking. She is panting and not moving around a...
today I cleaned the coop and she was acting just fine then I let them out in the late afternoon and noticed she was in a corner of the run not moving. She is a white Silkie hen about 6 months old. I thought she was egg bound but she is eating and drinking. She is panting and not moving around a...
I have a splash silkie hen that when I got her had a huge crest. Eventually one day she got it all dirty and I had to clean it, some of the stuff didn't come off but she molted around November so I figured it would grow back, she still hasnt gotten her feathers and I have a show that I signed...
I recently bought a four month old silkie chick which they were 90% sure was a pullet, she is starting to get some streamers and has shiny neck feathers which makes me think its a roo but then she is very submissive and her comb is very very small. Also I recently had silkie chicks hatch out and...
my entire flock has a worms outbreak I took one Silkie to the vet and she had a lot of worms. The rest of the flock also has worms. I bought safeguard dewormer for goats but I’m not sure how much to give them. I have silkies in one coop and normal sized chickens in the other, they all have...
I have this silkie chick that’s a few weeks old I noticed that it’s bent was prolapsed a few days ago. I separated it and have been feeding it hard boiled egg yolk, with yogurt and wet chickstarter. It eats off of my finger but I have not seen it eat or drink on it’s own. I have been putting...
I have one silkie hen that I bought like two weeks ago. She was still young and hadn't started to lay. eggs but you could tell that she was a hen. My friend also bough a hen from the same group of silkies (they all hatched from the same parents at the same time). My friends silkie is already...
We bought a silkie hen and rooster a few months ago. The rooster I bought with her with is doing fine. They were both still young (she hadn't started laying eggs yet). She was always small and timid and usually didn't run around much. She was always very apprehensive to even walk out of the...
A few months ago I bought 7 new hens while there was a cold front coming in. All seven hens got sick with a respiratory disease and at the same time they were at the bottom of the pecking order. They got really sick and started to have a rattle in their breathing, were sneezing, had bubbles in...
Hi I have about 6 or 7 hens suck with some sort I respiratory infection, (bubbly eyes, mucus, raspy voice/breathing, and eyes a little swollen on some of them) I bought some Tylan 50 with some syringes but I’m not sure how much to give them or where to inject them, my syringes are in mL so it...
Yesterday I had one chicken with half of her face swollen (mainly her cheek, and her eye is half shut) because I think that another older hen pecked her, but I'm not so sure. Today I have another hen that's a little bit smaller with her eye swollen shut and her cheek swollen too. I'm pretty sure...
I have a new hen that was most likely pecked by one of the older hens and she has an eye injury, half of her face is swollen and I'm not sure what to do please help, I am open to any suggestions. And yes her beak was cut off when she was little, I didn't do that to her and I wouldn't do that to...
My rooster attack just about everyone he see's not including me, he also attacks cats and soccerballs. I was told that when I hatched out chicks to always keep the rooster sperate because he would kill the chicks, but when I introduced him to his children he did the complete opposite, he started...
Two of my hens, one hatched out 2 and the other 6, hatched out chicks in May and today the chicks are a little over 19 weeks old but the mother hens are still taking care of them. For example they still all sleep around her on the floor of the coop, she still calls them for food, and she still...
This isn't an emergency and my rooster has already had this for about a week I just want to know how I should treat it if at all. Also would like to know what you think caused it. Thanks for your help.
I have a two day old chick that hatched late. When I went to put it with his mother and the rest of the chicks, the mother pecked it. Eventually I snuck it under her at night, but when i found it in the morning it was in a corner bleeding. The chick has 3 open wounds 1 of which is severe. The...
I have a two day old chick that hatched late. When I went to put it with his mother and the rest of the chicks, the mother pecked it. Eventually I snuck it under her at night, but when i found it in the morning it was in a corner bleeding. The chick has 3 open wounds 1 of which is severe. The...